Archive for the ‘News’ Category

Europa Nostra Awards 2008: Call for Entries

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 ...

TEA 27 published

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 ...

Stone Age TV

Saturday, May 19th, 2007

Next week, German television starts a new Docu-Soap about the Stone Age... Some interesting webpages about the Stone Age accompany the series. Among other things, there is talk about 'real Stone Age atmosphere' ("richtiges Steinzeit-Gefühl"), whatever that may be. To find out whether these programmes immerse the participants similarly deep ...

New best practice guide for the marine historic environment

Thursday, April 26th, 2007

A press release from COWRIE: Wessex Archaeology Ltd, commissioned by COWRIE Ltd, has produced a guidance to promote the development of best practice in relation to the marine historic environment for the offshore renewable energy sector. With the emergence of offshore renewables as a growing industry sector, and an increased awareness of ...

Memories of Müll

Monday, April 23rd, 2007

"Thank you for littering" - "Danke, dass ihr Müll macht", steht in Gold auf seinem T-Shirt. Justin Gignac freut sich, wenn Leute ihren Abfall einfach auf der Straße fallen lassen. Denn er macht Geld damit. Packt mehrere ausgewählte Stücke in einen 10 x 10 Zentimeter großen Plexiglaswürfel und versiegelt ihn. ...

New Institute for European and Mediterranean Archaeology (IEMA)

Tuesday, March 6th, 2007

The State University of New York at Buffalo has founded an interdisciplinary Institute for European and Mediterranean Archaeology. Among their ambitions is to "establish and maintain the University at Buffalo as a leading national and international center for research and teaching in the archaeology of the European and Mediterranean areas". ...

The Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology

Tuesday, February 20th, 2007

The Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology is pleased to announce the launch of its new website: http://www.spma.org.uk Please take a moment to bookmark this link and have a look at the new features including: - link to our RSS feed to keep up to date with all the latest news and events ...

Vitor’s blog

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/

Allianoi soon to be flooded

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.

Music archaeology

Saturday, November 25th, 2006

The 5th Symposium of the International Study Group on Music Archaeology, "Challenges and Objectives in Music Archaeology", was held at the Ethnological Museum Berlin, September 19-23, 2006. Click here to download the program and abstracts.