archaeology
Book Review: Stele èn Aiguille by Anaïs Vinary
Stele èn Aiguille by Anaïs Vinary is the result of her Master Thesis in Prehistoric Archaeology, defended in 2025 at the University of Geneve. But this book is much more than simply the review of a Master’s Thesis. It is the product of combining scientific analysis and creative curiosity. I found it a fascinating book; visually attractive and very inspiring...
Conference Review: RAC/TRAC 2026, Aarhus, Denmark, 21-23 May
The Roman Society (Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies) and the Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference (TRAC) jointly hosted this conference. The Roman Society has been organising biennial conferences since 1995. TRAC was planned in 1991 as a one-off event but due to interest it became an annual fixture until joining the RAC in 1995, organised by the Roman Society...
Conference Review: EXARC at the EAA, Belfast, September 2023
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The purpose of the session, co-chaired by Brendan O’Neill and Rena Maguire (UCD) and Giovanna Fregni, was to bring together researchers working in different fields who engage in experimental archaeology as part of their work. Its aim was to fuse experimental and experiential archaeology with reconstructing past narratives. The session was well-attended, and not only because of the bespoke EXARC biscuits! The papers were divided into the categories of organic materials, pyrotechnic processes, and educational and cultural significance.
Book Review: Experimentelle Archäologie in Europa, Jahrbuch 2023
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Annual Proceedings of the EXAR Tagung
***The periodical is published by Gunter Schöbel and the European Association for the Advancement of Archaeology by Experiment e. V. (Europäische Vereinigung zur Förderung der Experimentellen Archäologie) in collaboration with the Pfahlbaummuseum Unterhuldingen...
***The periodical is published by Gunter Schöbel and the European Association for the Advancement of Archaeology by Experiment e. V. (Europäische Vereinigung zur Förderung der Experimentellen Archäologie) in collaboration with the Pfahlbaummuseum Unterhuldingen...
Book Review: Technology and Experimentation in Archaeology by Sara Cura et al.
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Are chaîne opératoire, technology, and experimental protocols and methodology keywords to your research interests? Technology and Experimentation in Archaeology provides international perspectives and excellent case studies on those very subjects...
Indian Students’ and Teachers’ Perceptions and Attitudes to Archaeological Content in History Textbooks
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History is a record of past events, activities, situations, and processes. As a subject, it helps students in understanding not only who they are and where they came from, but it also offers them an opportunity to make informed decisions about present issues and future developments. History also teaches responsible citizenship, and develops critical thinking and problem-solving skills...
Taking Archaeological Concepts outside the Social Science Class in Indian Schools
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In Indian classrooms, social sciences receive disproportionately less attention than natural sciences and mathematics (Dahiya, 2003; Lall and House, 2005; Roy, 2017). History features within the social science textbooks in India, and is perceived as boring and uninteresting by school children (Roy, 2017; Dahiya, 2003); archaeology is taught as part of the history lessons and is most often not seen as...
Experimental Archaeology in the Scottish Highlands
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Over the past year, Archaeology for Communities in the Highlands (ARCH) has been running a series of experimental archaeology workshops in the Scottish Highlands. ARCH is a non-profit educational charity, providing learning opportunities inside and out for all ages, always with an eye on the legacy of the event. Our experimental archaeology project was a good example of this approach...
Obituary: Steve Watts (25 July 1947 - 21 March 2016)
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I first met Steve in the summer of 1990. I was a student at University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNCC) following a summer course in anthropology called Southeastern Indians. The course included several field trips, one of which was to the Schiele Museum where we visited the Catawba Village and listened to a presentation by Steve Watts...
The Best Way of Preserving Something is to Educate about it - Educational Centres in South Africa
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This article aims to show the kind of issues South- African archaeologists have, working with public archaeology. A past that was segregated earlier should now be shared, but sharing a common past includes alternative perspectives on history and archaeology, for the archaeologist as well as for the public.