Egypt
Archaeology Magazine
- Book Review: Ideologies In Archaeology
About.com (Review by K. Kris Hirst) Bernbeck R, and McGuire RH, editors. 2011. Ideologies in Archaeology. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. 311 p. in 14 chapters; 99 additional pages of bibliography, contributor biographies and an index. ISBN 978-0-8165-2673-4...
- Petition Opposes Upenn Layoffs
Daily Pennsylvanian (Kathy Wang) These days, finding a balance between academics and economics is crucial. That balance motivated the museum's administrators to discontinue 18 research specialist positions at the Penn Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology...
- Experimental Archaeology Conference
As regular visitors know, I rarely promote conferences (unless specifically asked) because EEF have a detailed listing in their weekly News Digest, which is much more comprehensive than anything I could pull together but this one is a bit out of the ordinary....
- Experimental Archaeology Day Conference
http://www.sogaer.ex.ac.uk/archaeology/conferences/present/exp2007.shtmlI don't usually cover conferences (EEF are so much better at it), but I thought that this was one that was unlikely to be picked up by Egyptology information services, as it is...
- Book Review: The Archaeology Of Early Egypt
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/prehistoric/reviews/06_08_wengrow.htm A detailed review by Alice Stevenson of David Wengrow's The Archaeology of Early Egypt: "The Archaeology of Early Egypt is ambitious in scope covering the period from the end of the last Ice...
Egypt
Blogging Archaeology and the Archaeology of Blogging
Archaeology Magazine
William R. Caraher decided to start a blog about his archaeology project in Cyprus. Never having run or visited a blog before, he set out to find out more about it. This entertaining article, in four parts, is his review of the whole subject of blogging in academic archaeology. Part 3 is also a great way of finding out about new archaeology blogs - I found several, of which I had never heard of before, that were of considerable interest to me. Here's an extract from his conclusion:
See the above page for the full story.
This uneven character of blogs is what distinguishes them from more formal academic writing, but is also what makes them such a compelling medium. Most academics, after all, drift between the mundane world of daily life and the obscure concerns of their research and writing. The idiosyncratic and uneven cadence of academic blogging perhaps brings out these juxtaposed facets of their lives better than anywhere else.
See the above page for the full story.
- Book Review: Ideologies In Archaeology
About.com (Review by K. Kris Hirst) Bernbeck R, and McGuire RH, editors. 2011. Ideologies in Archaeology. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. 311 p. in 14 chapters; 99 additional pages of bibliography, contributor biographies and an index. ISBN 978-0-8165-2673-4...
- Petition Opposes Upenn Layoffs
Daily Pennsylvanian (Kathy Wang) These days, finding a balance between academics and economics is crucial. That balance motivated the museum's administrators to discontinue 18 research specialist positions at the Penn Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology...
- Experimental Archaeology Conference
As regular visitors know, I rarely promote conferences (unless specifically asked) because EEF have a detailed listing in their weekly News Digest, which is much more comprehensive than anything I could pull together but this one is a bit out of the ordinary....
- Experimental Archaeology Day Conference
http://www.sogaer.ex.ac.uk/archaeology/conferences/present/exp2007.shtmlI don't usually cover conferences (EEF are so much better at it), but I thought that this was one that was unlikely to be picked up by Egyptology information services, as it is...
- Book Review: The Archaeology Of Early Egypt
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/prehistoric/reviews/06_08_wengrow.htm A detailed review by Alice Stevenson of David Wengrow's The Archaeology of Early Egypt: "The Archaeology of Early Egypt is ambitious in scope covering the period from the end of the last Ice...