THE BORDES-BINFORD DEBATE: TRANSATLANTIC
... In a very deliberate fashion, Lewis Binford had strategically selected ...
... In a very deliberate fashion, Lewis Binford had strategically selected ...
Number 3, May - Society for American Archaeology
... Making a Difference Today The SAA endowments are not just about the distant future. Earnings from the three funds are being put to work right now, providing new opportunities for students and improving the SAA’s overall effectiveness. For example, in 2006, the SAA Board approved use of some of the g ...
... Making a Difference Today The SAA endowments are not just about the distant future. Earnings from the three funds are being put to work right now, providing new opportunities for students and improving the SAA’s overall effectiveness. For example, in 2006, the SAA Board approved use of some of the g ...
Number 4, September - Society for American Archaeology
... Archaeology (CAA). The 2009 CAA meeting will be held at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation in Williamsburg, Virginia, March 22–26, a month before the SAA meets in Atlanta. While I would not normally go out of my way to highlight the meeting of another organization on this page, I am doing so in th ...
... Archaeology (CAA). The 2009 CAA meeting will be held at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation in Williamsburg, Virginia, March 22–26, a month before the SAA meets in Atlanta. While I would not normally go out of my way to highlight the meeting of another organization on this page, I am doing so in th ...
Opening Archaeology Repatriation`s Impact on Contemporary
... only recently have been more widely recognized. The discipline’s role in the past and the institutions and social contexts within which its earlier practices were forged and continued to develop are not easily separated from the ethical, practical, or theoretical constructs of contemporary research. ...
... only recently have been more widely recognized. The discipline’s role in the past and the institutions and social contexts within which its earlier practices were forged and continued to develop are not easily separated from the ethical, practical, or theoretical constructs of contemporary research. ...
POSTCOLONIAL THEORY IN ANTHROPOLOGY AND
... Apart, and Cesaire’s Discourse on Colonialism are but a few of the signposts that have lighted the way for anthropologists. It is only natural that possibly the most highly nuanced postcolonial thinking in anthropology has emerged in Africa, where there is a complex the thick legacy of colonialism a ...
... Apart, and Cesaire’s Discourse on Colonialism are but a few of the signposts that have lighted the way for anthropologists. It is only natural that possibly the most highly nuanced postcolonial thinking in anthropology has emerged in Africa, where there is a complex the thick legacy of colonialism a ...
Archaeology Is Anthropology - CLAS Users
... our constructions of the past (e.g., Knapp 1996). Significantly, rather than being satisfied with documenting sequences of events, archaeologists (and not just those trained within anthropology) have tried to create new ways to think about how different aspects of social existence would have affecte ...
... our constructions of the past (e.g., Knapp 1996). Significantly, rather than being satisfied with documenting sequences of events, archaeologists (and not just those trained within anthropology) have tried to create new ways to think about how different aspects of social existence would have affecte ...
1 The “Ethnographic Turn” in Archaeology
... Ultimately, these methodological strategies tend to rely upon analogy of the present to the past. This analogy takes the form of an analysis and interpretation of the value of the results of the archaeological ethnography.5 On this point, a crucial difference between archaeological ethnography and e ...
... Ultimately, these methodological strategies tend to rely upon analogy of the present to the past. This analogy takes the form of an analysis and interpretation of the value of the results of the archaeological ethnography.5 On this point, a crucial difference between archaeological ethnography and e ...
People with history: An update on historical
... KEY WORDS: historical archaeology; New World complexsocieties;capitalism; material culture studies; historical material anthropology. ...
... KEY WORDS: historical archaeology; New World complexsocieties;capitalism; material culture studies; historical material anthropology. ...
culture contact studies - redefining the relationship
... at St. Augustine; and (3) a growing recognition that the classic "European" colonial settlements where historical archaeologists cut their teeth were actually comprised of many peoples of "color" (e.g, Ferguson 1992:3-6). Prehistoric and Historical Archaeology Historical archaeologists have now broa ...
... at St. Augustine; and (3) a growing recognition that the classic "European" colonial settlements where historical archaeologists cut their teeth were actually comprised of many peoples of "color" (e.g, Ferguson 1992:3-6). Prehistoric and Historical Archaeology Historical archaeologists have now broa ...
Re-Presenting the Past
... (2) Some representations of the archaeological past are objectively and subjectively better than others. There can be the possibility of improved representation that does not simply adhere to the analytical preoccupations of any one generation of scholars. The first point builds on the recent idea t ...
... (2) Some representations of the archaeological past are objectively and subjectively better than others. There can be the possibility of improved representation that does not simply adhere to the analytical preoccupations of any one generation of scholars. The first point builds on the recent idea t ...
