By Ian Russell Photographs by Conor McCarthy Caption: Banksy’s portable toilet monument with the Glastonbury ‘sacred circle’ behind I would like to commend Prof. John F. Cherry for his recent contribution to Archaeolog titled ‘Has anyone seen Banksy?’. I am a firm supporter of the growing synergies between archaeology and contemporary art. As many archaeologists…
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WHERE THE FUTURE OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL THEORY LIES (WAC session announcement)
We are organizing a session for WAC-6 under the theme Archaeological Theory? Legacies, Burdens, Futures, which was announced on Archaeolog in June. This session was inspired by a question posted to an archaeological discussion list a few months ago: where are the new ideas in archaeological theory deriving from? The two organisers of this session,…
Reading Livers Through Reading Literature: HEPATOSCOPY and HARUSPICY in Iliad 20:469 ff & 24:212 ff, Aeneid 4:60 ff & 10.175 ff, Cicero and Pliny on Divination, among others
Co-authored research by Patrick Hunt, Stanford University, and Whitney de Luna, Stanford Hospital Liver Clinic Fig. 1 Etruscan Bronze Mirror of Chalchas the Seer Reading a Liver (Vatican: Gregorian Museum, Rome, cat # 12240) Figure 2 Sheep’s liver in clay. 14.6 cm across. Old Babylonian, circa 1900-1600 BC. Provenance: likely Sippar in modern southern Iraq….
Ábhar agus Meon: A call for submissions
We live, capriciously enmeshed in a world of things. In the process of human becoming, both artists and archaeologists, as skilled negotiators, mediators and translators of things, have opportunitiesto steward, provoke and subvert our intra-relationships in the shared ecologies of our world. Today, artists and archaeologists are turning towards each other to exchange experiences, narratives…
Caracol de la Resistencia: Zapatista Symbol References Maya Past
In an ethnographic interview conducted in June 2007, leaders of the autonomous community of Oventic in highland Chiapas, Mexico discussed with me and a colleague the meaning of the caracol (snail) as a Zapatista symbol. They explained that the ancient Maya ancestors used a conch shell as a horn to summon people to gather in…
Four Stone Hearth: volume 21
The final throws of a new Ph.D.’s job search? No, this week Archaeolog hosts Four Stone Hearth and the next series of their blog carnival. The Fourth Stone Hearth is a “blog carnival that specializes in anthropology in the widest (American) sense of that word”. This carnival spans this four-field model, including submissions ranging from…