The book is based on the session "Bodies in pieces: the changing relations between 
body parts and bodies whole" held in September 2007 at the 13th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists in Zadar, Croatia, in the context of the Leverhulme-funded project 'Changing Beliefs in the Human Body'. Through this project the image of the body in pieces soon emerged as a potent site of attitudes about the body and associated practices in many periods.
The temporal spread of the papers put bodily fragmentation into a long-term historical perspective, indicating both the consistent importance and the varied perception of body parts in the archaeological record of Europe and the Near East. The focus is on the status of the body in different cultural contexts. As a fragment, a part may acquire a distinct meaning through its enchained relationship to the whole or alternatively it may be used in a more straightforward manner to represent the whole or even act as stand-in for other variables.

Many of the papers deal directly with the physical remains of the dead body, but the range of practices and representations covered in this volume confirm the sheer variability of treatments of the body throughout human history. Every one of the contributions shows how looking at how the human body is divided into pieces or parts can give us deeper insights into the beliefs of the particular society which produced these practices and representations.
 
 

N. Schlanger and K. Aitchison (eds) 2010. Archaeology and the Global Economic Crisis. Multiple Impacts, Possible Solutions. Tervuren: Culture Lab Éditions.

The book is based on the session "Archaeology and the global crisis - multiple impacts, possible solutions", held in September 2009 at the 15th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists in Riva del Garda, Italy. You can download the book as PDF file at: http://ace-archaeology.eu/fichiers/25Archaeology-and-the-crisis.pdf
 
 

D. C. Cowley (ed.) 2011. Remote Sensing for Archaeological Heritage Management. EAC, Occasional Paper 5. Budapest: Archeolingua. 

Remote sensing is one of the main foundations of archaeological data, underpinning 
knowledge and understanding of the historic environment. The volume, arising from a symposium organized by the Europae Archaeologiae Consilium (EAC) and the Aerial Archaeology Research Group (AARG), provides up to date expert statements on the methodologies, achievements and potential of remote sensing with a particular focus on archaeological heritage management. Well-established approaches and techniques are set alongside new technologies and data-sources, with discussion covering relative merits and applicability, and the need for integrated approaches to understanding and managing the landscape. Discussions cover aerial photography, both modern and historic, LiDAR, satellite imagery, multi- and hyper-spectral data, sonar and geophysical survey, addressing both terrestrial and maritime contexts. Case studies drawn from the contrasting landscapes of Europe illustrate best practice and innovative projects.
 
 

T. Meier (ed.) 2006. Landscape Ideologies. Budapest: Archeolingua. 

This volume, resulting from the 11th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists 2005 in Cork, Ireland, samples 11 papers on the archaeological aspects of landscape ideologies. The contributions range from the term and social function of "landscape" to the implementation of the European Landscape Convention in specific heritage environments. Further issues include the differences and reception of landscape research in "East" and "West", the ideological background of European heritage management and visions on an archaeological position towards interdisciplinary landscape management. Case studies from Italy, Germany, Bohemia and Norway trace bottom-up and expert approaches towards the management of historic landscapes as well as seeking to understand prehistoric and folk perceptions of landscapes.
 
 

L. H. Dommasnes, T. Hjoerungdal, S. Montón-Subías, M. Sánchez Romero and N. L. Wicker (eds) 2010. Situating Gender in European Archaeologies. Budapest: Archaeolingua.

This volume, deriving from the 14th Annual Meeting in of the European Association of Archaeologists in Malta, contains fifteen studies of gender and archaeology in Europe from different perspectives, including contributions to the research history of gender in archaeology as well as case-studies that focus on gender relations in Iberia, Scandinavia, Russia, Eastern Europe, and the Eastern Mediterranean. In addition, two introductory essays place these various approaches in context, explicitly considering how knowledge is created by scholars located ("situated") in time and space, how different academic traditions and regional approaches are (or are not) represented in the dominant English-language literature, and how gender research is disseminated to the public and to academic audiences.
 
