Foreign Countries: conversations in archaeology with Dr. Ash Lenton.

16/04/2022

The latest issue of Antiquity is out today! For your convenience, we've gathered all the 🆓 and research papers, project galleries, and book reviews in one handy place 👇
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25/03/2022

This is a map of the ~7,000-year-old town of Vráble in 🇸🇰 (houses are white squares).

It has 3 neighbourhoods, one of which had defences separating it from the others - perhaps a sign of an ancient dispute between neighbours.
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05/03/2022

Armstreet in a Medieval re-enactment shop in Kharkiv, Ukraine.
It is currently making metal shields to protect the people and homes of Kharkiv from Russian bullets and missiles.
You can help by buying a gift certificate from their online shop.

They also have a blog describing the current events in the war zone of Kharkiv.

Ukraine is holding the line, so does Armstreet. Thank you for all your support, don’t cancel your orders if you can, and give us time to reorganise. Read more in our blog.

10/12/2021

Voting has now opened for the Current Archaeology Awards! Which people, projects and publications deserve recognition?

15/10/2021

"Die Ausgrabungen auf der Burg Wölpe":
"The Excavations at Burg Wölpe" by Jens Berthold, Erich Block, Elise Jakeman, Ash Lenton, Kristina Novak-Klimscha, Philip Piper, Emma Spencer, Patrick Tarner, Frank Wedekind, and Eboni Westbury.
Available from all good book sellers now.

11/10/2021

Foreign Countries: conversations in archaeology - new episode!
Archaeology of Later Prehistoric Europe: Cultural Transformations in Neolithic Central Europe.
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Nils Müller-Scheeßel, Zuzana Hukeľová, John Meadows, Ivan Cheben, Johannes Müller & Martin Furholt. 2021. “New burial rites at the end of the Linearbandkeramik in south-west Slovakia” in Antiquity Vol. 95 (379): 65–84.

The recent discovery of several late Linearbandkeramik (LBK) sites in Central Europe, including Vráble in south-west Slovakia, has revealed evidence for increasing diversity in Neolithic mortuary practices, which may reflect inter-community war and sociopolitical crisis at the end of the LBK. Here, the authors combine osteological and radiocarbon analyses of inhumations from Vráble. Rather than a straightforward sign of inter-community conflict and war, this development reflects a culmination of internal conflict and a diversification in the ritual treatment of human bodies. The emerging variability in LBK methods of manipulating and depositing dead bodies can be interpreted as an experimental
approach in how to negotiate social conflicts and community boundaries.

Ana Grabundžija, Helmut Schlichtherle, Urs Leuzinger, Wolfram Schier & Sabine Karg. 2021. “The interaction of distant technologies: bridging Central Europe using a techno-typological comparison of spindle whorls” in Antiquity Vol. 95 (381): 627–647.

The study of prehistoric textile production requires the excavation of sites with exceptional organic preservation. Here, the authors focus on thread production using evidence from two fourth-millennium BC pre-Alpine wetland sites: Arbon-Bleiche 3 in Switzerland and Bad Buchau-Torwiesen II in southern
Germany. A comparison of the spindle whorls from these two settlements with a contemporaneous East-Central European dataset suggests that multiple culture-historical groups with distinct technological signatures inhabited Neolithic Central Europe. Furthermore, the spatial distribution of conical spindle
whorls within the pre-Alpine settlements suggests the immigration of both people and technology from the east, thereby illuminating the wider themes of mobility and innovation in prehistoric Europe.

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06/09/2021

Foreign Countries: conversations in archaeology - new season!
The Archaeology of Later Prehistoric Europe.
Episode 5.1 State Societies in Bronze Age Spain & Crete.
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Dr.. Roberto Risch, Departament de Prehistòria, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
Emblems and spaces of power during the Argaric Bronze Age at La Almoloya, Murcia”.

Prof. Jan Driessen, UC Louvain.
"Revisiting the Minoan palaces: ritual commensality at Sissi".

Vicente Lull, Cristina Rihuete-Herrada , Roberto Risch, Bárbara Bonora, Eva Celdrán-Beltrán, Maria Inés Fregeiro, Claudia Molero, Adrià Moreno, Camila Oliart, Carlos Velasco-Felipe , Lourdes Andúgar, Wolfgang Haak , Vanessa Villalba-Mouco & Rafael Micó. 2021. “Emblems and spaces of power during the Argaric Bronze Age at La Almoloya, Murcia”. Antiquity 2021 Vol. 95 (380): 329–348.

