Archaeological theory and practice

In this article, we suggest that archaeologists should recognise the limitations of the term ‘‘artefact’’, because it does not capture the many ways that diverse groups think about and interact with such objects. There are two important reasons for doing this. First, as we show through numerous examples, archaeologists’ conception of portable material objects as ‘‘artefacts’’ is narrow and unlikely to align with the conceptions by the people who left them behind. Second, like the terms ‘‘prehistory’’ and ‘‘human remains’’, ‘‘artefact’’ is a settler-colonialist construct that elevates Western scientific jargon above terminology that other stakeholders may see as more respectful or appropriate. As an alternative to the term ‘‘artefact’’, this article explores ‘‘belongings’’ as a way to open up understandings of the many different meanings associated with archaeological objects and to refer more inclusively to them in diverse contexts.

While clandestine distillation has long been a part of the history and identity of the South, archaeological investigations of moonshining have been comparatively recent and sporadic in nature. Archaeological attempts to study the ephemeral remains of moonshining have been primarily concentrated in Appalachia, despite compelling evidence from the South Carolina Lowcountry that moonshining represented a major historical and economic phenomenon. This article will explore the regional nuances of still site patterning and the connections between clandestine economies, memory, and the formation of the Francis Marion National Forest in constructing a historical narrative of Lowcountry identity.

Radical democracy informs contemporary social movements both as critique of existing liberal democratic social orders and as inspiration for collective action to challenge power structures. However, existing approaches on the relationship between radical democracy and social movements often truncate complex sociopolitical issues, constraining political imagination and stifling ‘truly radical’ alternatives. This Element offers an analysis of contemporary social movements in Colombia and Türkiye to show the limits and potential of radical democracy to reimagine new expressions of citizenship and non-capitalist alternatives. It argues that there is a mismatch between the radical democratic paradigm as it is formulated within Eurocentric purview and the ways it has been articulated and practised by anti-austerity and pro-democracy movements of the twenty-first century. This Element proposes that radical democracy should be rethought in light of novel forms of political activism and visions emerging from these social movements as a response to the failures of liberal democracy.

Vere Gordon Childe, reconegut com un dels prehistoriadors més influents en el desenvolupa-ment de l'Arqueologia com a Ciència, va morir tot just fa 50 anys, el 19 d'octubre de 1957. En aquest número de COTA ZERO hem volgut no tan sols commemorar ...

The American Anthropological Association defines anthropology as the study of what makes us human. Anthropology has four subfields, of which archaeology is one. Experimental archaeology is one of many subdivisions of archaeology. The name experimental archaeology itself delineates that some aspects of experimentation occur. The scientific method incorporates experiments to generate data to validate or refute a hypothesis. Experimental archaeology has evolved from its historical definition to what it is today. It has developed from simple experiments in archaeology to include interpretation of those results from experimentation.
Experimental Archaeology uses more controlled and likely reductive experiments in the lab as well as field experiments, which are less well controlled, using the scientific method, to produce data to inform us of the human experience, based on questions raised by the material culture left behind by humans. Experimental archaeology is making in the context of field experiments. Experimental archaeology is understanding. Experimental archaeology is not storytelling, in the sense of interpretation at museums.

as an onto logical category pertaining to later periods, especially the Hellenistic and Roman periods, is surprisingly limited. While individual monuments, religious architecture, public buildings, or certain aspects of elite material culture of Near Eastern cities have been studied in detail (for example,

