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A Review of: Archaeologies of Placemaking: Monuments, memories and engagement in Native North America. Edited by Patricia Rubertone, One World Archaeology Series 59. Walnut Creek: Left Coast Press, 2009.

Mar 9, 2010 12:18pm

Archaeologies of Placemaking is the outcome of a WAC-5 session at Washington, D.C. in 2003. The following review of this volume is divided into two parts. The first part provides a summary of the nine chapters, and the second offers......

The realities of the past: archaeology, object-orientations, pragmatology

Feb 5, 2010 12:01pm

I have been fascinated by the implications of the speculative turn for archaeology for some time now (Graham Harman's blog provides a conduit to the world of speculative realism; Harman currently has several books in press on the topic). I......

RUIN MEMORIES: Materiality, Aesthetics and the Archaeology of the Recent Past

Jan 25, 2010 3:49am

Numerous studies have focused on modernity’s destructive effect on traditional life- worlds, the desertion of villages and the ruination of rural areas. However, the fact that the modern condition also produces its own ruined materialities, its own marginalized pasts,......

Yes we can! But so what? Some observations on contemporary archaeology

Jan 13, 2010 10:09am

James Symonds (University of Oulu, Finland) For more than 150 years archaeology has had a clear purpose, to sketch out the topography of the past from the pinnacle of the present. Like the traveller’s gaze in Shelley’s Ozymandius, archaeologists have......

Fields of artifacts: archaeology of contemporary scientific discovery

Dec 26, 2009 8:04am

The times when artifacts come to light - the moments of discovery as it were - are crucial moments in that they precipitate discussion and argument amongst scientists about what is real and what is not, what is natural and what is artificial, how the artifacts got to be...

Contemporary and Historical Archaeology in Theory Conference 2009

Nov 25, 2009 12:37pm

John M. Chenoweth (UC Berkeley) From October 16 to 18, participants met at Keble College, Oxford, for the 2009 CHAT conference. Over 30 papers engaged with the theme “Modern Materials: the archaeology of things from the early modern, modern, and......

Tara 2009 Symposium: Live Webstream

Nov 1, 2009 9:34am

The UCD School of Archaeology, in association with the John Hume Institute for Global Irish Studies, is hosting a symposium entitled Tara – From the Past to the Future. ------------- LIVE WEBSTREAM: http://www.ucd.ie/archaeology/tarasymposium2009/livestream/ ------------- Featuring approximately forty papers by......

Michael Shanks' intervention into Tara 2009

Oct 31, 2009 10:19am

Michael Shanks has intervened in the proceedings of the Tara 2009 Symposium at UCD via iChat from Stanford University. You can read his paper here: http://documents.stanford.edu/MichaelShanks/400 ------------------------- Ian Russell - www.iarchitectures.com......

‘Epistemography’ and Archaeological Assembling. A Manifesto for Media.

Oct 23, 2009 8:02am

Archaeology, Science and Technology Studies, University of Oxford In 1922 the Mexican scholar Arreola published a study of maps and images which he had recovered from archives in Mexico City. Much of the material that he presented had not been......

Gardner, A. 2007. An Archaeology of Identity: Soldiers & Society in Late Roman Britain, Walnut Creek: Left Coast Press.

Oct 1, 2009 7:58am

Robert Collins, University of Newcastle An Archaeology of Identity: Soldiers & Society in Late Roman Britain by Andrew Gardner (2007) is a work that strives to push forward the current understanding of the Roman Empire, accepting the challenge of incorporating......

Island of Abandonment

Sep 14, 2009 10:15am

Mandji is as beautiful and perfect as a tourist poster. But it is also a rubbish dump of history. A few bungalows are being built in the expectation of tourism. But tourists do not come. And the bungalows decay,......

Some Problems and Potential in Community Engagement and Making Archaeology Public

Aug 28, 2009 3:20pm

Alex R. Knodell Brown University I recently attended a conference in Greece that was put together with the admirable goal of creating a dialogue between a local community and academic archaeologists working in the area. Topics to be addressed were......

Present absences: The 'Home' Project is installed in Dublin

Jul 11, 2009 10:54am

The street art stencils for The Home Project were completed this week on Clanbrassil Street in Dublin. Activating heritage, community, identity and public space, the powerwasher stencils will be in situ until the foot traffic of Clanbrassil Street erases......

WAC Artist in Residence Kevin O'Dwyer's installation at UCD

Jul 10, 2009 10:26am

Installation of 'Na Fáná Fuachtmhar', a new sculpture by Kevin O'Dwyer, artist in residence at the Sixth World Archaeological Congress at University College Dublin. With an excerpt from UCD Scholarcast: Archaeologies of Art. 'Na Fáná Fuachtmhar' was inspired by......

Innovation, future(s) making and archaeology

Jun 1, 2009 8:14am

Components for wind turbines at port in Nafplion, Greece. Last Wednesday I attended a workshop at MIT entitled “Relocating innovation: Places and material practices of future making”. Convened by Lucy Suchman (in residence with the Department of Anthropology at......