a playful parallel to the so much disputed theme of fragmentation in archaeology…
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Creative Documentation and Archaeological Practice: Surveying Archaeologists on Film
The Greene Farm Archaeology Project (GFAP), in Warwick, Rhode Island, began in 2004 as a transdisciplinary and long-term project designed to facilitate research among a broad range of scholars and volunteers, using established and experimental archaeological methods. The central focus of the project is on researching 400 years of cultural and natural landscape transformations on…
On heritage and reconstruction
Last weekend I attended a workshop on heritage & reconstruction, organised by a group of young heritage professionals unhappy with the current state of both practice and theory in the German heritage sector. This was the sixth such workshop on “Reconsidering heritage management” (Nachdenken über Denkmalpflege). All the others have already been published at www.kunsttexte.de….
Graffiti Archaeology
A group of photographers and artists are documenting the accretion of the ‘underground’ urban landscape through graffiti art. Based in San Francisco, but also looking at graffiti in Los Angeles and New York, Cassidy Curtis and his team at Graffiti Archaeology document the changes through time of graffiti art at several tagging locations. All of…
TAG 2006: A Highlight
On 17 December 2006, an amalgamation archaeologists, anthropologists, social theorists and artists descended on the University of Exeter for a full day of debates and deliberations in the spirit of the 28th meeting of the Theoretical Archaeology Group. Taking part in a session organised by Vitor Oliveira Jorge and Julian Thomas, a dynamic and accomplished…
What to Do with Figurines? A case from Crete
Figurines are a ubiquitous class of archaeological artifact. As a result, much has been written about them and, more importantly, what, if anything, they can tell us about the cultures that produced them. Anthropomorphic figurines, in particular, entice us with a promise of human self-awareness, encoding cognition in the modeling and representation of the human…