technologies have deeply permeated the many layers of archaeology, leading to its profound reshaping. The very first step of the archaeological practice, namely field data collection, is also increasingly transitioning from traditional paper-based records to digital recording (Roosevelt et al. 2015). This session focuses on current data collection practices in archaeology, highlighting innovative strategies, challenges, and emerging trends. It aims to open a discussion on best practices appearing in the different specialties of field archaeology, from excavations to regional surveys and from rescue to research archaeology. In the context of rescue archaeology, where time constraints and the urgency to salvage information are paramount, digital technologies have facilitated the rapid and accurate documentation of threatened sites, enabling the creation of comprehensive digital records. Various archaeological services have also developed centralized recording systems aimed at standardizing data collection across different projects (Masson-MacLean et al. 2021; Montagnetti and Guarino 2021). Meanwhile, in research archaeology, multiple campaigns are often conducted year after year on the same sites by different teams. In this context, digital native recording provides an opportunity to standardize data (Boyd et al. 2021), in contrast to heterogeneous legacy datasets inherited from pre-digital practices that produced large amounts of paper records, photographs, hand-drawn maps and section drawings, which are often difficult to access or integrate with modern digital datasets. Archaeological survey is another field practice that strongly benefited from the integration of digital recording on the field. Because it produces large datasets and needs spatial data to be linked to attribute archaeological data, archaeological surveys have been perfect laboratories for developing digital practices linking archaeological records and location data in common databases with the introduction of mobile Geographic Information Systems (

The article is devoted to new methodological techniques in the study of widely known sites of the early stage of Alanic culture of the Central Ciscaucasia — Zilgi hillfort and Beslan kurgan catacomb burial ground (RNO — Alania). The use of satellite images, low-altitude aerial photography, photogrammetry and magnetometric survey made it possible to obtain fundamentally new information about these well-studied sites and to specify their topographic and planigraphic features in the shortest time with minimal destructions. The excavations carried out in two areas of the Beslan necropolis helped to considerably refine its chronological framework, trace the development of the necropolis from the Zilgi hillfort to the southeastern periphery and identify the area of the most recent graves dating from the middle of the 7th century AD, which were made near the eastern border of unfortified settlement of Zilgi. The non-destructive survey methodology tested by the team has wide prospects for t...

Michael Schiffer's Behavioral Archaeology is one of several moves in mid-to late twentieth century archaeology toward actualistically based, detailed materials analysis with the aim of developing uniformitarian principles to apply to archaeological cases. Substantial parallels exists between Schiffer's agenda and its products and those of at least some zooarchaeologists and taphonomists, including use of chaîne opératoire or behavioral chain approaches and experimentation, as well as other materials analysis agendas. Differences as well as similarities are explored, as are continued impediments to development of archaeology as a systematic science.

This study presents some preliminary results on early mediaeval glazed wares (mainly chafing dishes, bowls, and dishes) from five sites in the Eastern Mediterranean region. Through a series of analytical techniques, the goal is trifold: a) to contribute to the documentation of technological practices regarding the early-glazed byzantine production, b) possibly discern technological differences/choices within the sample set, and c) explore its provenance in an intra and inter-regional level (mainland Greece, Crete, Cyprus). This study incorporates data regarding the composition and texture of the ceramic bodies through ceramic petrography (TL-OM, RL-OM), the mineralogical profile of the samples through the application of X-ray diffraction (XRD), and imaging and chemical data regarding the ceramic body and its glaze layer through the application of SEM-EDS. By integrating samples from a broad geographical region, this study aspires to bridge the gap between Late Antique and Middle-Byzantine glaze traditions and to contribute to the ongoing effort of better understanding early byzantine lead-glazed ware technology, production, and distribution in the “Byzantine world” of the Early Middle Ages.

This thesis is an exploration of Nishnaabeg geography in what is now known as Southern Ontario that takes into consideration the dominating settler colonial context. Using a mixed method of textual document analysis, and embodied research, I develop a Nishnaabeg geography of a region colonized by a the Trent Severn Waterway (TSW), a large canal composed of several locks and dams that connect natural lakes, and dense settlement in the form of privately owned cottages. The TSW was integral to establishing settlement in the region and is commemorated as a part of Canada’s nation-building project over Indigenous lands. This research considers how the colonization of the water contributed to the creation of a built colonialscape and helped to spatialize Indigenous land relations as belonging “somewhere else.” I argue that in spite of these imagined spatializations, the Indigenous landscape continues to live on beneath the built colonialscape in geographical layers.

