A recent Archaeolog posting drew attention to the Graffiti Archaeology Project of Cassidy Curtis and his team, documenting accretional changes to graffiti walls in a number of urban locations in San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York. Such a project has become possible only by the development of software for the manipulation of digital imagery…
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History of Archaeology in the Colony
I am organizing a WAC session on the “History of archaeology in the colony” in the Theme “Archaeological Theory? Legacies, burdens, futures”. Chiefly, the session seeks submissions on history of archaeology in Egypt; Mesopotamia (Iraq); Africa; South Asia, Mexico and South America – located in late nineteenth century and early twentieth century trajectory of archaeology…
Archaeological Theory? Legacies, burdens, futures
What are the states (past, present, future) of theory in archaeology today? What are the agendas? Is the political commitment still alive? What has changed? Have we fallen into a state of post-hypercritical apathy, malaise, fragmentation? Where is archaeological theory going? We wish to explore these questions, which connect with recent discussion (see Holtorf and…
A comment on “What comes after Post-processualism???”
On June 3 Cornelius Holtorf initiated an interesting discussion around the question “What comes after Post-processualism???” The discussion is extremely worthwhile and I wish add to a few comments in hopes of keeping it going. Processualism and post-processualism: the powers of the paradigm, manifold as they are, add to the persistence of these terms. What…
Lessons from the Ethics Bowl | Lessons from a Collaborative Experience
By: Lisa Anderson, Cassandra Mesick, Christine Reiser, Krysta Ryzewski & Bradley Sekedat In April 2007, Brown University fielded a team composed of graduate students from the Department of Anthropology and the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World in the 4th annual Ethics Bowl at the Society for American Archaeology (SAA) general meeting held…
Hannibal’s Engineers and Livy (XXI.36-7) on Burned Rock – Truth or Legend?
Many have commented on Livy’s famous passage (Hist. XXI.36-7) where he describes Hannibal’s engineers surmounting a large rock blockage on the Italian descent of the Alps, including the late great French archaeologist Serge Lancel (Lancel, 1998:78-9) and our History Channel team 2006 production (June-November, 2006). According to Livy, and repeated in Ammianus Marcellinus (de Sanctis,…