Archive for October, 2007

New Books (not to be reviewed)

Thursday, October 25th, 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. Pollars, Mark, Batt, Catherine, Stern, Ben and Young, Suzanne (2007) Analytical Chemistry in Archaeology. Cambridge Manuals in Archaeology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-65572-9. Pbk. 418pp. Various ...

Summer School on 3D Modeling in Archaeology

Sunday, October 21st, 2007

Stefano Campana informs us about an international summer school on '3D Modeling in Archaeology' in May 2008: We would like to bring your attention to the International School in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage that we're organizing in May 2008, in Ascona, Switzerland. The School will face the problem of the ...

CHAT 2007 in Sheffield

Friday, October 19th, 2007

James Symonds gives this update on the forthcoming CHAT (Contemporary and Historical Archaeology in Theory) conference in Sheffield: The conference will be held in the Showroom Cinema, in the heart of Sheffield's Cultural Industries Quarter, from 23rd-25th Nov 2007 and will include a keynote address by Professor Henry Glassie of ...

War, Politics and Archaeology

Friday, October 12th, 2007

One of the ambitions of this blog is to publicize and further discuss the reviews published in the European Journal of Archaeology. In issue 9 (1), Susan Pollock of Binghamton University, USA, reviewed these two volumes: Benjamin R. Foster, Karen Polinger Foster and Patty Gerstenblith, Iraq Behind the Headlines: History, Archaeology, and ...

New Books (not to be reviewed)

Monday, October 8th, 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. Little, Barbara (2007) Historical Archaeology. Why the past matters. Walnut Creek: Left Coast Press. ISBN 978-1-59874-023-3. Pbk. 208 pp. 11 figs. £12.99 An affordable introduction to historical archaeology ...

CFP: Radiocarbon and Archaeology

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007

Radiocarbon and Archaeology, 5th International Symposium 26-28th March 2008, Zurich, Switzerland Nearly 60 years after the publication of the first radiocarbon ages, the radiocarbon dating method has become the key dating tool in archaeology. Recent years have brought new developments in radiocarbon dating, which are of great interest to archaeologists. Moreover, the ...