It has been exactly 40 years since the publication of one of the earliest ARC issues: Volume 2:1 Archaeology and the Public (1983), emerged from a Theoretical Archaeology Group conference put on by Mike Parker Pearson and others in 1982. Our publication likewise has strong theoretical underpinnings. Archaeology as a discipline has never been more concerned with its positionality within public discourses and its relativity to different segments of the publics. This is because the Information Age has brought with it new challenges with respect to what defines public spaces and who are accepted as authorities in these spaces (Stephens et al 2023). By pluralising the 'public' in our volume title, Archaeology and the PublicS, we hope to demonstrate and highlight the multivocality and diversity inherent in the public-and the opportunities and challenges that come with this diversity.

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In the relatively abundant bibliography on archaeological theory and epistemology the impact of archaeological practice on archaeological epistemology has remained somehow less explored despite the fact that in the last three decades archaeology has undergone radical changes in practice. We would like to point to three interconnected trends: an exceptional increase in the amount of archaeological fieldwork, the fact that probably more than 90% of all field projects are in the domain of heritage protection, and that archaeology has become a data-driven discipline, producing new circumstances which challenge the traditional epistemological views and require social epistemological rethinking. This paper aims to explore some social epistemological aspects in current archaeological practice in Slovenia where two rather distinctive groups of
archaeological researchers emerged, academic archaeologists and field professionals. The distinction between the two groups has grown since the late 1990s with the introduction of preventive archaeology, changes in legislation in heritage protection, and the development of the commercial sector in archaeology. These changes opened a series of questions on epistemic effects in new circumstances, e.g. how these two groups
contribute to archaeological knowledge, how their modes of obtaining knowledge are structured and organized, what social factors condition these modes, and, least but not last, the question of forms of epistemic asymmetries.

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Many new, or processual, archaeologists of the 1960s argued that Americanist archaeology became scientific only in the 1960s. The hypothesis that the rate of publication of archaeological research in Science and Scientific American increased after about 1965, as new archaeologists sought to demonstrate to their peers and other scientists that archaeology was indeed a science, is disconfirmed. The rate of archaeological publication in these journals increased after 1955 because the effort to be more scientific attributed to the processualists began earlier. Higher publication rates in both journals appear to have been influenced by an increased amount of archaeological research, a higher rate of archaeological publication generally, and increased funding. The hypothesis that editorial choice has strongly influenced what has been published in Science is confirmed; articles focusing on multidisciplinary topics rather than on narrow archaeological ones dominate the list of titles over t...

Our team, the archaeological section of the Medieval Art, History, Paleography and Archaeology research group (MAHPA) and part of the Laboratory of Medieval Archaeology of the University of Barcelona (LAM-UB), has been working on the field in the Tremp-Montsec area (an important part of the Orígens UNESCO Global Geopark in Lleida, Catalonia) for more than 25 years now (Alegría et al., 2019). Since some years ago, other sites from around Catalonia have been added, and we now have three undergoing intervention projects that include 13 archaeological sites with chronologies that range from the 7th to the 17th century, most of them located in the Catalan Pre-Pyrenees. 

Since the early 2000 this team has been eager to implement and use emerging technologies. Our main motivations have been ameliorating data analysis and interpretation, fostering dissemination and public engagement, but also overcoming the challenges that our work implies: mountain sites that are difficult to access, lack of time and, especially, short funding. With these goals in mind, we have been using for some years 3D reconstruction tools, GIS, databases and 3D digital recording methods. These new techniques and methods, applied both to our field and laboratory work, have profoundly changed our workflow. The use of new tools to process and work with those data are also fostering the interpretation exercise and helping build archaeological and historical knowledge (Costa & Sancho, in press). However, their implementation by fits and starts, the lack of funding to provide proper training to our team (or to have a specialist on the matter), and the dramatic growth our site set has undergone in the last few years (from 2 active sites in 2014 to 11 excavation and 4 survey sites in 2022) left in result a slightly chaotic, Frankenstein-like flow that combines both digital and analogic processes, with a lack of standard procedures (differences in the recording and processing methodology amongst the different sites), high risk of miscommunication, and redundant data. 