The recent discovery of an exceptionally rich grave at La Almoloya in south-eastern Spain illuminates the
political context of Early Bronze Age El Argar society. The quantity, variety and opulence of the grave goods
emphasise the technological, economic and social dimensions of this unique culture. The assemblage
includes politically and ideologically emblematic objects, among which a silver diadem stands out.
Of equally exceptional character is the building under which the grave was found—possibly one of
the first Bronze Age palaces identified in Western Europe. The architecture and artefacts from La Almoloya
provide new insight into emblematic individuals and the exercise of power in societies of marked
economic asymmetry.

Jan Driessen. 2021. "Revisiting the Minoan palaces: ritual commensality at Sissi". Antiquity 2021 Vol. 95 (381): 686–704.

Scholars have long hypothesised that the central courts of the elaborate Minoan complexes of Crete (c. 1950–1450 BC) were used for ritualised, communal gatherings. New archaeological evidence from the court centre at the site of Sissi offers unique insights into the social practices, regional history and political organisation of this Bronze Age island civilisation. The remains of consumption rituals practised at Sissi’s central court, along with the absence of evidence for other specific functions, provide the basis for a more nuanced understanding of the role of different types of Minoan palace. Furthermore, deliberate incorporation of earlier ruins within the Sissi complex suggests that the social power of Minoan palaces drew, in part, on ancestral practices.

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31/08/2021

Coming soon to a podcast near you!
Dr. Roberto Risch and the bronze age state of El Argar.

A silver diadem and other lavish objects interred with a woman in a grand hall at a Bronze Age palace site in southeast Spain have led researchers to believe that women may have played an important role in the society of the El Argar culture.

archaeology.org/issues/439-2109/digs/9910-digs-spain-la-almoloya

(Clockwise from top: Courtesy of Grup ASOME-UAB (2), J.A. Soldevilla)

29/08/2021

A silver diadem and other lavish objects interred with a woman in a grand hall at a Bronze Age palace site in southeast Spain have led researchers to believe that women may have played an important role in the society of the El Argar culture.

archaeology.org/issues/439-2109/digs/9910-digs-spain-la-almoloya

(Clockwise from top: Courtesy of Grup ASOME-UAB (2), J.A. Soldevilla)

26/08/2021

Dear Professor Green, I am writing to you on behalf of the Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology (SPMA) – Europe’s leading professional society for the archaeology of the modern world – to express our concerns over the recently announced decision to close the University of Worcester’s archae...

26/08/2021

Free ANU CCE Online Taster Talk:
Medieval Bodies: Age and Sexuality in Medieval Europe
Dr. Ash Lenton, School of Archaeology
Wed 01 Sep 2021 7pm Eastern Australian Time

Medieval people had some very strange ideas about how the body worked. Physicians trained in humoral theory relied on the inspection of blood, urine, and other fluids produced by the body. Clothing was used to control social order. Sumptuary laws were passed to regulate and reinforce social hierarchies and social morals . Depending upon a person's age and social rank, people were permitted to wear certain clothing and colours, eat particular food and own luxuries. Medieval people wore their identities on their person, and in fact, medieval bodies were overtly sexualised with clothing and grooming to enhance sexual attractiveness.

This taster talk looks at the archaeology of bodily functions and clothing and how it contributed to the ideas of youth, maturity, sexuality and romance.

https://cce.anu.edu.au/all-subjects/cce-taster-medieval-bodies-age-and-sexuality-in-medieval-europe.aspx

24/08/2021

Save Worcester's Archaeology department

29/07/2021

3.8 Bonus Episode now online!
Archaeology of Early Medieval Europe: A Powerful Place of Pictland!

Prof. Gordon Noble, University of Aberdeen.


