Review of Richard J. Gould: Disaster Archaeology, The University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City, 2007, ISBN 978-0-87480-894-0, 288 p., 55 figures, 5 tables, cloth. Richard Gould has a long pedigree as an archaeologist concerned with the present: he has made important contributions to ethnoarchaeology, modern material culture, historical archaeology and the archaeology of the…
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Remixing Catalhoyuk Day
Remixing Çatalhöyük Day 9am – 5pm PST November 28, 2007 Join us for Remixing Çatalhöyük Day, a public program sponsored by OKAPI and the Berkeley Archaeologists at Çatalhöyük. Visit OKAPI Island in the 3-D virtual environment of Second Life (see Getting Started below) and explore the past and present of Çatalhöyük, a 9000-year-old village located…
Experience, modes of engagement, archaeology. (WAC-6 session: Participants Welcome!)
We welcome submissions for the WAC session “Experience, modes of engagement, archaeology”. This session is co-organized by Matt Ratto (Sweden/Canada), Krysta Ryzewski (US), and Michelle Charest (US/Ireland), and will be part of the Theme: Archaeological Theory? Legacies, Burdens, Futures, organized by Andrew Cochrane, Ian Russell, Timothy Webmoor, and Christopher Witmore. We invite presentations that critically…
Call for Participating Teams! The 2008 SAA Ethics Bowl
The Society for American Archaeology’s Committee on Ethics is pleased to announce the Fifth Annual Ethics Bowl. Graduate and undergraduate students are invited to organize a team of 3 to 5 participants with a faculty advisor to take part in the event at the SAA 73rd Annual Meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia on March 27,…
History of Archaeology in the Colony
A session for WAC-6 under the theme Archaeological Theory? Legacies, Burdens, Futures, which was announced on Archaeolog in June. The meta-theoretical approach of processual archaeology gave rise to a history of archaeology, concentrating on the discipline as a cultural and political practice. It narrated a historical trajectory of a scientific discourse closely linked to the…
‘Most Haunted Live: Pirates’ Curse’. An Archaeology of Haunted Houses?
‘Most Haunted Live: Pirates’ Curse’ was filmed in Bristol and broadcast live at 9pm-12am on the 5th, 6th and 7th of May 2007 on UK Living. The Most Haunted series is a popular one on digital television and makes use of a fairly simple format. For the regular shows, a group comprising presenters, film crew…