This year at the 24th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists in Barcelona I had the pleasure to organise a very good session with Liv Nilsson Stutz… Read more “Summary of EAA2018 #S151 ‘Boundary bodies: Critically thinking the body in contemporary (osteo)archaeology’”
Book review (4): Ben Haggarty & Adam Brockbank, Mezolith, Volume 1, 2016 [2010].
You wake up one morning, look around, and it’s just another day in Mesolithic Britain. This is the premise of Mezolith (Volume 1), published by Archaia, 2016, 96pp.,… Read more “Book review (4): Ben Haggarty & Adam Brockbank, Mezolith, Volume 1, 2016 [2010].”
Book review (3): Jennifer Kerner, Manipulations Post-mortem du Corps Humain: Implications Archéologiques et Anthropologiques, 2018.
This week I am quickly looking at a recent French language academic title: Manipulations Post-mortem du Corps Humain: Implications Archéologiques et Anthropologiques by Jennifer Kerner, Sidestone Press, 380 pp.. Dr… Read more “Book review (3): Jennifer Kerner, Manipulations Post-mortem du Corps Humain: Implications Archéologiques et Anthropologiques, 2018.”
Book review (2): Nicola Ford, The Hidden Bones, 2018.
Today’s title up for review is a work of fiction, The Hidden Bones by Nicola Ford (Allison and Busby, 2018, 350 pages). Nicola Ford is the pen name of Dr… Read more “Book review (2): Nicola Ford, The Hidden Bones, 2018.”
Book review: Ruth Penfold-Mounce, Death, The Dead and Popular Culture, 2018.
This is the first entry in what I hope to become a regular series: flash book reviews, dealing with the dead in one way or another. I… Read more “Book review: Ruth Penfold-Mounce, Death, The Dead and Popular Culture, 2018.”
Summary of ‘Can science accommodate multiple ontologies? The genetics revolution and archaeological theory’ Workshop (11-12 June 2018)
This is a short summary of what happened earlier this week during the two days of the ‘Can science accommodate multiple ontologies? The genetics revolution and archaeological… Read more “Summary of ‘Can science accommodate multiple ontologies? The genetics revolution and archaeological theory’ Workshop (11-12 June 2018)”
On the recent ‘elongated’ Bavarian skulls and their supposed Balkan origin
‘Strange, elongated skulls reveal medieval Bulgarian brides were traded for politics’ reads a Sciencemag.org headline. More conservative, National Geographic captions the same news as: ‘Pointy Skulls Belonged… Read more “On the recent ‘elongated’ Bavarian skulls and their supposed Balkan origin”
‘The Frankenstein Chronicles’ TV series. Of bodies, scientists, and immortality
‘Through the desire of all parties concerned, to keep the affair from the public, at least for the present, or until we had farther opportunities for investigation… Read more “‘The Frankenstein Chronicles’ TV series. Of bodies, scientists, and immortality”
Dead bodies, just ‘bodies’, or bones? Thoughts on terminology when studying the past
‘I once had to play a game (part of an exhibition guided tour): to choose a word that defines myself and write it on my name tag…’… Read more “Dead bodies, just ‘bodies’, or bones? Thoughts on terminology when studying the past”
Speaking to the Dead: A Multiple Guest Post Influenced by Svetlana Alexievich
Originally posted on These Bones Of Mine:
This post and style has been influenced by Svetlana Alexievich’s Second-Hand Time: The Last of the Soviets (Время секонд хэнд) publication,…