GORDON NOBLE, MEGGEN GONDEK, EWAN CAMPBELL, NICHOLAS EVANS, DEREK HAMILTON & SIMON TAYLOR (2019) 'A Powerful Place of Pictland: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on a Power Centre of the 4th to 6th Centuries AD', Medieval Archaeology, 63:1, 56-94, DOI: 10.1080/00766097.2019.1588529

OUR UNDERSTANDING of the nature of late and post-Roman central places of northern Britain has been hindered by the lack of historical sources and the limited scale of archaeological investigation. New work at Rhynie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland (NJ 49749 26345), has begun to redress this through extensive excavation and landscape survey. This has revealed a Pictish central place of the 4th to 6th centuries AD that has European connections through material culture, iconography and site character. In addition to reviewing the place-name and historical context, this article outlines preliminary reflections on five seasons of excavation and survey in the Rhynie landscape. The article also provides a detailed consideration of chronology, including radiocarbon dating and Bayesian statistical analysis. The results reveal the multi-faceted nature of a major, non-hillfort elite complex of Pictland that comprised a highstatus residence with cult dimensions, a major centre for production and exchange, and a contemporary cemetery. A series of sculptured stones stood in association with the settlement and cemetery and the iconography of the stones, along with the wider archaeological evidence, provides a rich dataset for a renewed consideration of the central places of early medieval northern Britain with broader implications for the nature of power and rulership in late and post-Roman Europe.

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29/07/2021

Vikings & Saxons: Sailing to Valhalla
Monday 9th Aug 6pm (AEST) (8am GMT)
Dr. Ash Lenton, Australian National University

This free online taster talk explores the Saxon & Viking Age people, who travelled the European world raiding and trading silver and gold.

From the early days of Vendel adventurers to the lavish Saxon ship burials at Sutton Hoo, and the Viking dragon boat crews, Nordic and Germanic sailors lived, fought, died, and were buried in their ships.

This talk takes a look at the extraordinary riches and the elaborate funerals of those pirates who became kings.

https://cce.anu.edu.au/all-subjects/vikings-saxons-sailing-to-valhalla.aspx

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18/07/2021

The Council for British Archaeology (CBA) is pleased to announce the appointment of public archeologist and broadcaster, Raksha Dave, as the new President of the organization with effect from 17th July 2021.

Raksha will begin her three-year Presidency by officially opening the Festival of Archeology (17th July – 1st August), the UKs biggest annual celebration of archeology, featuring two-weeks of activity and events encouraging young people to ‘Explore Local Places’ and find out about their local area and the people and communities lived there.

Field Archaeologist, Public Archaeologist and Broadcaster, Raksha, graduated from the UCL Institute of Archaeology in 1999 and has worked on some of the capital’s most iconic multi-period archaeological sites.

Raksha's experience spans from prehistoric times to the Second World War. Raksha begun her broadcasting career with Channel 4's Time Team in 2003; during her ten-year stint on the show she excavated well over 100 sites including Westminster Abbey, Holyrood Palace, the D-Day defences and Normandy.

Raksha has since worked on a plethora of documentaries and primetime TV programmes, for example Digging for Britain (BBC4) Countdown to War (Channel 5), Tutankhamun with Dan Snow (Channel 5), The Great Plague (Channel 5), The Bone Detectives (Channel 4), Digging up Britain's Past (Channel 5) and Pompeii's Final Hours: New Evidence (Channel 5).

Raksha's passion for community and the public is reflected in her heritage work when she developed and managed various National Lottery Heritage funded community projects, sat on the board of trustees for the Council for British Archaeology (London) and became an advocate and patron for the CBA’s Young Archaeologists’ Club.

In her new role as President for the Council for British Archaeology, Raksha will be keen to encourage people of all ages and backgrounds to get involved in archaeology.

16/07/2021

Latest episode now online!
4.5 Latest Research on the Peopling of North America: Parsons Island and the Chesapeake Bay.

Lowery, D.L. 2021. Parsons Island, Maryland: Synthesis of Geoarchaeological Investigations, 2013-2020. Chesapeake Watershed Archaeological Research Foundation, the Maryland Historical Trust, the Smithsonian Institution.

On May 20th, 2013, Dr. John Wah and myself visited Parsons Island, Maryland (see Figures 1.1 and 1.2). The expedition on that day represented my second excursion to Parsons in twenty-one years. My first visit to Parsons occurred in 1992 as part of a collective multi-year archaeological survey of the Kent Island area (see Lowery 1993), which was conducted for the Kent Island Heritage Society, the University of Delaware, and the Maryland Historical Trust.

