Archive for the ‘News’ Category

Industrial Heritage 2006

Sunday, August 6th, 2006

A press release: First European contact weekend for industrial heritage volunteers and associations Beringen, 7 - 8 oktober 2006 In every European country the research in and study, recording, conservation, development and management, and interpretation of Industrial and Technical Heritage largely depends on the initiatives and works of volunteers and volunteer NGOs. ...

Announcing Intute

Monday, July 24th, 2006

A message from Andrea Vianello announcing the launch of Intute:

Anglo-Saxon Apartheid?

Sunday, July 23rd, 2006

The question of how a relatively small number of Anglo-Saxon immigrants came to control early Medieval Britain has received much attention. New interdisciplinary research, published by Mark G. Thomas, Michael P.H. Stumpf and Heinrich Härke, argues that their success was due to the implementation of an Apartheid-like social structure that ...

WAC 6 in Jamaica cancelled

Friday, July 21st, 2006

Claire Smith, President of the World Archaeological Congress, announced that WAC 6 will not take place in Jamaica next year (as reported previously) but instead in 2008 at a location to be publicised soon.

Archaeology of a van starts on Monday

Saturday, July 15th, 2006

The fast emerging field of Contemporary Archaeologies appears to stop at nothing: a small research project will begin on Monday investigating the former archaeology unit van at Ironbridge. And this is precisely the point - anything could be studied archaeologically!

Recently unearthed e-mail reveals what life was like in 1995

Saturday, July 8th, 2006

A report in the Onion: "We're very excited by this find, because only by understanding our e-mail past can we hope to understand our e-mail present and future," said Northwestern University archaeology professor Lane Caspari, who has been leading the dig through the equipment storage area of a Knoxville-area credit union ...

TEA published

Tuesday, June 27th, 2006

The European Archaeologist (TEA), the newsletter of the EAA, has just been published again. Issue 25 contains, among others, a short report by our President Anthony Harding about "That Bosnian Pyramid" and an obituary of Andrew Sherratt who died last year. Once the webpage is updated, EAA members can access TEA ...

EAA supports professional archaeologists in Bosnia-Herzegovina

Tuesday, June 20th, 2006

Following a visit to Sarajevo by the President, Secretary and Administrator, the EAA affirms its support for the small community of professional archaeologists in Bosnia-Herzegovina and urges the authorities, both cantonal, federal and state, to uphold the standing of the profession by providing adequate resources for museums, rescue archaeology and ...

Qudad, Re-inventing a Tradition

Sunday, June 18th, 2006

Brittany Gravely of Documentary Educational Resources in Watertown, Massachusetts, USA made me aware of a documentary film: Qudad, Re-inventing a Tradition by Caterina Borelli Arabic with English subtitles color, 58 min, 2004

Images, Representations and Heritage

Sunday, June 11th, 2006

Ian Russell announces the publication of "Images, Representations and Heritage: Moving beyond Modern Approaches to Archaeology", the proceedings from a session at the EAA Annual Meeting 2004 in Lyon. Further information is available here.