Timothy Webmoor and Christopher Witmore Last month archaeolog.org turned six years old. And in the blogging world this ripe old age is quite an accomplishment – a veritable geezer. But this birthday passed unacknowledged and in the midst of one of the longest dry spells in archaeolog.org’s history. Since 2005 we have been silent for…
posts
Manifesto for archaeology of flow
an extract from a new book on the archaeology of rivers and other flows of materials. It argues that rivers are as susceptible to archaeological and historical analysis as more solid parts of landscapes are.
Experimenting with the Dérive Experience of Landscapes
This is an excerpt from a portion of a paper entitled “Three Cities: thinking through embodied archaeologies with experiments in psychogeography and urban design” which I gave at TAG Berkeley back in May. The full version is available here: http://archaeologiesensoria.wordpress.com Three cities, three walks. During the Binchester excavations, I took three walks that purposefully mirrored…
Science and Technology Studies (STS) and Anthropology: What is the status of our descriptions?
“The goal of descriptive adequacy is unattainable but continually haunts the endeavor, lying alongside, but in another time, and speaking back, like the immaterial ghosts of prophecy or the value of a currency.” (Maurer 2005, p. 54) What is it to describe? What ambitions and hopes do we attach to our descriptions? How do we…
Object orientations? A commentary on Graham Harman’s intervention in STS and archaeology
Graham Harman diagrams the ‘fourfold’ object for STSers and archaeologists at the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society, Oxford Graham Harman recently visited Oxford for a week as part of a Mellon funded Sawyer Seminar. The organisers, archaeologist Chris Gosden and geographer Sarah Whatmore, both of the University of Oxford, put together an innovative format…
Part 4 of Moving on to Mobility: Archaeological Ambulations on the Mobile World
Motion capture of superimposed images of a moving pole (Étienne-Jules Marey c.1900) Fluid interdependence “While the body moves, movement is not only in the body, but in the world around …” (Posted by Oscar on Oct 15/2009 04:17AM) Fluid interdependence as a concern emerges by attaching significance to things not as closed systems that are…