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05/07/2021

Panel hosted by the Black Trowel Collective represented by Dr Uzma Rizvi. The panel features Professor Veena Dubal, J.D., Ph.D. as the Moderator and Sam Easy...

04/07/2021

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Experts warn history and heritage could be lost if they are excluded from the government's new plans.

24/06/2021

Foreign Countries.
New episode now online!
4.4 Latest Research on the Peopling of North America: Human Presence, Expansion, and Settlement in Florida over Four Millennia

Dr. Michael Faught, Vice President, Treasurer, Archaeological Research Cooperative
Courtesy Appointments, University of Arizona and University of Florida
Senior Advisor SEARCH Inc.

Michael K. Faught & Charlotte Donald Pevny 2019. 'Pre-Clovis to the Early Archaic: Human Presence, Expansion, and Settlement in Florida over Four Millennia', PALEOAMERICA 5(1) 73-87.

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In this article, we review evidence for the initial presence, later expansion, and subsequent settling in of first Floridians during times when climate change and sea level rise decreased the amount of habitable land. We present projectile-point and formal-tool sequences and estimated chronologies that describe Florida’s: (1) pre-Clovis presence (exploration); (2) Clovis presence focused on river channels, springs, chert resources, and possibly megafauna (colonization); (3) continuation and proliferation of Clovis-related, but post-megafauna late Paleoindian lanceolate point makers that
remained focused on river channels, springs, and chert (expansion); (4) transition to side- and corner-notched points and a plethora of formal tools, along with significant population increase and landscape use occurring away from waterways (settlement); and (5) possible population decline or abandonment, or both, by 10,000 calendar years ago or soon thereafter.

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23/06/2021

The future of our past is at risk. The UK is world-beating in archaeology - challenge the threats it faces.

21/06/2021

https://twitter.com/ForArchaeology/status/1406910696093372417?s=20

“Things are about to kick off here in Sheffield, and it looks like we’re going to make some NOISE! (Organisers have also done a brilliant job of making the event COVID safe)”

21/06/2021

Romans & Barbarians: how to survive in the Roman Empire!.
Hybrid Course: Face-to-face on campus and online via Zoom (your choice!).
Explore the archaeology and social lives of the people living in the Western Roman Empire.
The Roman world included people from Africa, Britain, Germany, Greece, and Iran. They moved around Western Europe, trading, fighting, marrying, and dying in the Roman provinces. The Roman period was the flowering of multicultural Europe.
https://cce.anu.edu.au/all-subjects/romans-and-barbarians-how-to-survive-in-the-roman-empire.aspx

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14/06/2021

Latest Episode now online!
4.3 Latest Research on the Peopling of North America: The Timing & Effect of the Earliest Human Arrivals
with Dr. Lorena Becerra-Valdivia, School of Archaeology, Oxford University.

Lorena Becerra-Valdivia & Thomas Higham 2020. ‘The timing and effect of the earliest human arrivals in North America’, Nature 584.

The peopling of the Americas marks a major expansion of humans across the planet. However, questions regarding the timing and mechanisms of this dispersal remain, and the previously accepted model (termed ‘Clovis-first’)—suggesting that the first inhabitants of the Americas were linked with the Clovis tradition, a complex marked by distinctive fluted lithic points1—has been effectively refuted. Here we analyse chronometric data from 42 North American and Beringian archaeological sites using a Bayesian age modelling approach, and use the resulting chronological framework to elucidate spatiotemporal patterns of human dispersal. We then integrate these patterns with the available genetic and climatic evidence. The data obtained show that humans were probably present before, during and immediately after the Last Glacial Maximum (about 26.5–19 thousand years ago)2,3 but that more widespread occupation began during a period of abrupt warming, Greenland Interstadial 1 (about 14.7–12.9 thousand years before ad 2000)4. We also identify the near-synchronous commencement of Beringian, Clovis and Western Stemmed cultural traditions, and an overlap of each with the last dates for the appearance of 18 now-extinct faunal genera. Our analysis suggests that the widespread expansion of humans through North America was a key factor in the extinction of large terrestrial mammals.
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09/06/2021

Black Trowel Collective

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Jun 7
Unionizing North American Archaeology
June 24th, 1pm PDT

Join the Black Trowel Collective for a panel conversation featuring union organizers and representatives, CRM archaeologists, and labor law and rights specialists from the US and Canada.

https://twitter.com/BlackTrowel/status/1401561641133608966?s=20&fbclid=IwAR3oLTte3TD1L7lXRaIW5nOURZhWimhYrn3A8V895YsjTzRa8N30HMTRO_U

“Unionizing North American Archaeology June 24th, 1pm PDT Join the Black Trowel Collective for a panel conversation featuring union organizers and representatives, CRM archaeologists, and labor law and rights specialists from the US and Canada.”

