After a longer break, book reviews are back! To start off the new year I chose one of the most anticipated releases of the last year: Penny… Read more “Book review (5): Penny Bickle & Emilie Sibbesson (eds.), Neolithic Bodies (Neolithic Studies Group Seminar Papers), 2018.”
Notes on my experience of applying for a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship
Soon will be the usual time of year to start working on a Marie Skłodowska-Curie application. This was also the case for me four years ago, a journey… Read more “Notes on my experience of applying for a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship”
Best Nonfiction & Graphic Novels read this year
An ethnographic exploration of an almost Sci-Fi universe: that of cryogenically preserved heads, futurists and the transhumanist movement. Shortlisted for The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2017… Read more “Best Nonfiction & Graphic Novels read this year”
Summary of EAA2018 #S151 ‘Boundary bodies: Critically thinking the body in contemporary (osteo)archaeology’
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”
Bodies and academia 