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Things, Places, & the Archaeology of Eurasia

October 3, 2011

A new conversation topic in the assemblages forum: Harvard has recently won a case in the US District court in Boston asserting their ownership of a large assemblage of Iranian...

September 29, 2011

A former archaeological sensation, now an art project  Or was it an art project in its initial iteration too "Theres a sucker born every minute" via Syracuse Cardiff...

September 28, 2011

A special report from the NSF examines the relationship between practicing archaeologists and their on-screen avatars in films such as the Indiana Jones cycle  In stressing...

September 27, 2011

A forthcoming book begs the question as to what provides depth in historical narrative  Is it simply duration  If so, does deep history preclude thick description  The reaction...

September 22, 2011

A brilliant simple explanation of basic liberal political theory complete with an account of how things and places cement the social contract http://youtube/htX2usfqMEs via...

September 21, 2011

New Paleobotanical report from the site of Tsaghkasar, courtesy of ArAGATS paleobotanist and current Fulbright Fellow, Roman Hovsepyan Palaeoethnobotanical Data from the High...

September 21, 2011

The second volume on the environmental context of Medieval Novgorod is forthcoming from Archeopress  Here a blurb on a complex and interesting project Novgorod was one of the...

September 21, 2011

CATALHOYUK, TURKEY — A pair of space-age shelters rising from the beet and barley fields of the flat Konya Plain are the first clue to the Catalhoyuk Research Project, where...

September 20, 2011

Here is a link to a recently published paleopathology study of human remains from the Vardbakh and Sev Amrots I cemeteries in the area around Giumri (1st cent BC-3rd cent AD)...

September 20, 2011

Here is an interesting interview with Jane Bennett on issues of materiality and the emerging philosophy of the object world  We read Bennett's book Vibrant Matter in my...

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