The field data is currently recorded mostly on paper (stratigraphic context information) or by digital means or tools (topographic data, graphic data). For some specific excavations, a database (running on a tablet) is updated on-site. The finds and artifacts are later studied in the Medieval Archaeology Laboratory (LAM-UB) and the data collected from their analysis is normally registered in internal simple databases or Excel files. In 2018, a new recording methodology was introduced to all site excavations within the project. Since then, all stratigraphic contexts are being recorded with georeferenced photogrammetry, creating 3D models that are the core of the documentation of those contexts that are now already destroyed. This new methodology is giving great results in terms of accuracy and efficiency, and is now opening a great deal of possibilities, even though it is now mostly used to produce 2D recording traditional results, such as archaeological planimetries and sections (Batlle et al., 2022). However, it also highlights the need to better document the digital data (which is more easily decontextualized) and to link it with all the related archaeological, landscape and historical data.

The new technologies implemented have been game-changing for our team, and the workflow described is giving us good results, as it allows us to work in a more efficient way and to record more and better data. However, we are aware it is not perfect: sometimes the data are not centralized nor interconnected, and, as they are processed, stored and managed by the site directors only, they end up in silos of information corresponding to each site. This hinders data integration and makes it difficult to analyze and understand the data in their completeness, which could prevent the main project goals from being properly reached. Currently, there are multiple and heterogenous datasets created and managed within the project (which include field data from different sites, 3D models, artifacts’ data, etc.) scattered across multiple locations, with or without proper backups and lacking an updated tracking or recording system. We are now facing a new problem: the management and preservation of a big (and growing) amount of data. 

We know positively that digital tools, techniques, and methods, although they may have been one of the causes of our current problems, are also the answer. However, it is clearer than ever that with great power comes great responsibility; an inappropriate implementation or a misunderstanding of their potential can do more harm than good, and the need to train ourselves to be able to adapt to the current challenges, and those yet to come, is becoming a crucial matter.

In our presentation, we will describe and map our current workflow(s) exploring how this slow implementation of the emerging digital technologies has been shaping it during the past decade and reassessing it. We will also evaluate all the positive and negative aspects that the digitization of the archaeological recording methods have brought us, pondering over the experience accumulated during these years, trying to extract valuable lessons from our (both good and bad) experiences, and drawing some future improvement lines –either on paper or on digital tools.


References

Alegría, Walter; Sancho i Planas, Marta; Soler, Maria. (2019) “Mountain communities in the Catalan Pyrenees: 25 years of archaeological research“. In: Brady, N.; Teune, C. (eds.) Settlement Change Across Medieval Europe Old Paradigms and New Vistas (Ruralia XII). Leiden: Sideston Press, pp. 81–90.

Costa, Xavier & Sancho, Marta [in press]. “La cartografía digital como herramienta dinámica E integrativa para el estudio del poblamiento medieval. La propuesta metodológica del proyecto Muntanya Viva”. Cuadernos de Arqueología de la Universidad de Navarra.

Batlle, Sabina; Coso, Júlia & Vallverdú, Jordi (2022). “Fotogrametria aplicada al registre arqueològic d'època medieval. Avantatges i limitacions” [Conference presentation]. II Congrés Internacional IRCVM: Digitalitzar l’edat mitjana, Barcelona, Spain.

Este ensayo explora las complejidades situacionales de mantener y transgredir los límites de las diferencias sociales. Mi experiencia dirigiendo un proyecto arqueológico en un área rural del Perú sugiere que mis interacciones con mis colaboradores peruanos estaban altamente impactadas y modificadas por dos de mis capas identitarias: ser mujer y extranjera.

