This academic year I am on sabbatical leave finishing three long-running projects and planning to focus more on applications of the archaeological imagination to matters of common and pressing contemporary concern, especially through design foresight and futures literacy. This is why I have put to one side my critical commentary on all things archaeological and…
pedagogy
On Archaeology, Teaching and Excavation Practice: An interview with Peter Carne
Peter Carne, Archaeological Services, Durham University, UK Archaeolog: Peter, you are the manager of Archaeological Services Durham University and you are currently running excavations at Binchester, a Roman Fort just above the River Wear near Bishop Auckland. This year the project involves university students from Durham, Stanford, Texas Tech, and a host of other colleges…
Teaching Geophysics to the Next Generation of Archaeologists: A Developing Pedagogical Model at Brown University
Thomas M. Urban As non-destructive geophysical methods become an increasingly popular tool for archaeological investigations for reasons of economy and site preservation, educational programs struggle to incorporate these methods into the standard archaeological curriculum. A large part of this struggle stems from the fact that geophysics is an entirely separate discipline that, like most professions,…
Imagination to Interpretation
Christa M. Beranek (Boston University, Journal of Field Archaeology) <fontcolor=yellow>Recently, archaeologists have been incorporating fictional narratives into their scholarly texts or even writing stand-alone fictional pieces (see Joyce 2006; Wilkie 2003 for reviews of works in this form). Archaeologists use fictional or narrative writing for a number of reasons—as an alternative to/ critique of traditional…
Unpacking a thing: a map from “Ten things – science, technology and design” February 23, 2006
I gave a lecture for Michael Shank’s Ten things class yesterday. I laid out a road map for taking a thing and unpacking it. I offered examples from my own work with maps. But in the lecture I worked closely with Bruno Latour’s excellent thesis (which pulls together work by S. Alpers, E. Eisenstein and…