Theory and Method in the Prehistoric Archaeology of Central Europe

23/05/2014

and now something completely different!

An Archaeological version of Simon & Garfunkel's Sound of Silence: The Sound of Theory - Shanks & Garfinkle Hello Hodder my old friend I've come to talk with...

20/05/2014

The whole proceedings of the conference for download here:

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05/05/2014

Are you more into Balkan archaeology? One of the papers from the conference proceedings is interestingly discussing different political and social views of current archaeology at the Illyrians.

Kuzmanovic, Z., Vranic, I. 2013. On the reflexive nature of archaeologies of the Western Balkan Iron Age: a case study of the "Illyrian argument". Anthropologie (Brno) 51, 2: 249-259.

28/04/2014

Are you interested in the theory behind scientific approaches to ceramics? Check this paper of Jan Petřík and Ivana Vostrovská (presented in 2012 in Mikulov)

"Ceramic evidence from archaeological sites offers many opportunities to explore the technological and social behaviour of prehistoric communities. Results related to inter and intra site ceramic variability in technology, provenance, decoration

16/04/2014

Dear all, we've been a bit quiet (working hard of course!), but now our proceedings from the conference is out! You can check the content and read the editorial here:

"This paper introduces a Special Issue of the journal Anthropologie based on the papers that were presented at the conference Theory and Method in the Prehistoric Archaeology of Central Europe, which was held in 2012 in Mikulov, Czech Republic.

04/03/2013

Dear all,
from autumn 2012 we already know about failure of Bosnian government to finance their cultural and research institutions. Nowadays there is strong initiative in the country which needs help from other museum and galleries worldwide - your solidarity is needed!

Bosnia-Herzegovina's Cultural Institutions in Crisis

01/11/2012

You can find the same photos on flickr here: http://bit.ly/Tw6KD1

29/10/2012

the conference is over...we hope that you enjoyed it as we did :) ...please send us some feedback or comments through facebook or you can also use our email theory_and_method(at)yahoo.com

26/10/2012

Evžen Neustupný discussing Marxism in czechoslovak archaeology with Martin Bača and Karl Marx on the background.

25/10/2012

key-note speakers Johannes Müller and Kristian Kristiansen (right) discussing during the coffee break

25/10/2012

conference finally started yesterday

23/10/2012