(apologies for cross-postings)
Hello!
The long-awaited second issue of *assemblage*, the Sheffield
graduate journal of archaeology, is now online at
http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/union/susoc/assem/
(or http://www.shef.ac.uk/~assem/ )
A table of contents has been included below.
And when you're there, check out assemblage-info
http://www.shef.ac.uk/~assem/2info.html
dedicated to providing a constantly updated information service
for the archaeological community at large and postgraduate students in
particular, currently listing details of *126* funding sources, *59*
conferences and links to *149* online archaeological bibliographies!
The info pages also offer a short selection of genuinely useful links
and cool archaeological web sites and coming soon will be info on
academic jobs, a news clippings service and schedules for
archaeological TV programmes.
Your comments on no.2 and you contributions for no.3 are, as always,
very welcome! We do hope that you'll visit soon!
Best Wishes
the assemblage editorial team
Please forward this message to anyone who might be interested.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS - assemblage no.2
RESEARCH PAPERS
Maggie Ronayne (Southampton) highlights the issues surrounding
identity politics in archaeological discourse, Jan Turek (Sheffield)
discusses his excavations and interpretation of an intriguing communal
burial from Slany in Bohemia and Adrian Chadwick (Sheffield) writes a
social archaeology of later prehistoric and Romano-British field
systems.
FEATURES
We present you with two experimental features that
utilise the flexibility of publishing on the web. Wade Tarzia
writes a highly personal account of his visit to Ballinagh, Co.Cavan,
Eire and his encounter with its folklore and its archaeology and
Graeme Warren offers a non-linear narrative of a Mesolithic seascape.
FORUM
Paul Graves-Brown voices his concerns on the Polluter Pays Principle
and its affect on archaeological practice and Michael Tierney writes
an open letter to the editor on the Radical Archaeology Forum
WORDS OF WISDOM
Another series of five books are chosen by archaeological authors and
academics. This time around, Roberta Gilchrist, Charles Orser and
Randy McGuire give us their selection. Mike Parker Pearson
contemplates his years at Cambridge with Ian Hodder's class of '79,
the birth of post-processualism, life, love and the universe in
Recantations, Reflections, Revisions... And we get an insight into the
minds of two more archaeologists - often dark and horrible places -
and find seaweed, Homer Simpson and sixth-form parties! Phil Freeman
and Jane Downes were the objects of our torture this time!
NOTES FROM THE FIELD
David Thomas gives us a peek into the world of computing and
archaeology in Jordan, Duncan Robertson describes the latest method in
examining urns without excavation, Mel Giles appeals for sponsorship
on behalf of two archaeology graduates from York who are retracing a
medieval pilgrimage route to Spain to raise money for Shelter and Matt
Lemke writes on Trowelmania! Dig it or be damned!
REVIEWS
Our wonderful team of reviewers give you the low down on some of the
latest books to hit your library shelves, two conferences, a few TV
shows and some (vaguely) archaeological computer games (well, it's not
ALL work, work, work you know!).We also have an exclusive report by
Vicky Cooper who has just come back from being on location with the
BBC filming their latest archaeology programme 'Meet the Ancestors'.
THE FUN PAGES
Well, so good last time, they wouldn't go away. The Fun Pages are back
with an archaeological pub guide (sort of!), crossword, recipes of
food and drink from the larder of time past and MORE anagrams, not to
mention Lecture Cricket and Conference Bingo!
assemblage-info
the new, improved assemblage-info...for funding, for conferences, for
life! With details on over 50 conferences around the world, 126
funding sources and links to almost 150 online archaeological
bibliographies, this regularly updated section will always keep you
informed.
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