Archive for the ‘News’ Category
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. ...
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Monday, July 24th, 2006
A message from Andrea Vianello announcing the launch of Intute:
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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 ...
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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.
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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!
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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
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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.
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