WOOSTER -- Four College of Wooster seniors and five alumni were among the more than 2,400 presenters at the 76th annual Society for American Archaeology meeting in Sacramento, Calif., recently. The SAA is one of the premier archaeological associations in the world and draws professionals, graduate students, and undergraduates from five continents," said P. Nick Kardulias, professor of sociology, anthropology and archeology at Wooster. "For undergraduates to present their research at the premiere archaeological event of the year in North America is an unparalled opportunity.
The processual method, precursor to the New Archaeology of the sixties, stressed an interpretive approach to archaeological finds with an emphasis on explaining the lived conditions behind the archaeological record. Here I am an aestheticist (which I have yet to be convinced any one of them, from Stephens on down, is). [...] when they, these professionals, are catching on (EP's 35 yr lag, surely), to the validity of the total life of a people as what cargo art discharges, I am the one who is arguing that the correct way to come to an estimate ofthat dense & total thing is not, again, to measure the walls of a huge city but to get down, before it is too late, on a flat thing called a map, as complete a survey as possible of all, all present ruins, small as most of them are.
Italian artist Akelo has what might be deemed a reverse Midas touch. Everything he handles does not turn to gold but, rather, as he works with the most alluring of metals, he creates works of unfading, untarnished beauty. After he applies this touch, a brilliant cross pendant or bracelet no longer exists simply as jewelry but as living laudation to artists and civilizations past; his handiwork not only possesses sublime visual symmetry but facilitates symmetry between eras, calling past greatness and present promise together in artistic accord. Coming up at the Museum of art and archaeology
For the $4 cost of admission - about the average price of a pack of Pokemon cards or a handful of iTunes downloads - 12-year-old Arterus Young learned what it was like to be an archeologist for a day. Young, a sixth-grader at McGary Middle School, was one of about 700 sixth-and seventh-grade students from the Evansville Vanderburgh School Corp. and Warrick County on hand Friday at Angel Mounds State Historic Site for the annual "Archaeology C.S.I." - cultural scene investigation - day. He watched as experts demonstrated excavations, how Native American artifacts went from the ground to the water-screening process that cleans them and finally to the university laboratory to be logged and stored.
He isn't Indiana Jones, but the work of University of Pittsburgh professor Jeffrey H. Schwartz could invite comparisons. Schwartz, a physical anthropologist, is honored in the latest edition of Archaeology magazine for recording one of the field's top 10 finds of 2010. The journal hailed him as leader of a team that debunked a long-held claim of routine infant sacrifice in ancient Carthage.
Sometime around 10,000 B.C. the last great Ice Age came to an end. As the ice retreated, it left behind fertile lands and abundant plant life, which attracted both animals and humans. From that time to this, an unfolding story of life has played out across our valley, our state, our region.
GAINESVILLE, Mo., May 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- On the point of open access, collectors and some archaeologists do find common ground. In response to the American Institute of Archaeology's public stand against open access, the Open Access Archaeology organization has reported that they will be removing all links to AIA materials and will cease actively promoting AIA resources. In an open letter on the AIA web site, president Elizabeth Bartman takes aim at the Federal Research Public Access Act of 2012 introduced in both houses of Congress on February 9th. Bartman says, "We at the Archaeological Institute of America, along with our colleagues at the American Anthropological Association and other learned societies, have taken a stand against open access we particularly object to having su...
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