Al comparar mis interacciones dentro de múltiples realidades sociales en el Perú, busco demostrar cómo todas las categorías de diferencias sociales, incluyendo el género, son construidas socialmente y dependen de las circunstancias. Usando un marco teórico interseccional, comparo mi identidad social con la de las mujeres de la comunidad campesina de Villa Hermosa-Atalla y comparo como mi estatus de extranjera y el estatus de pobreza y ruralidad de las mujeres locales quechua hablantes impactaron en las interpretaciones de nuestra identidad de género de forma diferente dentro de contextos específicos. Concluyo que realmente las mujeres de Atalla y yo habitamos identidades de género diferentes, las cuales están acompañadas por conjuntos discretos de expectativas y limitaciones sociales.

Finalmente, relato mis observaciones etnográficas para expresar el determinismo biológico en la sociedad y en la política peruana. Así, exploro cómo las categorías de diferencias sociales, tales como el género, se naturalizan. Para concluir, argumento que los conocimientos de género, que están enraizados en el determinismo biológico, presentan uno de los retos actuales para la igualdad de género dentro tanto de la academia peruana como en la sociedad en general, y ofrezco algunas recomendaciones para el futuro.

les poteries ont des parois plus épaisses que celles habituellement observées dans la poterie domestique, est interprété comme indiquant une tentative d'augmenter la résistance aux chocs thermiques. Cependant, les fragments ne présentent que de faibles signaux d'exposition à des températures élevées, jusqu'à un maximum de 900°C. L'évaluation de ces données contradictoires amène à la conclusion que ces tessons ont pu avoir fait partie d'un moule de briquetage pour l'extraction de sel par évaporation, une industrie pyrotechnique jusque-là inconnue dans le Sahara Occidental. Son apparition dans un environnement aride loin des centres de production s'explique par une activité économique sporadique plutôt que par une mobilité et un commerce interculturels, apparemment intenses dans la région après le Néolithique. En outre, cet article présente l'utilisation de la tomographie micro-calculée (µ-CT) comme technique de mesure de la grande porosité dérivant de matières organiques brûlées.

BOOK REVIEWS leaves an impression of the early years of molecular biology which is probably truthful for Europe, at least. Molecular biology still had to claim the right of independence from biochemistry and genetics. Although major biochemical journals were published in the United States, JMB was a European adventure. As molecular biology became an established field, its scope grew to absorb cell biology and development. New journals were created and 1MB had to face strong competition after a long period of near-monopoly. Nowadays, authors are still attracted by its reputation, by the high technical quality of Ancient bees and bronzes Clive Gamble Economic Prehistory.

This is the second volume of a study on contemporary geographical thought or geophilosophy of modernity, whose methodological framework is characterized by three goals. The first is general education and refers to the need of students of the II cycle of geography studies, in terms of theoretical foundation, to expand their knowledge of contemporary geographical thought. The second goal concerns interdisciplinarity in modern social-humanistic research (propaedeutic framework), based on which students should acquire ideas about the interdependence of specific scientific disciplines (philosophy, social theory, economics, history, psychology, geography). Finally, the third goal has a more practical/political-geographical meaning. It refers to the understanding of turning social events in the modern history of Europe (world wars, economic crises, social stratification), and in the background of which there were significant social-geographic disagreements caused by political-geographical ambitions of vital political actors (colonialism, imperialism, class, and race relations). This third goal is due to the current political-geographical situation in Europe. The author allows readers to think about the sustainability of existing solutions (democratic and spatial functional) and their analogy with historically similar problems on European soil. It implies two spatial scales, large (geopolitical) and small (sustainability of the development of local communities), where a valuable tool for orientation is represented by the elements of Foucauldian geoepistemology, "space/power/knowledge."

