Thomas M. Urban In summer of 2006 I left my job working for Brown University’s Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology to participate in a project in Iraq investigating mass graves for the Iraqi High Tribunal. My primary duty was analyzing “cultural objects” found in the graves of genocide victims. These objects included ballistic evidence, personal effects,…
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History on the Line, Davis Square
Christina J. Hodge, MA, PhD, RPA Senior Curatorial Assistant, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University Research Fellow, Department of Archaeology, Boston University The Oxford English Dictionary (2008) defines time as a “space” or “extent of existence” and “the interval between two successive events or acts.” Timelines exemplify this definition. Entrenched methods of representing…
Presentation of the creative, relativist and multicultural blog of the Neixón hillforts archaeological project (Galicia, Spain)
Xurxo Ayán Vila (Spanish Higher Council of Scientific Research) David Blanco Míguez (University of A Coruña) The Internet must be seen as a social phenomenon and its spatial properties should be critically interrogated… Our cultural archaeological production is today implicated in the discourses and contestations of identity, social roles and representations, in new ways, through…
Rivers as artifacts
This paper starts with the question: can rivers usefully be studied as artifacts? The question may raise an eyebrow or two. For the most part rivers tend to be regarded as more or less natural features of a landscape or townscape. Even in the midst of towns – bordered by buildings on both sides –…
Hero! Real archaeology and ”Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull”
All three previous movies about Indiana Jones have become quintessential adventure films. But how does Indy compare to real archaeology? asks Cornelius Holtorf who teaches archaeology and heritage studies (kulturarv, kulturmiljö) at the University of Kalmar in Sweden.
Between C and K: Archaeological Practices of Mediation in Engineering Design
There is a Chasidic teaching about the Mezuzah, a small container which encloses a parchment upon which several passages of the Torah are written. The Mezuzah is placed on the door posts of houses and gates. The teaching expands on the placement of the Mezuzah, a place between the inside and the outside. There is…