09/06/2021

Romans Animals: Keep Them, Kill Them, Eat Them, Wear Them
Dr. Ash Lenton

Roman life and Roman culture were completely intertwined with animals. Living in our modern world, we don’t appreciate the huge role that animals played in the past.
The very towns and houses were laid out specifically for the housing and care of the animals. Craftspeople were dependant on the wool, leather and bones. Priests and priestesses required animals for rituals and religious ceremonies.
Animal products made up a large part of the diet, and animal fats were a major source of light. People wore animal heads, animal skins and animal bones on their bodies to identify who they were in society.
This talk will look at how Roman people lived, thrived and died with their animals.
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02/06/2021

https://www.thestar.co.uk/education/sheffield-university-chiefs-ignored-secret-donors-ps200000-offer-to-keep-doomed-archaeology-department-open-3257311?fbclid=IwAR02aR2KroIduv0KQgvRBi5e_XtZsxFOHG8IJ9sRVjdFBhMxffXlMtQ8vdM

Sheffield University chiefs ignored a £200,000 offer from a secret donor to save its doomed archaeology department open, it is claimed

02/06/2021

Firth Court, the administrative centre of Sheffield University[ Peter Barr, CC BY-SA 2.0] More details have begun to emerge of the process behind the controversial decision which saw the Executive Board of Sheffield University vote to close the internationally renowned Archaeology Department, retai...

31/05/2021

Brexit and university cutbacks are fuelling a crisis in recruitment of skilled workers

23/05/2021

Thank you to everyone who took part in Australia’s National Archaeology Week over the past seven days. We appreciate your support in helping us to celebrate all things Australian archaeology.

Mark your calendars now for , which will be held from the 15th to 21st of May 2022. Next year will also be the 20th anniversary of NAW, so make sure you tune in for some extra special anniversary celebrations!

You'll find a fresh batch of Meet the Archaeologists profiles on our website and keep an eye out for the Bake It! Make It! competition winners, which will be announced shortly!

We have two bonus events today, Sunday 23rd May:
Qld, In-Person
Warriors, Weapons and Wild Women: The Amazons in Greek Art presented by Dr Roslynne Bell @ The Greek Club
Sunday, May 23, 2021, 1:30 PM to 2:30 PM (AEST)
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NSW, In-Person
Newcastle Archaeology presented by Tim Adams @ St John's Church Hall
Sunday, May 23, 2021, 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM (AEST)
https://buff.ly/3eP5AD3

22/05/2021

Stonehenge research at risk if Sheffield archaeology unit closes
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/may/21/stonehenge-research-in-jeopardy-if-sheffield-university-archaeology-unit-closes

University of Sheffield’s archaeology team argue vital work will be lost if threatened closure goes ahead

17/05/2021

New Episode now online!
4.2 Latest Research on the Peopling of North America: Clovis Points & Social Life in the Glaciated North East
with
Emeritus Prof. Chris Ellis, Dept. of Anthropology, University of Western Ontario.
Dr. Jonathan Lothrop, Curator of Archaeology, New York State Museum.

Christopher J. Ellis and Jonathan C. Lothrop. 2019. "Early Fluted-biface Variation in Glaciated Northeastern North America", PaleoAmerica 5(2): 121-131.

