Welcome to the new website of our lab and studio at Stanford University – projects in research creation Welcome to our network of colleagues, friends and collaborators, projects, aspirations, and hopes. This is a new version of an online presence, combining elements of what was previously called metamedia@Stanford, archaeolog, and archaeography.com. There will be regular…
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Manifesto for archaeology of flow
an extract from a new book on the archaeology of rivers and other flows of materials. It argues that rivers are as susceptible to archaeological and historical analysis as more solid parts of landscapes are.
Call for Papers CHAT 2011: Boston University ‘People and Things in Motion’. November 11 – 13 2011
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 both the historical and contemporary pasts
Northern conversations
The CHAT Conference at the University of Aberdeen, November 12th-14th, 2010 Union Square from the Citadel, Aberdeen. Photo taken by Lyn Mcleod and licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license. The Contemporary and Historical Archaeology in Theory Conference (CHAT for short) takes a different guise wherever it goes. This year it was…
Archaeologists should grapple with the anthropocene too…
In its complex reflexivities, its multiple feedback loops, and its inextricable entanglement of nature and culture, the anthropocene is a geological epoch like no other. The difficult task of understanding it should not be left entirely to biochemists, geologists, climatologists and other natural scientists. Archaeologists should grapple with the anthropocene too…..
Fields of artifacts: archaeology of contemporary scientific discovery
The times when artifacts come to light – the moments of discovery as it were – are crucial moments in that they precipitate discussion and argument amongst scientists about what is real and what is not, what is natural and what is artificial, how the artifacts got to be there, how to interpret them, and what to do about them.