Post-Processual Archaeology and After
... 1970s, many arising as a critique of the processual orthodoxy in Anglo-American archaeology, and of traditional culture historical archaeology. Included here are neo-Marxian anthropology, structuralism, various influences of literary and cultural theory, feminism, postpositivist social science, herm ...
... 1970s, many arising as a critique of the processual orthodoxy in Anglo-American archaeology, and of traditional culture historical archaeology. Included here are neo-Marxian anthropology, structuralism, various influences of literary and cultural theory, feminism, postpositivist social science, herm ...
Chapter 1. Is Archaeology Anthropology - CLAS Users
... Perhaps millennial fever together with the 2002 centennial celebration of the AAA has contributed to a reassessment of the value of maintaining our nineteenthcentury legacy of "four-field" anthropology departments. However, we now have to contend with Robert Borofsky's (2002) assertion—in the flagsh ...
... Perhaps millennial fever together with the 2002 centennial celebration of the AAA has contributed to a reassessment of the value of maintaining our nineteenthcentury legacy of "four-field" anthropology departments. However, we now have to contend with Robert Borofsky's (2002) assertion—in the flagsh ...
The World as Artefact: Material Culture Studies and Archaeology
... However, hardly any ethno-archaeological studies are conducted with this purpose, and most often it is the critics of ethnoarchaeology who require ethno-archaeologists to demonstrate the “archaeological” relevance of an ethnographic study: ethnoarchaeologists themselves are most often confident in t ...
... However, hardly any ethno-archaeological studies are conducted with this purpose, and most often it is the critics of ethnoarchaeology who require ethno-archaeologists to demonstrate the “archaeological” relevance of an ethnographic study: ethnoarchaeologists themselves are most often confident in t ...
Teaching Archaeology as Anthropology. - CLAS Users
... professionals, the government officials with whom the scientific "ethos" within which academic archaethey work, and teaching archaeologists, many of whom ologists are enculturated raises many problems, because have been sufficiently motivated by this crisis to act others involved in the practice of ...
... professionals, the government officials with whom the scientific "ethos" within which academic archaethey work, and teaching archaeologists, many of whom ologists are enculturated raises many problems, because have been sufficiently motivated by this crisis to act others involved in the practice of ...
Sonya Atalay University of Massachusetts Amherst Department of
... Foodways at Çatalhöyük. First author with Christine Hastorf. In Çatalhöyük Perspectives: themes from the 1995-99 seasons. Ian Hodder (ed.), Chapter 8, p.109124. Çatalhöyük Project Vol. 6. McDonald Institute, Cambridge University Monographs, Cambridge, UK. Reprints of Publications 2010d No Sense of t ...
... Foodways at Çatalhöyük. First author with Christine Hastorf. In Çatalhöyük Perspectives: themes from the 1995-99 seasons. Ian Hodder (ed.), Chapter 8, p.109124. Çatalhöyük Project Vol. 6. McDonald Institute, Cambridge University Monographs, Cambridge, UK. Reprints of Publications 2010d No Sense of t ...
What is Archaeology? - Georgia Council of Professional
... • What is Archaeology? • Harris and Smith • 19 researchers are able to detect relationships or interrelatedness among settlements, even if remote. But what underlies the ability to make those cultural interpretations? Archaeologists assume that the placement of artifacts, features and settlements o ...
... • What is Archaeology? • Harris and Smith • 19 researchers are able to detect relationships or interrelatedness among settlements, even if remote. But what underlies the ability to make those cultural interpretations? Archaeologists assume that the placement of artifacts, features and settlements o ...
Why the history of archaeology is essential to theoretical archaeology
... constrain interpretation, in other words why archaeological data are theoretically and philosophically consequential. All of these issues (along with a host of others I can only merely nod towards) I take to be vital elements of a philosophy of archaeology, which is a rather bigger canvass to work o ...
... constrain interpretation, in other words why archaeological data are theoretically and philosophically consequential. All of these issues (along with a host of others I can only merely nod towards) I take to be vital elements of a philosophy of archaeology, which is a rather bigger canvass to work o ...
Historical Archaeology from a World Perspective
... economies. These clear-cut binary oppositions should be linked to the realization by the Americans that as there was a study of the material culture of Indians, by prehistorians who looked for their way of life, there should be a historical preservation of our (i.e. Euroamerican) own heritage (Orser ...
... economies. These clear-cut binary oppositions should be linked to the realization by the Americans that as there was a study of the material culture of Indians, by prehistorians who looked for their way of life, there should be a historical preservation of our (i.e. Euroamerican) own heritage (Orser ...
