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Memoirs of a Reluctant Archaeologist by Yvonne Kjorlien Pdf
Elise Marquette likes dead people, but digging up the dead doesn't pay. Consulting Archaeology does. Her desperate need for a job has biological anthropologist Elise stuck in a mundane existence with greedy callous oil companies for clients. It's sucking the life out of her and she can't see a way out. As if that wasn't enough, Elise's family is a disaster, and she's given up on love and romance. Just when she'd resigned herself to torturous family dinners, cheap comfort food, safety forms and steel-toed boots, she meets an Irish archaeologist during a brief respite to Ireland. The blue-eyed Gavin Clearly has Elise re-evaluating what happiness is and what it's truly worth. Get ready to join Elise Marquette on a wild ride full of adventure, heart, and healthy dose of humour. Eat your heart out, Indiana Jones - Elise is the new queen of archaeology!
A foremost American archaeologist traces his more than four-decade career, describing his Harvard education, discoveries about ancient American civilizations, and travels to such regions as remote Guatemala, Russia, and Angkor Wat.
African Archaeology Without Frontiers by Chapurukha M Kusimba,Santores Tchandeu,Dirk Seidensticker,Adrianne Daggett,Marilee Wood,Laure Dussubieux,Tim Forssman,Kate Smuts,Nick Wiltshire,Akin Ogundiran,Matthew Davies,Caleb Adebayo Folorunso,Timothy Kipkeu Kipruto,Freda M’Mbogori,Henrietta L Moore,Emubosa Orijemie,Alex Schoeman,Festo W Gabriel,Elinaza Mjema,Philip de Barros,Gabriella Lucidi,Narcisse Pdf
Confronting national, linguistic and disciplinary boundaries, contributors to African Archaeology Without Frontiers argue against artificial limits and divisions created through the study of ?ages? that in reality overlap and cannot and should not be understood in isolation. Papers are drawn from the proceedings of the landmark 14th PanAfrican Archaeological Association Congress, held in Johannesburg in 2014, nearly seven decades after the conference planned for 1951 was re-located to Algiers for ideological reasons following the National Party?s rise to power in South Africa. Contributions by keynote speakers Chapurukha Kusimba and Akin Ogundiran encourage African archaeologists to practise an archaeology that collaborates across many related fields of study to enrich our understanding of the past. The nine papers cover a broad geographical sweep by incorporating material on ongoing projects throughout the continent including South Africa, Botswana, Cameroon, Togo, Tanzania, Kenya and Nigeria. Thematically, the papers included in the volume address issues of identity and interaction, and the need to balance cultural heritage management and sustainable development derived from a continent racked by social inequalities and crippling poverty. Edited by three leading archaeologists, the collection covers many aspects of African archaeology, and a range of periods from the earliest hominins to the historical period. It will appeal to specialists and interested amateurs.
This memoir is not really about research questions or main conclusions. It tells the story of a boy growing up in Plymouth, Devon, getting excited about archaeology after visits to mainland Greece and Crete, trying to get into Greek archaeology and relocating northwards into the Balkans, where he spent a career in prehistoric research. The chapters alternate between museum/university experiences and my major research projects. The experiences of working in that part of the world as the Third Balkan War was starting were dramatic and a history-style chapter is devoted to these beginnings. The Balkan prehistoric club in the west is a very small and select group so there is an intrinsic interest about how westerners did their archaeology there and how they interacted with local colleagues. There is also a sense of a ‘colonial relationship’ between westerners knowledgeable about theory and method, with well-stocked libraries and large research grants and easterners with little of the above. On a basic level, the memoir presents stories with implications for east–west relationships that will soon disappear from living memory. The ways that research projects originated and developed are strongly featured and there is a fund of anecdotes about prehistorians living and dead. The publication of this memoir records those fragments of the discipline’s history that are in danger of being lost forever. But my life story is not erased from this account, which is not an anthropological work but, rather, a participant account with a modicum of relevant personal details. The book providing the archaeological results is the publication Forging identities in the prehistory of Old Europe. Dividuals, individuals and communities 7000–3000 BC – a synthesis of academic research in Balkan prehistory. This memoir provides the insider story to the research results.
'To the Islands' is the personal memoir of archaeologist Steven Mithen's 25-year quest to uncover the world of Mesolithic hunter-gatherers in the Hebridean islands - and his defence of archaeology as a lifelong passion. It recounts the ongoing research Mithen has undertaken to reconstruct the lifestyles of Mesolithic hunter-gatherers.
