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Medical Practices in Roman Spain: Identity through Medical Instruments

Archaeolog - Sat, 08/28/2010 - 01:31
This paper explains why it is necessary to consider provincial medical practices in historical examinations of Roman medicine from an archaeological perspective. Patricia Baker http://www.kent.ac.uk/secl/classics/staff/PattyBaker/

unearthed exhibition at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts

Archaeolog - Wed, 06/16/2010 - 19:37
unearthed exhibition at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts © Andy Crouch 2010. "> To access an on-line version of the Gallery Guide, please follow this link: http://issuu.com/sainsburycentreforvisualarts/docs/unearthed_galleryguide unearthed, a major new exhibition featuring prehistoric figurines from Japan, Romania, Macedonia,... Andrew Cochrane http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/hisar/contactsandpeople/academicstaff/A-E/cochrane-andrew-dr-overview_new.html

Archaeologists should grapple with the anthropocene too...

Archaeolog - Sun, 06/06/2010 - 09:39
In its complex reflexivities, its multiple feedback loops, and its inextricable entanglement of nature and culture, the anthropocene is a geological epoch like no other. The difficult task of understanding it should not be left entirely to biochemists, geologists, climatologists and other natural scientists. Archaeologists should grapple with the anthropocene too..... Matt Edgeworth http://traumwerk.stanford.edu:3455/edgeworth/Home

Open Access, Classical Studies and Publication by Postgraduate Researchers

Archaeolog - Sat, 05/22/2010 - 14:45
Stefan Krmnicek and Peter Probst (*) (Photo by alcomm, 2006. Creative Commons License. http://www.flickr.com/photos/alcomm/217097889/) Since March 2006 the online-journal Frankfurter elektronische Rundschau zur Altertumskunde (Frankfurt electronic Review of Antiquity) or FeRA has been accessible here. Now in its tenth issue... stefan krmnicek

An Archaeological Metaphysics of Care. On epistemography, heritage ecologies and the isotopy of the past(s)

Archaeolog - Fri, 05/14/2010 - 10:10
A discussion yesterday with Bruno Latour, after his presentation "Manifesto for Compositionalism" at Oxford, hinged upon how we go about composing our collective world now that 'nature' is no longer an organizing category. The difficulty for analyses is that the... Timothy Webmoor http://www.webmoor.com
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