This article discusses some of the central topics in ethnoarchaeology and approaches them from a Latin American perspective. The development of the subdiscipline is summarized and analyzed, and case studies in the region are provided. Moreover, since ethnoarchaeology in Latin America cannot be detached from the state of the discipline in the rest of the world, there are references to global developments that aim to contextualize these case studies. Some of the criticisms made against the subdiscipline are included as well, and they are discussed in the light of the current situation. Ethnoarchaeology’s contributions to the interpretation of the archaeological record and to theory building in archaeology are examined. It is concluded that one of the main contributions of ethnoarchaeology is the mitigation of the ethnocentrism that permeates the archaeological view of the people in the past and the interpretation of long-term human processes. With its particular purview on contemporar...

Keywords: archaeological reasoning, Extended Matrix, ATON framework.
Abstract
The process of the reasoning behind the available archaeological data is a very important segment in archaeological research. Whether it's about the decision-making process during the field activities, whether it's about publishing the results. Here, the experience of the team behind the excavation is of exceptional importance, and of course, the selection of appropriate and adequately applied methods, techniques, and technology for answering the existing questions. All in case of problematic approach in solving particular problems about the past.
However, despite the vast number of opportunities and tools for publishing the results from the field archaeological research, a significant part of the reasoning process upon which decisions are made, (why we approached this and no other way during excavation, or why we interpreted the data in this and not in another way) remains behind the curtains. Very often what we miss the most is a deliberate illumination of „the other possible and plausible solutions of the puzzle“, made by the one who acquired the data firsthand. Additionally, in absence of access to the raw archival documentation from a particular field research, much data with a significant potential to give side perspectives on the same data remain unreachable.
The subject of this presentation will be the evaluation of the potential for applying the logic standing behind Extended Matrix - The tool for virtual reconstruction in archaeology, in providing as much as possible - absolute insight in all the phases of the research process alongside the complete flow of the reasoning process. Also, the potential of the ATON framework for bridging the entire corpus of available data and providing efficient access to each particular piece of information in a virtual user-friendly environment will be presented. We believe that both of these tools and systems have the potential to bring us a step forward to establishing efficient access to all the data available from and for archaeological field and cabinet research. The basic idea behind the proposed „excavation of another kind is“, that every researcher interested in the same contexts and the same material should have as clear as possible view of the degree of relevance of all the data used for interpretation, alongside the process of the reasoning behind the interpretations presented in a publication. All because very often, the interpretations of the material that remain from the past are presented as absolute truths without the presentation of the minimum needed argumentation. Additionally, the opportunities to use the same data, and the same approach in training professionals in field archaeology will be discussed.

ArcheomaticA N°4 dicembre 2015 UNIVERSITÀ E RICERCA l'arCheoloGia a volo d'uCCello un report dal SeCondo ConveGno di arCheoloGia aerea di Valerio Carlucci incontro fra i tanti studiosi e appassionati di Archeologia Aerea, articolatosi nelle sale dell'Accademia Belgica, ha visto la partecipazione di molte personalità del settore provenienti da diverse località europee. L'Apertura dei lavori e gli indirizzi di saluto sono stati affidati a Wouter Bracke

The paper is devoted to the problem of the development level and organization models of mining within the Eurasian metallurgical province of the Late Bronze Age in the 2nd millennium BC. The main research aim is to determine the chain of technological processes taking place at the Novotemirsky ancient mine in the Southern Trans-Urals. The sources of raw materials, traces of use, and functional identification of stone (n=58) and bone tools (n=1) were determined using traceological, petrographic, X-ray fluorescence, and X-ray diffraction analysis. All tools were divided into three groups depending on their use: mining (a casting mould for a pick), ore crushing (hammers, small hammers), supporting devices (“bases”, counterweights for lifting ore). The absence of mining and processing (grinding pestles, grinding stones) and metal-working (blacksmith hammers) tools at the Novotemirsky mine indicates a narrow range of technical operations associated only with direct mining of copper ore a...

