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Saturday, February 2nd, 2008
8. International Archaeology-Film-Festival
April 23th - 26th, 2008, Kiel, Germany
The theme of the CINARCHEA symposium 2008 is:
"Archaeology – Movie – Museum"
As always, the symposium will facilitate communication and discussion, the exchange of ideas, perspectives and knowledge: participating will be archaeologists, filmmakers, heads of museums and other institutes, journalists and media-experts.
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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 ...
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Monday, November 5th, 2007
SAGE, the publisher of the European Journal of Archaeology, is currently offering free online access to all their journals until 30 November:
You can now register for free online access to over 460 SAGE journals until November 30, 2007! Register here.
Registration takes only seconds and then you can access all 460+ ...
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Sunday, July 22nd, 2007
A book on "Quality Management in Archaeology", edited by Willem Willems and Monique van den Dries and arising out of a recent session at the EAA Annual Meeting in Cork has just been published:
Quality Management in Archaeology deals with the effects of the profound changes that have had an ...
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Thursday, July 19th, 2007
In 2006, Peter Ucko was presented with a festschrift, A Future for Archaeology, edited by Robert Layton, Stephen Shennan and Peter Stone.
In memory of Professor Ucko, Left Coast Press Inc. would like to offer this festschrift to the members of the World Archaeological Congress for a minimal purchase price. ...
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Sunday, July 15th, 2007
A classic archaeological parody by Hans Traxler is available again in a cheap German Reclam edition. "Die Wahrheit über Hänsel und Gretel" (The Truth about Hansel and Gretel) was inspired by Ceram's "Götter, Gräber und Gelehrte" (Gods, Graves and Scholars) and first published in 1963. This new edition even contains ...
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Wednesday, June 20th, 2007
Peter Ucko died in London on 14 June 2007.
He was the driving force behind the founding of the World Archaeological Congress. More recently, he was Executive Director of the Institute of Archaeology at University College London and had only recently retired.
Peter Ucko cannot be replaced, but he will ...
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Friday, June 15th, 2007
All of John Bintliff's (Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands) publications up to spring 2007 can now be accessed as pdfs by personal application to him at j.l.bintliff@arch.leidenuniv.nl.
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Monday, June 11th, 2007
Europa Nostra has published a call for entries to their 2008 awards:
EUROPA NOSTRA AWARDS 2008
Over the past 5 years, Europa Nostra has been running the EU Prize for Cultural Heritage in the context of the European Commission’s Culture 2000 programme. On 7 November 2006 the European Commission published a ...
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Monday, June 4th, 2007
The 27th edition of The European Archaeologist is now available in the member’s section of the EAA website. Among many interesting items, it includes reports from archaeological field projects in Etruria and Romania as well as news blurbs from various research groups throughout Europe.
With the publication of this issue, TEA ...
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