On objects and habits
blog Abandoned writing implements in an abandoned small house in Southern Finland. Marko Marila, 2009. There are, I think, two types of philosophies that have set the agenda for archaeological theory...
View ArticleWilliam Rathje (July 1, 1945 - May 24, 2012)
(Image by Louis Psihoyos) Bill Rathje passed away on May 24th – just over a month shy of his 67th birthday. Everyone who knew Bill well loved him. And there was a lot to love about him. A kind and...
View ArticleChorography - then and now
Chorography - a workshop at Durham University July 10 2012 - [Link] Summer fieldwork. I am less focused on the excavations at Binchester this year [Link]. I am pulling together my long-running research...
View ArticleThe principle of symmetry according to Tim Ingold: An occasion for more...
When deployed in the context of metaphysics, symmetry is an awkward, even unsightly, term. Those of us who have enrolled this principle have been the first to admit this. We have also been the first to...
View ArticleSymmetry, STS, Archaeology (Part 1 of 2)
Territorial wrangling is a good indicator that there is something emergent which is coveted amongst disciplines. The principle of symmetry, while a topic no longer generating any sustained discussion...
View ArticleSymmetry, STS, Archaeology (Part 2)
. . .continued from Part 1 of 2. Temporalitycolor) The ethnographic examination of archaeological practice has become an established sub-domain (Edgeworth 2006, 2010; Yarrow 2003), although this...
View ArticleLaunch of Journal of Contemporary Archaeology and Call for Papers
The editors and Equinox Publishing are pleased to announce the launch of a new journal devoted to the study of contemporary archaeology and invite submissions for publication, commencing with the first...
View ArticleRuins and Memory: Cormac McCarthy's Archaeological Imagination
Cormac McCarthy is a writer whose novels are haunted by ruins, whether the remains of an old inn in his first novel, or the recent ruins of a destroyed world in his last. His characters find...
View ArticleArchaeological Orientations: A new series
With the impending publication of an excellent new book, Reclaiming Archaeology: Beyond the Tropes of Modernity, edited by Alfredo González-Ruibal (2013), Gavin Lucas and I have decided that we are...
View ArticleAgainst Gandalf the Grey: an Archaeology of the Surface
Archaeology has been for many years identified with its own method, that of excavation. It is the way the public sees archaeology and many archaeologists think of themselves too (e.g. Holtorf 2007)....
View ArticleDOUBLE VISION: IMAGINES, SIMULACRA, REPLICAS
A session at the US TAG 2013, Chicago Co-organizers: Alicia Jiménez (alicia.jimenez(at)stanford.edu) and Alfredo González-Ruibal (alfredo.gonzalez-ruibal(at)incipit.csic.es) Archaeology leans heavily...
View ArticleArchaeological Description and Doubt
I wrote this paper for a session at the 2011 Meeting of the American Association of Anthropology in Montreal called Science and Technology Studies (STS) and Anthropology: What is the status of our...
View ArticleArchaeology through the Lens of Sherlock Holmes
There is always something to learn from Sherlock Holmes. It is a good sign that an archaeologist has been often identified with the private detective: The Sherlock Holmes type detective has become a...
View ArticleRuin Memories: A Portfolio
Modernity is rarely associated with ruins. In our everyday comprehension ruins rather bring to mind ancient and enchanted monumental structures; an archaeological dream world featuring celebrities...
View ArticleA new look on a new site
Archaeolog has moved to a new platform on a new site. http://www.stanford.edu/dept/archaeology/cgi-bin/archaeolog/ Still some wrinkles to iron out, but new entries are there.
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