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Cross-border cooperation between institutions of higher education is one of the goals of modern education, an important component of didactic and research activities. Over the past 30 years, such an initiative has been implemented several times during archaeological practices for students of Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University and «Ștefan cel Mare» University of Suceava. During this time, four student exchanges took place. The main practice bases in 1993 were the settlements of Chornivka in Ukraine and Târgu Frumos in Romania, in 1994 – the settlements of Revne and Siret, and in 2006 and 2007 – the Khotyn fortress and the settlement of Fetești – La Schit. The periods of joint practice lasted for 10 days, were related to the solution of certain organizational issues and allowed to realize a number of important educational goals.

The article is devoted to new methodological techniques in the study of widely known sites of the early stage of Alanic culture of the Central Ciscaucasia — Zilgi hillfort and Beslan kurgan catacomb burial ground (RNO — Alania). The use of satellite images, low-altitude aerial photography, photogrammetry and magnetometric survey made it possible to obtain fundamentally new information about these well-studied sites and to specify their topographic and planigraphic features in the shortest time with minimal destructions. The excavations carried out in two areas of the Beslan necropolis helped to considerably refine its chronological framework, trace the development of the necropolis from the Zilgi hillfort to the southeastern periphery and identify the area of the most recent graves dating from the middle of the 7th century AD, which were made near the eastern border of unfortified settlement of Zilgi. The non-destructive survey methodology tested by the team has wide prospects for t...

The transition to the Late Neolithic (c. 2350 BCE) is characterised by large-scale cultural and economic changes across southern Norway, connected to the spread of a cultural package with an unprecedented homogeneity, consisting of the introduction of the two-aisled houses, farming and several new technologies. Although material components belonging to this cultural package spread fast in southern Norway, the Oslo Fjord area included, there has been a lack of (two-aisled) houses and clear evidence of the breakthrough of farming in this area. In this article, we aim to create a proxy for better understanding the agricultural developments and the trajectories of the early farm-based settlements in the aftermath of the LN revolution. This is done through studying the settlement material from three selected case areas around the Oslo Fjord, alongside a larger body of radiocarbon-dated buildings, cereals and cultivation layers. Our results show a delay in the onset of crop farming compar...

Human responses to climate change and resilience have long been a focus of archaeological research, but we are only starting to think about the degree to which our discipline should address the current climate crisis. Archaeologists are grappling with a multitude of challenges presented by climate change-issues such as the sustainability of the discipline, how to respond to heritage loss on a variety of scales, and how best to communicate actionable policy advice based on our research. Yet it is in our teaching where we can have the largest impact, by inspiring students toward activism. Building on Cobb and Croucher (2014; 2020), this session weaves together teaching and research practices to consolidate the relationship between archaeology and the climate crisis, and feed into a framework for archaeological and heritage education. We welcome contributions that explore creative solutions to questions such as: how can we convey the relevancy of climate change matters from the deep and recent pasts to the present? Can we teach sustainably? Can the effects of the current climate crisis in archaeology be examined in our teaching? We would also like to use this as a space to share best practice. Are you changing how you teach/practice archaeology in response to climate change and if so, how? Are you working with communities to think about heritage loss due to climate change, or engaged with multi-vocal co-creation and student leadership in teaching? Are you collaborating with other disciplines or professions to actively tackle the current climate crisis? Does this translate into your teaching (both within and outside the classroom)?

Contemporary archaeologies are complex and diverse. It is easier to find things that differentiateprehistoric archaeology, for example, (e.g. Childe 1929) from the archaeology of the contemporary past(Buchli and Lucas 2001) than to identify what both share. The same claim applies to a history ofarchaeology as such. To simplify, to indicate the differences between culture-historical archaeology,processual archaeology and post-processual archaeologies does not cause many problems (Trigger 2006).However, in this article I claim that these archaeologies use in a very same way the ideas of what ‘new’ and‘critique’ in archaeology are about. The thesis of this text is: there is usually not so much truly new in theideas that are described as new and innovative (Žižek 2008).

In our study, we offer an analysis of how the feminine nature is linked to life and death and is treated in Lars Von Trier's Antichrist (2009) and Darren Aronofsky's Mother (2017). The theoretical framework uses the contributions of Gilbert Durand for the study of the imaginary and the methodology is guided by a symbolic hermeneutics.

