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Part 1 of Moving on to Mobility: Archaeological Ambulations on the Mobile World
Ho-Yeol Ryu. Flughafen (2005). This is the first of four pieces on movement in archaeology. It part of an extended conversation that circulated around the authors’ co-chaired session on ‘movement’ at...
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Giordano Bruno and St. Nick by the Fire
Santa Claus (courtesy of Coca-Cola ®) Since this is Christmas Eve, it might do well to try following a Christmas tradition. Or perhaps its intriguing antithesis in this brief speculation. Giordano...
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The Complexity of Making within Disciplinary Traditions: Some Considerations...
Elizabeth Murphy, Brown University In a recent article entitled “The Textility of Making,” Tim Ingold deconstructs what he describes as the hylomorphic model of creation (2010). This model views the...
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A review of Bjørnar Olsen: In Defense of things. Archaeology and the ontology...
During the last decade, three books have appeared that mark a turning point in the way archaeology is both thought and practiced. These three books are Theatre/Archaeology (Pearson and Shanks 2001),...
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Part 2 of Moving on to Mobility: archaeological ambulations on the mobile world
Marey’s chronophotographic gun (1882). OBSERVATION “How does this [materialisation of movement] work for us and contend with moving projects in the way that Latour and Yaneva think about it in ‘Give...
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Part 3 of Moving on to Mobility: Archaeological Ambulations on the Mobile World
(Potsdamer Platz: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_102-00843,_Berlin,_Verkehrsturm_auf_dem_Potsdamer_Platz.jpg) IN-BETWEENESS and CHIASMA “... it is an aspect of time (as you say),...
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Call for Papers CHAT 2011: Boston University 'People and Things in Motion'....
To mark the first Contemporary and Historical Archaeology in Theory (CHAT) conference to take place outside of the British Isles, the 2011 conference theme will explore people and things in motion in...
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TAG 2010 Session Review: An Artful Integration? Possible futures for...
Mhairi Maxwell (AGES, University of Bradford) m.l.maxwell@brad.ac.uk Patrick Hadley (Enkyad Heritage Media) patrick@enkyadheritagemedia.co.uk This archaeolog reviews the session ‘An Artful Integration:...
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OUTPOST exhibition | Call for contributions
Sara Perry (University of Southampton) s.e.perry@soton.ac.uk Ian Kirkpatrick (University of Southampton) iankirkpatrick@shaw.ca OUTPOST Curators: Ian Kirkpatrick & Sara Perry University of...
View ArticleANT, Ants, and Archaeology: A Meditation on Uncertainty
Maria O'Connell, Texas Tech University maria.oconnell@ttu.edu In the video clip, a team examines an underground structure somewhere in Brazil. The team is preparing for excavation. Bert Hölldobler and...
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Part 4 of Moving on to Mobility: Archaeological Ambulations on the Mobile World
Motion capture of superimposed images of a moving pole (Étienne-Jules Marey c.1900) Fluid interdependence “While the body moves, movement is not only in the body, but in the world around ...” (Posted...
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Object orientations? A commentary on Graham Harman's intervention in STS and...
Graham Harman diagrams the 'fourfold' object for STSers and archaeologists at the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society, Oxford Graham Harman recently visited Oxford for a week as part of a...
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Science and Technology Studies (STS) and Anthropology: What is the status of...
"The goal of descriptive adequacy is unattainable but continually haunts the endeavor, lying alongside, but in another time, and speaking back, like the immaterial ghosts of prophecy or the value of a...
View ArticleExperimenting with the Dérive Experience of Landscapes
This is an excerpt from a portion of a paper entitled "Three Cities: thinking through embodied archaeologies with experiments in psychogeography and urban design" which I gave at TAG Berkeley back in...
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Manifesto for archaeology of flow
Map of part of the Lower Mississippi meander belt (Fisk 1944, United States Army Corps of Engineers) Flowing water, like air, tends to be regarded as immaterial. Anything that is fluid, anything that...
View ArticleArchaeolog.org: 2005 to 2011 to . . .
Timothy Webmoor and Christopher Witmore Last month archaeolog.org turned six years old. And in the blogging world this ripe old age is quite an accomplishment – a veritable geezer. But this birthday...
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Archaeology of a fugitive: the cave of “El Castrin”, a deserter who became an...
Luca Pisoni PhD pisoni.gaetano@gmail.com Introduction The use of different sources in the archaeology of the contemporary past allows us to obtain interdisciplinary perspectives on similar issues and...
View ArticleArthur’s O’on: A Lost ‘Wonder’ of Britain, Part 1
Darrell J. Rohl (d.j.rohl@durham.ac.uk) Department of Archaeology Durham University Near the end of the twelfth century Ralph de Diceto, dean of St. Paul’s Cathedral in London, transcribed a tract...
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On objects and habits
blog Abandoned writing implements in an abandoned small house in Southern Finland. Marko Marila, 2009. There are, I think, two types of philosophies that have set the agenda for archaeological theory...
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William Rathje (July 1, 1945 - May 24, 2012)
(Image by Louis Psihoyos) Bill Rathje passed away on May 24th – just over a month shy of his 67th birthday. Everyone who knew Bill well loved him. And there was a lot to love about him. A kind and...
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