The disjuncture between ‘what we do’ and ‘what we say we do’ has contributed not only to a great deal of conversation and debate it has also lead to a fair amount of angst and misunderstanding in archaeology (i.e. theory/practice split or the homebase/field bifurcation). Many (myself included) firmly believe that this disjuncture can only…
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Polyagentive archaeology. Part II: On the virtual and the actual
Polyagentive archaeology works from the understanding of two realities of the world; the virtual and the actual. The virtual (V1) The non-empirical and immanent level of polyagentive archaeology is the level of virtual (qualitative) multiplicities (Bergson 1998, 2001, 2004; Deleuze 1991, 1994). The virtual is a nonnumeric duration which is impossible to split up. It…
Polyagentive archaeology. Part I: Evolution Revisited
Johan Normark Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, Göteborg University, Sweden The following text is a short resume of what I call Polyagentive Archaeology. It shares some similarities with Symmetrical Archaeology. Apart from the ingredients of Latour, other technoscientists and Gell, which all have been used in recent years, polyagentive archaeology mainly includes ideas from…
Hannibal or Hasdrubal?: Some Numismatic and Chronometric Considerations for Alpine Archaeology
Figs 1 & 2 Carthaginian shekels (probably silver), said to represent Hannibal, c. 220 BC, and Hasdrubal, c. 209 BC, (both as Herakles-Melqart?) respectively What kind of archaeological evidence could distinguish two very similar events only a little more than a decade apart? Of all the possible absolute or relative chronometers an archaeologist might use,…
Reflexive Representations: The Partibility of Archaeology
An artistic exploration of archaeological theory Andrew Cochrane (Cardiff University) Ian Russell (Trinity College, Dublin) The pieces in this exhibition seek to contest traditional mechanisms for representation and spectatorship by questioning the status that visual images occupy in archaeological discourse. Photomosaics of iconic archaeologists and archaeological objects are constructed through the manufacture of archives and…
Alpine Archaeology: Hannibal Expedition – Stanford Alpine Archaeology Project 2006 Field Report
Fig. 1 Stanford Alpine Archaeology Project 2006 Team (Dr. Patrick Hunt, Director & photographer) Team: front row: Gina Farias-Eisner, Brian Head, Ed Boenig, Katie Goldhan, second row: Beatrice Hunt, Jessi Humphries, back row: Andreea Seicean, Jessica Bradley, Sarah Concklin, Scotti Shafer, Brian Knowles, Nancy El-Sakkhary, Rhianon Liu, Casey Carroll, Dave Beall In August 2006 the…