Archive for January, 2007
Saturday, January 27th, 2007
Vitor Oliveira Jorge, EAA member and Professor of Archaeology at Porto, has launched his own blog containing all sorts of information on archaeological events but also music and some of his own poetry. Most is in Portuguese.
http://trans-ferir.blogspot.com/
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Friday, January 26th, 2007
Nature has an update on the Turkish site of Allianoi that will soon be flooded because of the construction of the Yortanli dam. The EAA has been involved in the efforts to save this important archaeological site.
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Thursday, January 25th, 2007
From time to time we are offering to readers of this blog books for review in the European Journal of Archaeology. Here is another one:
Anybody interested in reviewing this title...
Ireland and Europe in the Twelfth Century: Reform and Renewal
edited by Damian Bracken and Dagmar Ó Riai-Raedel
...should email me (klatmk@hum.au.dk) as ...
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Friday, January 19th, 2007
Willem Willems has asked us to issue this call for nominations for The European Archaeological Heritage Prize 2007:
The European Association of Archaeologists instituted the European Archaeological Heritage Prize in 1999. An independent committee awards the prize annually to an individual, institution or (local or regional) government for an outstanding contribution ...
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Wednesday, January 17th, 2007
More details are now available on the upcoming EAA Annual Meeting 18-23 September 2007 in Zadar, Croatia, including information on how to submit session and round table proposals:
The meeting is planned in three thematic blocks:
- Managing the Archaeological Record and the Cultural Heritage
- Archaeology and the Modern World: Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives
- Archaeology ...
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Monday, January 15th, 2007
We've received the following announcement from Susan Piddock:
WAC Inter-Congress: Archaeological Invisibility and Forgotten Knowledge
University of Lodz, Poland
5-8 September, 2007
Vast amounts of cultural customs, traditions, material expressions and cosmological universes escape the trowels of archaeologists. The aim of this conference is to focus on this invisible web of reality that formed ...
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Monday, January 8th, 2007
We have received the following call for abstracts for a session to be held at the 13th EAA Annual Meeting in Zadar, Croatia 18-23 September 2007:
Ceramic through the Millennia: methods, approaches, results
The session is devoted to the all aspects of ceramic studies from methods of recovery and preservation to ...
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Saturday, January 6th, 2007
The following books have arrived on the Book Review Editor’s desk but will, for one reason or another, not be reviewed in the journal.
Kyriakidis, Evangelos (2006) Ritual in the Bronze Age Aegean: The Minoan Peak Sanctuaries. London: Duckworth. 216 pp., hbk, ISBN 0-7156-3248-5. £45.
Kyriakidis' book approaches Minoan peak sanctuaries from ...
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Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007
We have received the following call for papers:
Contributions are currently being sought for a planned edited volume IN ENGLISH on changes in the memorial landscape of eastern Europe since the collapse of communism (edited by Bill Niven and Stuart Burch).
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