> Graduate student of the university of Poitiers, my own field of research is
> military history of modern periods ( XVIe- XVIIIe century ), and basically,
> according to academicals criterions, i'm an historian. But, as i refuse all
> arbitrary frontiers, and because i consider that military history, so as to
> better perceive the soldiers' condition of life and struggle, the realities
> of the battlefield, must go down of his tower, i follow archeological
> lessons of the professor Philippe Sénac, co-director of the national center
> of medieval research of Poitiers, specialist of Aragon frontier archeology.
> It means that i receive a  medieval archeological formation, not a modern
> one. Maybe i deceive you ? ;) Despite this particularity i can try to answer
> at the other questions. Concerning development of Archeology in France,
> don't imagine professional armies of archeologist. Most of the times
> excavations are led by amateurs, and each student of archeology know their
> weak chance to become a professional archeologist. At this moment, a lot of
> excavations are organised in urgence during urban or highway construction.
> It 's very hard to get an excavations' licence. These pessimistic
> observations must be tempered by the activities of the amateurs'associations
> and dynamism of the research. In universities, archeology provides a real
> labyrinth because sometimes you can have an independant department and,
> that's the case at Poitiers, next,a special group in History ( like medieval
>  archeology ), which depend of this department. Very confused,isn't it ?
> Concerning the regional'activities i must confess my ignorance, but i know
> existance of many associations, which gather together amateurs and
> professional, as "la société des antiquaires de l'Ouest", alias Society of
> West antique dealer.
> Excuse my question but what is the SHA or the SPMA ?

Luc,

SHA = Society for Historical Archaeology
(Etats-Unis; http://www.sha.org/)

SPMA = Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology 
(Grande Bretagne; http://www.britarch.ac.uk/spma/index.html)

Aussi...
IJHA = International Journal of Historical Archaeology 
(Etats-Unis; http://www.ilstu.edu/~ceorser/ijha.html)


Et connaissez-vous le livre "L'archeologie historique aux Etas-Unis" par
Maria-Teresa Penna?
Editions du CTHS (90FFr), [log in to unmask]
"Indispensable aux archeologues, ce livre est egalement destine aux
historiens des Etats-Unis et aux des Etats-Unis et aux politologues,
dans la mesure ou l'evolution de l'archeologie historique illustre celle
de la societe americaine et le passage d'une ideologie du consensus au
multiculturalisme."


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Alasdair Brooks
Department of Archaeology
University of York
King's Manor
York
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England, UK

phone: 01904 433931
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