Egypt
Left Coast Press
Making Archaeology Happen: Design versus Dogma
Martin Carver (Author)
184 pp. / 6.00 x 9.00 / Sep, 2011
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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...
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- Left Coast Summer Hardback Sale
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- Obituary: Bruce Trigger
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-2490240,00.html"Bruce Trigger was a leading expert in three distinct fields of archaeology: as a historian of the discipline; as an Egyptologist; and as an authority on the aboriginal cultures of ancient North...
Egypt
New Book: Making Archaeology Happen
Left Coast Press
This being Martin Carver (he of Sutton Hoo) it is probably a UK-centric book (I haven't read it yet) but it's an interesting, widely relevant topic.
Making Archaeology Happen: Design versus Dogma
Martin Carver (Author)
184 pp. / 6.00 x 9.00 / Sep, 2011
‘Archaeology is for people’ is the theme of this book. Split between the academic and commercial sectors, archaeological investigation is also deeply embedded in the needs of local communities, making it simultaneously an art, science and social science. Such a multi-disciplinary discipline needs special methods and creative freedom, not repetitive responses. Carver argues that commercial procedures and academic theory are both suffocating creativity in fieldwork. He’d like to see us bring much more diversity and technical ingenuity to every opportunity, and maintains this is more a matter of getting ourselves free of dogma than needing more time and money. This has many implications for the way archaeology is designed and procured – moving archaeologists up the professional ladder from builder to architect, with contracts based on quality of design, not the price.
- 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...
- Book Review: Describing And Interpreting The Past
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Reviewed by Sveta Matskevich) Cătălin Pavel, Describing and Interpreting the Past: European and American Approaches to the Written Record of the Excavation. Bucureşti: Editura Universităţii din Bucureşti While...
- Left Coast Summer Hardback Sale
Left Coast Press Most of these are not relevant to Egyptology but some of them look at archaeological methodologies and ideas as a whole, which might be of interest to some of you. I've left the entire list as it was sent to me in case some of you...
- A New Dedicated Social Network Purely For Archaeologists, Has Been Launched This Month
Live-PR I haven't joined this because I am really not into the whole online social networking thing, (I'm not even on Facebook) but I noticed a lot of familiar faces there when I had a look at the home page. If anyone is using the site perhaps...
- Obituary: Bruce Trigger
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-2490240,00.html"Bruce Trigger was a leading expert in three distinct fields of archaeology: as a historian of the discipline; as an Egyptologist; and as an authority on the aboriginal cultures of ancient North...