Archive for January, 2008

Review offer

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

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… Celts on the Margin. Studies in European Cultural Interaction 7th ct BC - 1st ct AD. Dedicated to Zenon Woźniak. Edited by ...

Bibracte European School of Protohistory

Sunday, January 27th, 2008

An announcement from Vincent Guichard: The next session of the Bibracte European School of Protohistory will be held in Budapest, from July 7th to 15th 2008, on the theme of "The Construction of European Iron Age Chronologies." The attached call for application has already been sent to our network of researchers ...

Review Offer

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

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… Bilder vom Menschen der Steinzeit: Untersuchungen zur anthropomorphen Plastik der Jungsteinzeit und Kupferzeit in Südosteuropa by Svend Hansen (2007, 2 vols, Zabern, ...

Call for Nominations: The European Archaeological Heritage Prize 2008

Monday, January 21st, 2008

Willem Willems has asked us to issue this call for nominations for The European Archaeological Heritage Prize 2008: CALL FOR NOMINATIONS 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 government (local or regional) for an outstanding ...

CFP: Bioarchaeology of Individual Life Histories

Sunday, January 20th, 2008

We have received the following CFP for a session at the EAA Annual Meeting 2008 on Malta from Marek Zvelebil and Andrzej Weber: Bioarchaeology of individual life histories The field of archaeological science is rapidly expanding. This growth includes laboratory methods for examination of human skeletal remains such as stable isotope ...

Archaeological summer camp in Siciliy

Saturday, January 19th, 2008

Emilia Bella writes: For 10th year the Archeoclub d’Italia, residing in Campobello di Licata of Sicily, will be organizing a Summer Camp, which in the past has succeeded in having more than 900 foreign and Italian participants involved in a holiday full of sun, sea and archaeological discoveries. The Summer Camps ...

CFP: Wetland Archaeology and Movement

Friday, January 18th, 2008

We have received from the following calls for papers from Andrea Vianello: I am co-organising two sessions - one was not enough - that will be held at the forthcoming sixth World Archaeological Congress, WAC-6 Congress. Both sessions are registered under the theme "Wetland Archaeology Across the World". They are ...

Mark Hall: Speculum Fantasia - Middle-Earth and Discworld as Mirrors of Medieval Europe

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

This blog entry is a slightly amended version of the paper given at the EAA Annual Meeting in Zadar, Croatia, September 2007. It was read at the session on Invented Civilisations organised by Cornelius Holtorf and Michael Jasmin. It is presented here to give a flavour of part of ...

Call for papers: Interpreted Iron Ages

Monday, January 14th, 2008

Case studies, method, theory 3. Linzer Gespräche zur interpretativen Eisenzeitarchäologie Oberösterreichisches Landesmuseum Linz, Austria 14 – 16 November 2008 The aims of European Iron Age archaeologies are not only to classify material remains of the Iron Age past according to typological and chronological frameworks, but also to explain the societies that produced these remains. ...

Free access to online archaeology journals

Saturday, January 12th, 2008

Maney Publishing offers a 30 days free trial to its online archaeology and heritage journals. You need to fill in a simple form here. Choose access to the "Archaeology Collection". You will get access to the following periodicals: Arms and Armour Volume 3, Number 1, Spring 2006 - Volume 4, Number ...