O presente trabalho descreve brevemente um projeto de extensão desenvolvido durante o ano de 2010 que busca resgatar parte do patrimônio intangível relacionado à atividade mineira na localidade de Sierras Bayas, localizada no sudeste da Província de Buenos Aires. O projeto implicou a elaboração de um documentário por parte dos alunos da Faculdade de Artes que cursavam disciplinas sobre desenho audiovisual. Registraram-se formas e práticas de trabalho que se originaram na Itália e foram instaladas naquele lugar por imigrantes. Em nosso caso, esse conhecimento mineiro é representado por uma família, que se transforma assim em representante de uma atividade de suma importância para a região e portadora de um valioso patrimônio cultural, tangível e intangível.

Der Band versammelt Beitrage zu einer mitteleuropaischen Asthetikgeschichte zwischen 1750 und 1850. Betrachtet man diese Epoche der Asthetik nicht unter der Vorgabe einer vom einschlagigen Kanon einer ›grosen Erzahlung‹ dominierten, sondern einer kontextualisierenden Sichtweise, kommt die sogenannte anthropologische Asthetik zum Vorschein. Als neuhumanistische Bildungsdisziplin erfreute sie sich zeitgenossisch gerade in Mitteleuropa einer grosen Verbreitung, verlor jedoch aus der Perspektive einer spateren, selektiven Philosophiegeschichtsschreibung ge- genuber der Asthetik des deutschen Idealismus an Ansehen. Der Sammelband enthalt Fallstudien zur anthropologischen Universitats- und Gymnasial- bzw. Zeitschriftenasthetik von deutschen, osterreichischen und ungarischen Asthetiker. Dabei stehen die Wege des Wissenstransfers innerhalb des grenzuberschreitenden asthetischen Diskurses und die Frage, wie die behandelten Asthetiker ins Netzwerk des asthetischen Wissens eingebunden waren, i...

O artigo teve como objetivo classificar, analisar e especializar o nível de modernidade agrícola das microrregiões do estado da Bahia. Foi utilizado o Índice de Modernidade Agrícola (IMA) como indicador construído a partir de estatística multivariada, especificamente, análise fatorial com dados do Censo Agropecuário de 2006. A partir dos escores fatoriais foi construído o IMA que evidenciou a presença de heterogeneidade estrutural tecnológica no segmento agrícola no território baiano. Das 32 microrregiões, 18 apresentaram IMA inferior à média, caracterizando a convivência de bolsões de modernidade agrícola com microrregiões à margem do desenvolvimento tecnológico. Todas as microrregiões do extremo oeste baiano, fronteira agrícola do estado na região conhecida como MATOPIBA, onde predomina a produção de grãos voltados à exportação estão entre as microrregiões de elevado nível de modernidade bem como as microrregiões situadas ao sul do estado onde se concentram o segundo maior polo fl...

Este estudo tem como base o Art. 43 da Lei de Diretrizes e Bases de 1996 (LDB), tendo como eixos os paragrafos II ao V e o Plano Nacional de Graduacao de 1999 (PNG), com o objetivo de apontar que as comunidades digitais tambem sao usadas por alunos dos cursos superiores como meio de complementar o ensino e aprendizagem, e mostrar que nos dias atuais as tecnologias digitais fazem parte do ambiente escolar independentemente do nivel de escolaridade dos alunos. O presente trabalho e um relato de experiencia realizado com alunas do curso de Letras/Espanhol em uma instituicao superior privada no municipio de Itaperuna/RJ, atraves de uma comunidade criada na rede social Facebook com objetivo pedagogico para ensino-aprendizagem de lingua espanhola nas disciplinas especificas de Lingua Espanhola II e IV e Literaturas, buscando inserir as futuras docentes no contexto das Tecnologias Digitais da Informacao e Comunicacao (TDIC) como suporte para a sua atuacao posterior em sala de aula. Utilizo...