In its complex reflexivities, its multiple feedback loops, and its inextricable entanglement of nature and culture, the anthropocene is a geological epoch like no other. The difficult task of understanding it should not be left entirely to biochemists, geologists, climatologists and other natural scientists. Archaeologists should grapple with the anthropocene too…..
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Open Access, Classical Studies and Publication by Postgraduate Researchers
Stefan Krmnicek and Peter Probst (*) (Photo by alcomm, 2006. Creative Commons License. http://www.flickr.com/photos/alcomm/217097889/) Since March 2006 the online-journal Frankfurter elektronische Rundschau zur Altertumskunde (Frankfurt electronic Review of Antiquity) or FeRA has been accessible here. Now in its tenth issue and fourth year, the time seems right for the editors to summarize their experiences on…
An Archaeological Metaphysics of Care. On epistemography, heritage ecologies and the isotopy of the past(s)
A discussion yesterday with Bruno Latour, after his presentation “Manifesto for Compositionalism” at Oxford, hinged upon how we go about composing our collective world now that ‘nature’ is no longer an organizing category. The difficulty for analyses is that the modernist notion of nature supplied a related host of distinctions which we routinely call upon…
Archaeology and the Speculative Turn
Here is the Prezi presentation for the paper I gave in Ben Alberti and Yvonne Marshall’s excellent “Worlds Otherwise” session during this weekend’s TAG at Brown University (click on the image above). I left this year’s Theoretical Archaeology Group with a profound sense of enthusiasm and excitement for the work being presented in that venue….
A conversation on the state of archaeology in Tunisia
Nejib Ben Lazreg, Institut National du Patrimoine, Tunisia Archaeolog: what are the pressing issues facing archaeology in Tunisia today? Ben Lazreg: First of all, conservation. Rapid economic development has occurred over the last 30 years. The quality of live is changing. People are building more and more houses in step with the state investing in…
A Review of: Archaeologies of Placemaking: Monuments, memories and engagement in Native North America. Edited by Patricia Rubertone, One World Archaeology Series 59. Walnut Creek: Left Coast Press, 2009.
Archaeologies of Placemaking is the outcome of a WAC-5 session at Washington, D.C. in 2003. The following review of this volume is divided into two parts. The first part provides a summary of the nine chapters, and the second offers critical commentary on its content. Archaeologies of Placemaking contains an introduction and eight case studies…