【Archaeology】An Annotated WWII Underwater Archaeology Bibliography
With four decades of WWII underwater archaeology publications, the time is nigh to create a comprehensive bibliography and conduct an analysis of tren... [more]
【Archaeology】Dirt in the Wounds: Confronting Hard Histories through Public Community Archaeology in Boston
The majority of Boston's residents are minorities. These minority residents confront the ongoing effects of racism, including the hard histories of e... [more]
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The Peabody Museum, Frederic W. Putnam, and the rise of US anthropology, 1866-1903
This article explores the intersection of the career of Frederic Ward Putnam with the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard to the history of U.S. archaeology between his appointment as professor in 1866 and his death in 1915. Pu
Archaeology in the Middle Rocky Mountains: Myopia, misconceptions and other concerns
Middle Rocky Mountain archaeology is being impeded by provincialism and a preoccupation with the Northwestern Plains fostered by archaeologists failure to clearly distinguish between mountains and plains. Data from the mountains are interpreted in terms o
Archaeology and 'QAA subject review': What did we learn?
The authors recount their personal experience of the recent assessment of archaeology teaching in the Untied Kingdom.
The politics of archaeology in Africa
Africa is various, writes Kwame Anthony Appiah in defiance of the Eurocentric myth of a unitary and unchanging continent. The politics of archaeology in Africa has been no less marked by variety. Yet, underlying this multiplicity of historical experience
Evaluating evolutionary archaeology
Itt has often been observed that archaeologists are adept at borrowing theory but not very good about building it. Analyses of the uptake by archaeologists of perspectives from a diversity of sources indicate that such borrowings rarely (if ever) lead to
Archaeologies that hurt, descendants that matter: A pragmatic approach to collaboration in the publi
Pragmatism's anti-essentialist emphasis on contingency and plurality and its notion of truth-as-created (not discovered) have important implications for the interpretation of archaeological data, and for the 'public presentation' of archaeological rese
Community boundary, secularized religion and imagined past in Bangladesh: Archaeology and historiogr
The past, as constructed by the modern power of colonialism and nationalism, has essentialized the ideals of nation-state through the process of homogenizing the polysemous identities of non-Western societies and religions. The power of this imagined past
Urban archaeology in Latin America:: The case of Old Havana, archaeological city
The paper starts by introducing urban archaeology as Latin American subject. We then oppose Portuguese and Spanish towns as two different approaches to city life. Spanish cities were planned, in Renaissance style, as chequered blocks, while Portuguese one
Archaeology and cognitive evolution
Archaeology can provide two bodies of information relevant to the understanding of the evolution of human cognition - the timing of developments, and the evolutionary context of these developments. The challenge is methodological. Archaeology must documen
Decisions and dispositions: Socializing spatial archaeology
Concerns with spatial dimensions and social inference have long histories in archaeology. However, the two histories are not always conjoined. This article considers changing understandings of space in archaeology in the last half century, and the variabl
Community-based archaeology in Australia
Outside the Antipodes, Australian archaeology is best known as an archaeology of the distant Palaeolithic past. However, where communities have been closely involved in developing and undertaking archaeological research programs, the focus of archaeologic
Archaeology and vanua development in Fiji
There is a difference between archaeology that involves local communities and archaeology that is commissioned by and for the community. This paper describes the latter within the contemporary Fijian context of political and economic domination by an urba
Transforming archaeology through practice: Strategies for collaborative archaeology and the Communit
'Community archaeology' is a relatively new sub-field of research in archaeology that aims to involve local people in the investigation and interpretation of the past. Based on the creation of community archaeology research project in Quseir, Egypt, a g
What is community archaeology?
Community archaeology, understood as a distinctive set of practices within the wider discipline, is a relatively new development. Its most important distinguishing characteristic is the relinquishing of at least partial control of a project to the local c
A preliminary report on the discovery and recovery of a bronze apoxyomenos, off Vele Orjule, Croatia
A life-size bronze statue, of Greek style, has been fortuitously found in Croatian waters, near the small island of Vele Orjule (Northern Adriatic Sea). It features a male athlete of the apoxyomenos type. This paper reports on the first campaign of excava