Comments on: Wikifying Historical Archaeology http://www.sha.org/blog/index.php/2012/06/wikifying-historical-archaeology/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=wikifying-historical-archaeology Society for Historical Archaeology Fri, 13 Sep 2013 15:12:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: What We’re Reading: June 14, 2012 - American Historical Association http://www.sha.org/blog/index.php/2012/06/wikifying-historical-archaeology/#comment-360 What We’re Reading: June 14, 2012 - American Historical Association Mon, 29 Jul 2013 19:43:52 +0000 http://www.sha.org/blog/?p=1660#comment-360 [...] Wikifying Historical Archaeology Paul Mullins, the president of the Society for Historical Archaeology, references William Cronon’s article in Perspectives on History in his own call “to take Wikipedia seriously and recognize all the potential it has for historical archaeology and the SHA.” [...] [...] Wikifying Historical Archaeology Paul Mullins, the president of the Society for Historical Archaeology, references William Cronon’s article in Perspectives on History in his own call “to take Wikipedia seriously and recognize all the potential it has for historical archaeology and the SHA.” [...]

]]> By: Ed Bell http://www.sha.org/blog/index.php/2012/06/wikifying-historical-archaeology/#comment-267 Ed Bell Thu, 06 Dec 2012 20:22:00 +0000 http://www.sha.org/blog/?p=1660#comment-267 Thanks Paul. The Wikipedia entry for Historical Archaeology *was* lackluster. Why hasn't anyone taken a go at it before now? I changed the misperception that the field deals only with sites and topics that are already fully known and apparently sworn to under penalty of perjury ("attested") in written records, added oral traditions, and fixed a mistaken word use:  the antonym for a literate society is not an "illiterate society," but rather a "non-literate society." But then again sometimes it is. --Edward L. Bell, Boston, Mass. Thanks Paul. The Wikipedia entry for Historical Archaeology *was* lackluster. Why hasn’t anyone taken a go at it before now? I changed the misperception that the field deals only with sites and topics that are already fully known and apparently sworn to under penalty of perjury (“attested”) in written records, added oral traditions, and fixed a mistaken word use:  the antonym for a literate society is not an “illiterate society,” but rather a “non-literate society.” But then again sometimes it is. –Edward L. Bell, Boston, Mass.

]]> By: Paul Courtney http://www.sha.org/blog/index.php/2012/06/wikifying-historical-archaeology/#comment-261 Paul Courtney Fri, 30 Nov 2012 10:32:00 +0000 http://www.sha.org/blog/?p=1660#comment-261 Very interesting work In Czech Republiic and the Czechs publish a biannual monograph based on ongoing Prague conferences in English, Studies in Post-Medieval Archaeology which I have reviewed for Historical Archaeology but is hardly known in UK and USA. I recommend visiting the conference where they have simultaneous translation into English- whn I was there 3 years ago there were 3 English and one German using the services of 2 translators- wonderful.  Prague is also a very low cost tourist venue and has some wonderful architecture. paul courtney, Leicester UK Very interesting work In Czech Republiic and the Czechs publish a biannual monograph based on ongoing Prague conferences in English, Studies in Post-Medieval Archaeology which I have reviewed for Historical Archaeology but is hardly known in UK and USA. I recommend visiting the conference where they have simultaneous translation into English- whn I was there 3 years ago there were 3 English and one German using the services of 2 translators- wonderful.  Prague is also a very low cost tourist venue and has some wonderful architecture.

paul courtney, Leicester UK

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