Most researchers argue that archaeological evidence for the Clovis technological complex, although documented across most of unglaciated North America, is absent in the glaciated Northeast, suggesting that early Paleoindian populations in the latter region were descendent from early Native American peoples associated with Clovis technology. If so, what are the earliest flutedbiface forms in glaciated northeastern North America? To refine developmental and relative chronological relationships of early Paleoindian fluted bifaces in the region, we examine fluted-biface-reduction sequences at the Rogers (Ontario) and West Athens Hill (WAH) (New York) sites, and (2) compare fluted-point samples from early Paleoindian sites in the Northeast and vicinity. For Rogers and WAH, our results document variable frequencies of overshot and overface flaking during fluted-point manufacture – features linked elsewhere to Clovis biface reduction. In addition, analyses identify several early Paleoindian fluted-point samples in the Northeast that bear similarities to Clovis points but differ from, and therefore likely predate Gainey and Gainey-related early Paleoindian point forms in the glaciated Northeast.

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10/05/2021

National Archaeology Week in Australia
AAA Webinar Series

This year for the first time, the Australian Archaeological Association is hosting a special National Archaeology Week webinar series. Five spectacular talks, from five spectacular archaeologists, all online. Remember to check the time zone!

Monday, May 17, 20216:00 PM
Friday, May 21, 20211:00 PM
https://archaeologyweek.org/events-list/aaa-webinar-series

This year for the first time, the Australian Archaeological Association is hosting a special National Archaeology Week webinar series. Five spectacular online talks, from five spectacular archaeologists: Dave Johnston, Matt Carter, Silvano Jung, Eleanor Casella, and Geraldine Mate. All online!

04/05/2021

Brand New Season 4!
Latest Research on the Peopling of North America
Episode 4.1: Fluted Points in the Ice-Free Corridor, Canada with Prof. Jack Ives and Dr. Gabriel Yanicki

John W. Ives, Gabriel Yanicki, Kisha Supernant & Courtney Lakevold (2019) Confluences: Fluted Points in the Ice-Free Corridor, PaleoAmerica, 5:2, 143-156, DOI: 10.1080/20555563.2019.1600136

We undertake an expanded analysis of the Western Canadian Fluted Points database. Given clear
evidence of biotic habitability along the entire Corridor by 13,000 years ago, fluted point spatial
clusters likely reflect both Clovis contemporaneous and later fluted point instances. Points were
overwhelmingly fashioned on local toolstones, featuring a bimodal length distribution (larger,
relatively unaltered fluted points versus reworked, smaller fluted points at the end of their use
life), mainly found in dispersed landscape settings rather than major kills or campsites. The
temporal cline from older Clovis forms south of the ice masses to younger fluted points in
Alaska suggests fluted point makers traversing the Corridor eventually met populations bearing
eastern Beringian traditions. Corridor fluted point morphologies may indicate the degree to
which diffusion or demic expansion mediated north-south interactions: deeper bases, parallel
sides and multiple basal thinning flakes reflect intermediate forms similar to Younger Dryas-aged
Alaskan fluted points.

John W. (Jack) Ives. 2015. 'Kinship, Demography, and Paleoindian Modes of Colonization:
Some Western Canadian Perspectives' in Michael David Frachetti & Robert N. Spengler III (eds.) Mobility and Ancient Society in Asia and the Americas: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on “Great Migrations” Held at Columbia University in December 1-2, 2011. Springer International Publishing Switzerland.

Unlike many avenues of social science enquiry, the study of variability in human kinship has been
almost uniquely the domain of anthropologists. Kinship provided core subject matter for more than a
century of anthropological thought (Trautmann 2001 ), and until quite recently, important theoretical
trends in anthropology were founded with signifi cant reference to kinship studies. Despite its centrality
as anthropological subject matter, detecting organizing features connected with kinship in archaeological
records or using kin structures in understanding the past have been subsidiary activities in
anthropological archaeology.

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02/05/2021

The National Archaeology Week Event Support Grant is funded by the Australian Archaeological Association to provide financial support for events that increase public awareness of, and engagement with, Australian archaeology and the work of Australian archaeologists during National Archaeology Week.....

02/05/2021

‘What We Found Under The Floor’ – Archaeology at Fremantle Prison.
Learn about recent archaeological discoveries from the Main Cell Block at Freo Prison on Saturday 15 May 2021. Registration is essential for this event, details here: https://buff.ly/32JzRMT

02/05/2021

During the second half of the nineteenth century, a vibrant antiquarian culture developed in colonial Victoria in southeast Australia to understand the antiquity of Aboriginal occupation. Join Professor Ian McNiven for a lecture exploring the diversity of approaches of Victorian antiquarians, and t