Word document - CLAS Users
... fields of Biological Anthropology and Archaeological Anthropology. Lectures will provide background information and thematic context for key issues in these fields. Connie Mulligan will lead the first module in Biological Anthropology and James Davidson will lead the second module in Anthropological ...
... fields of Biological Anthropology and Archaeological Anthropology. Lectures will provide background information and thematic context for key issues in these fields. Connie Mulligan will lead the first module in Biological Anthropology and James Davidson will lead the second module in Anthropological ...
The Archaeologist 56 - Spring 2005 Prehistoric Britain
... His broad conclusions are that it is a worthwhile scheme that needs careful consideration in order to expand membership in curatorial and educational sectors, and more promotion both within and outside the profession. IFA must also demonstrate its will and capacity to enforce standards in order to b ...
... His broad conclusions are that it is a worthwhile scheme that needs careful consideration in order to expand membership in curatorial and educational sectors, and more promotion both within and outside the profession. IFA must also demonstrate its will and capacity to enforce standards in order to b ...
Approaching material culture
... material world inhabited by people. Landscape, environment, nature, space or other words can be used to designate the physical surroundings or the world humans live in, but different meanings and schools of thought are associated with the various terms. “Landscape” is a black-box category, but it of ...
... material world inhabited by people. Landscape, environment, nature, space or other words can be used to designate the physical surroundings or the world humans live in, but different meanings and schools of thought are associated with the various terms. “Landscape” is a black-box category, but it of ...
Archaeological Remains, Documents, and
... historic sites and assemblages making meaningful the modern world (A.D. 1400-20th century) is additions to general social scientific and historical being successfully ignored by not only historians but even our immediate colleagues in social anscholarship? In 1982 Eric Wolf, a social anthropologist, ...
... historic sites and assemblages making meaningful the modern world (A.D. 1400-20th century) is additions to general social scientific and historical being successfully ignored by not only historians but even our immediate colleagues in social anscholarship? In 1982 Eric Wolf, a social anthropologist, ...
The Impact of the River Basin Surveys Program in Historical
... professionals; and at times severe budgetary constraints (Lehmer 1971, Jennings 1985). While these problems had important effects on all resources endangered by the Pick-Sloan reservoirs, they very clearly had the most profound effect on the historical archeological resource base. The problem lay im ...
... professionals; and at times severe budgetary constraints (Lehmer 1971, Jennings 1985). While these problems had important effects on all resources endangered by the Pick-Sloan reservoirs, they very clearly had the most profound effect on the historical archeological resource base. The problem lay im ...
Anth 551: Strategies in Archaeology
... semester we will address the nature of archaeological enquiry by “taking apart” case studies to get at their objectives and the underlying structure of the research design used to address their goals. Issues raised through readings and related discussions will resurface throughout the course as we e ...
... semester we will address the nature of archaeological enquiry by “taking apart” case studies to get at their objectives and the underlying structure of the research design used to address their goals. Issues raised through readings and related discussions will resurface throughout the course as we e ...
Industrial archaeology
Industrial archaeology (IA) is the systematic study of material evidence associated with the industrial past. This evidence, collectively referred to as industrial heritage, includes buildings, machinery, artifacts, sites, infrastructure, documents and other items associated with the production, manufacture, extraction, transport or construction of a product or range of products. The field of industrial archaeology incorporates a range of disciplines including archaeology, architecture, construction, engineering, historic preservation, museology, technology, urban planning and other specialties, in order to piece together the history of past industrial activities. The scientific interpretation of material evidence is often necessary, as the written record of many industrial techniques is often incomplete or nonexistent. Industrial archaeology includes both the examination of standing structures and sites that must be studied by an excavation.The field of industrial archaeology developed during the 1950s in Great Britain, at a time when many historic industrial sites and artifacts were being lost throughout that country, including the notable case of Euston Arch in London. In the 1960s and 1970s, with the rise of national cultural heritage movements, industrial archaeology grew as a distinct form of archaeology, with a strong emphasis on preservation, first in Great Britain, and later in the United States and other parts of the world. During this period, the first organized national industrial heritage inventories were begun, including the Industrial Monuments Survey in England and the Historic American Engineering Record in the United States. Additionally, a number of regional and national IA organizations were established, including the North American-based Society for Industrial Archeology in 1971, and the British-based Association for Industrial Archaeology in 1973. That same year, the First International Conference on the Conservation of Industrial Monuments was held at Ironbridge in Shropshire. This conference led, in 1978, to the formal establishment of The International Committee for the Conservation of the Industrial Heritage (commonly known as ""TICCIH"") as a worldwide organization for the promotion of industrial heritage. The members of these and other IA groups are generally a diverse mix of professionals and amateurs who share a common interest in promoting the study, appreciation and preservation of industrial heritage resources.