Category Archives: Recently read

I received a CD the other day from Jack Dempsey, a writer in Massachussetts. His own homepage is called http://ancientgreece-earlyamerica.com/. He claims to have discovered an “Ancient Key to Western Time and Politics” in an astronomical re-interpretation of the Minoan … Continue reading →

A German-language series by and for women in archaeological and gender studies. The series is edited by FemArcEdition, a subsidiary of the Network of Women in Archaeology. Books can be ordered via its website or – from Volume 4 onwards … Continue reading →

Svanberg, Fredrik and Katty H. Wahlgren (2007) Publik Arkeologi. Lund: Nordic Academic Press. 152 pp., illustrations (many in colour), pbk, ISBN 978-91-89116-96-2, SEK 169 (= ca € 18). Order here. Public archaeology is a fast growing area of Anglophone archaeology, … Continue reading →

Alfredo Gonzalez Ruibal posted an interesting review on Archaeolog: Richard J. Gould: Disaster Archaeology, The University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City, 2007, ISBN 978-0-87480-894-0, 288 p., 55 figures, 5 tables, cloth. Richard Gould’s new book shows us the usefulness … Continue reading →

Just discovered that the journal CRM: The Journal of Heritage Stewardship, published by the US National Park Service is freely available online in full, starting with Vol 1, Number 1, Fall 2003. The title of the journal is a bit … Continue reading →

I recently read Shirley Fedorak’s new book Anthropology Matters! It is about the relevance of anthropology in our everyday lives as human beings in the Western world. The best chapters discuss questions such as these: Of What Use is Anthropology … Continue reading →

Der Band basiert auf der Habilitationsschrift von Marek Dulinicz, die in Polen bereits vor einiger Zeit unter dem Titel KsztaÅ‚towanie siÄ™ SÅ‚owiaÅ„szczyzny Północno-Zachodniej. Studium archeologiczne (Warszawa 2001) erschienen ist, in den vergangenen Jahren jedoch wesentlich ausgebaut und um zahlreiche Literaturangaben … Continue reading →

Matthew Edgeworth published an essay, beautifully illustrated by Fotis Ifantidis, about “THE CLEARING: Heidegger and Excavation” on Stanford’s Archaeolog. He concludes: The fact that Husserl and Heidegger – and later Merleau-Ponty – all employed archaeological metaphors to help elucidate the … Continue reading →