 

D. B. Counts and B. Arnold (eds) 2010. The Master of Animals in Old World Iconography. Budapest: Archaeolingua.

This volume derives from the 14th Annual Meeting in of the European Association of Archaeologists in Malta. Old World iconography from the Upper Paleolithic to the Christian era consistently features symbolic representations of both female and male protagonists in conflict with, accompanied by or transmuted partly or completely into, animals. Adversarial relationships are made explicit through hunting and sacrifice scenes, including heraldic compositions featuring a central figure grasping beasts arrayed on either side, while more implicit expressions are manifested in zoomorphic attributes (horns, headdresses, skins, etc.) and composite or hybrid figures that blend animal and human elements into a single image. While the so-called Mistress of Animals has attracted significant scholarly attention, her male counterpart, the Master of Animals, so far has not been accorded a correspondingly comprehensive synthetic study. In an effort to fill this gap in scholarship, The Master of Animals in Old World Iconography assembles archaeological, iconographical, and literary evidence for the Master of Animals from a variety of cultural contexts and disparate chronological horizons throughout the Old World, with a particular focus on Europe and the Mediterranean basin as well as the Indus Valley and Eurasia. The volume does not seek to demonstrate relatedness between different manifestations of this figure, even though some are clearly ontologically and geographically linked, but rather to interpret the role of this iconographic construct within each cultural context. In doing so, The Master of Animals in Old World Iconography provides an important resource for scholars confronting similar symbolic paradigms across the Old World landscape that foregrounds comparative interpretation in diverse ritual and socio-political environments.
 
 

C. Hamon and B. Quilliec (eds) 2008. Hoards from the Neolithic to the Metal Ages. Technical and codified practices. Oxford: BAR I.S. 1758.

Eleven papers from a session held at the EAA conference in Cork, Ireland, in 2005. Contents: 1) Hoards from the Neolithic to the Metal Ages: Technical and Codified Practices - Introduction (Caroline Hamon and Bénédicte Quilliec); 2) "Traders" hoards'. Reviewing the Relationship between Trade and Permanent Deposition: the Case of the Dutch Voorhout Hoard (David Fontijn); 3) The Symbolic Value of Grindingstones Hoards: Technical Properties of Neolithic Examples (Caroline Hamon); 4) Neolithic Depositions in the Northern Netherlands (Karsten Wentink and Annelou van Gijn); 5) Interpretation Elements of Hoards from the Late Bronze Age in Lorraine and Saar through Technical Studies (forming process and metal composition) (Cécile Veber); 6) Iberian Psycho. Deliberate Destruction in Bronze Age Gold Hoards of the Iberian Peninsula (Alicia Perea); 7) Voluntary Destructions of Objects in Middle and Late Bronze Age Hoards in France (Maréva Gabillot and Céline Lagarde); 8) Use, Wear and Damage: Treatment of Bronze Swords before Deposition (Bénédicte Quilliec); 9) Doing away with Dichotomies? Comparative Use-Wear Analysis of Early Bronze Age Axes from Scotland (Shaun Moyler); 10) Hoards and Flint Blades in Western France at the End of the Neolithic (Ewen Ihuel); 11) Other than Bronze: Substances and Incorporation in Danish Bronze Age Hoards (Steven Matthews).
 
 

G. Blancquaert, F. Malrain, H. Stäuble and J. Vanmoerkerke (eds) 2007. Understanding the Past: a Matter of Surface-Area. Oxford: BAR I.S. 2194.

Resulting from one of the EAA 2007 sessions "Large scale territorial development and 
connected archaeological investigations: methodology and scientific outcome", this volume of papers focuses on the ways in which the study of large surface areas determines our perception of the past.

Contents:

1) Large "surface-area" archaeological operations in North Western Europe. A historical 
overview through Eastern France examples (Jan Vanmoerkerke); 2) The methodology of rescue excavations on large area and linear construction projects in Moravia (Jaroslav Peška and Vendula Vránová); 3) Large-Scale Archaeology Projects in Saxony, Germany (Harald Stäuble, Christoph Steinmann and Patricia de Vries); 4) The pattern of agricultural activities in the Norman countryside (2500-30 BC) as seen through preventive excavations on the south side of Caen (Benjamin Van den Bossche and Cyril Marcigny); 5) Beware of the known. Methodological issues in the detection of low density rural occupation in large-surface archaeological landscape-assessment in Northern-Flanders (Belgium) (Wim De Clercq, Machteld Bats, Pieter Laloo, Jooris Sergant and Philippe Crombé); 6) Archaeological interventions on linear and extensive earth-moving works: what scientific value? A close look at the second Iron Age (François Malrain and Geertrui Blancquaert); 7) Rescue archaeology initiated by research - a contradiction in terms? (Hakon Glorstad and Karl Kallhovd); 8) An extensive surface project at Aube Logistics Park (France): the methods and initial scientific results (Vincent Riquier and Julien Grisard); 9) Organizing archaeological research during major roadworks: the issues, constraints and principal results of the A85 and A19 motorway excavations (in the Centre Region of France) and the example of an extensive excavation on the Sublaines site (Thibaud Guiot and Eric Frénée).