Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern Studies

Archaeology Reading Group: Object-Image-Interpretation

Convenor Will Anderson, Centre for Classics and Archaeology, w.anderson@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au.

The group meets at 4:00 pm, generally on the third Thursday of the month during semester.

Venue unless advised otherwise is the staff lounge in the southwest corner of the first floor, Centre for Classics and Archaeology, Old Quad. Discussion usually centres on a selected reading on archaeology theory.

To be added to the email list to receive details of meetings, please email the convenor.

Programme for Semester 2 2008

28 August

Reading:

Mike Parker Pearson, Josh Pollard, Colin Richards, Julian Thomas, Christopher Tilley, Kate Welham and Umberto Albarella, 2006, 'Materializing Stonehenge: The Stonehenge Riverside Project and New Discoveries', Journal of Material Culture 11, 227-61.

Programme for Semester 1 2008

20 March - Venue: Classics Library

Relating to the 12th International Aegean Conference - DAIS: The Aegean Feast, there will be a preconference presentation and feedback session on draft papers.

A suggested reading is the following article on the theme of feasting by the conference keynote speaker, Dr. Yannis Hamilakis:

Hamilakis, Y. (1999) 'Food technologies/technologies of the body: The social context of wine and oil production and consumption in Bronze Age Crete', World Archaeology 31.1: 38–54.

This article can be downloaded from the Baillieu Library web site using Supersearch.

3 April

An additional meeting for a post-DAIS conference discussion.

24 April

The readings are as follows:

Adam Brum and Mark W. Moore, 'Symbolic Revolutions and the Australian Archaeological Record', Cambridge Archaeological Journal 15/2 (2005), 157-175.

[Various authors], 'Can Archaeology Recover Past Intentions?', Cambridge Archaeological Journal 14/1 (2004), 64-80.

T. Kivisild et al., 'Revealing the Prehistoric Settlement of Australia by Y Chromosome and mtDNA Analysis', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104/21 (2007), 8726-8730.

15 May

Archaeology and Texts

The readings are as follows: 

J. Moreland, 2006: 'Archaeology and texts: subservience or enlightenment', Annual Review of Anthropology 35, 135-51.

B. Davis, 2008: 'So you find a deposit filled with artefacts. Where do you start to read? A discussion of material culture as text', Archaeological Review from Cambridge 23.1, 97-108.

R. Laurence, 2004: 'The uneasy dialogue between ancient history and archaeology' in E.W. Sauer (ed.), Archaeology and Ancient History: Breaking Down the Boundaries, London, 99-113.

Previous Papers

The programme and abstracts for 2007 are available here.

The programme and abstracts for 2006 are available here.

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