Forging Identities volume 1- intro Vand

Vkilde et al.pdf andkilde, H, Hansen, S. Kotsakis, K., Kristiansen, K., Müller, J., Sofaer J. & Sørensen, M.L.S. “Cultural Mobility in Bronze Age Europe”. In: Suchowska-Ducke, P, Reiter S. S. & Vandkilde, H. (eds.). Forging Identities. The Mobility of Culture in Bronze Age Europe. Report from a Marie Curie Project 2009-2012 with Concluding Conference at Aarhus University, Moesgaard 2012. Volume 1: p. 5-37. BAR International Series S2771. Oxford: Hadrian Books.

The Nature of Archaeological Knowledge and Its Ontological Turns

This is a commentary to a discussion paper by Tim Flohr Sørensen: ‘The Two Cultures and a World Apart: Archaeology and Science at a new Crossroads’ on the perceived dangers of the science turn in archaeology. I argue that the history of archaeology has witnessed several such debates about the nature of archaeological knowledge, and that archaeology is situated between humanities and science. Over time archaeology has progressed in a constant dialectic between humanities and science, but in the process relative knowledge has been transformed into absolute knowledge (C14 dating, aDNA), and…

Intangible Heritage: A challenge to the authorised heritage discourse

The Unesco Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage has significantly raised international and community awareness of the legitimacy of the concept of intangible heritage. Although, in raising this awareness, the Convention has not yet provided a framework that privileges the community/sub-national orientation of intangible heritage. This paper argues that definitions and ideas of heritage developed by national and international agencies such as UNESCO and ICOMOS need challenging and reconsidering. The dichotomy between tangible and intangible heritage needs…

The Postcolonial Turn. Re-Imagining Anthropology and Africa

This innovative book is a forward-looking reflection on mental decolonisation and the postcolonial turn in Africanist scholarship. As a whole, it provides five decennia-long lucid and empathetic research involvements by seasoned scholars who came to live, in local people’s own ways, significant daily events experienced by communities, professional networks and local experts in various African contexts. The book covers materials drawn from Botswana, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Africa and Tanzania. Themes include the Whelan Research Academy, rap…

L’ÂGE DU BRONZE DANS LA VALLÉE DE L’AISNE

The Transformation of Neolithic Societies. An eastern Danish perspective on the 3rd millennium BC, by Rune Iversen, 2015

Potts 2017 — The sale and lease of vineyards in Media Atropatene. Pp. 349-356 in Avetisyan, P.S. and Grekyan, Y.H., eds. BRIDGING TIMES AND SPACES: Festschrift in Honour of Gregory E. Areshian in Occasion of His 65th Birthday. Oxford: Archaeopress.

Las Grandes Piedras de la Prehistoria: Sitios y Paisajes Megalíticos de Andalucía [The Large Stones of Prehistory: Megalithic Sites and Landscapes of Andalusia]

The megalithic phenomenon is one of the most exciting subjects of study in prehistory. The practice of monumentalising places of special significance by erecting large stones was begun by the first agrarian societies on our continent during the Neolithic period, approximately 7,000 years ago. It acquired such a social and ideological depth that it became one of the most geographically and temporally widespread cultural phenomena ever known in Europe. In Andalusia, the megalithic sites and landscapes express themselves with great richness and diversity, constituting an exceptional source of…

A new manuscript of the letter of «Sîn-tillatī to Iddin-Dagan»

Nord-Sud III — Lyon 2018 — Appel à Communications

(IM)MOBILE ? Circulation, échanges des objets et des idées, mobilités, stabilités des personnes et des groupes durant la Pré- et Protohistoire en Europe occidentale Troisièmes Rencontres Nord-Sud de Préhistoire récente — Lyon 29-30 novembre — 1er décembre 2018 Colloque commun APRAB / InterNéo / RMPR