http://www.sha.org/blog/index.php/2012/12/defining-a-global-historical-archaeology/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=defining-a-global-historical-archaeology Society for Historical Archaeology Fri, 13 Sep 2013 15:12:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 http://www.sha.org/blog/index.php/2012/12/defining-a-global-historical-archaeology/#comment-281 Diversity and Difference in SHA | SHA Blog Tue, 29 Jan 2013 20:13:41 +0000 http://www.sha.org/blog/?p=2570#comment-281 [...] [...] [...] [...]

]]> http://www.sha.org/blog/index.php/2012/12/defining-a-global-historical-archaeology/#comment-280 Paul Courtney Sat, 19 Jan 2013 17:49:00 +0000 http://www.sha.org/blog/?p=2570#comment-280 Liked this piece by Paul Mullins. The thing I have always liked about our subject whatever we call it is its lack of definition in practice and scope for interdisciplinary crossover. And for us Europeans who straddle both periods  -rather than mythologising the Middle Ages as filled with"feudal" ciphers with no free will-  not really clear where medieval end.  paul courtneyFrom a very snowy Leicester and we had an earthquake a few days back!! Liked this piece by Paul Mullins. The thing I have always liked about our subject whatever we call it is its lack of definition in practice and scope for interdisciplinary crossover. And for us Europeans who straddle both periods  -rather than mythologising the Middle Ages as filled with”feudal” ciphers with no free will-  not really clear where medieval end.Â
paul courtneyFrom a very snowy Leicester and we had an earthquake a few days back!!

]]> http://www.sha.org/blog/index.php/2012/12/defining-a-global-historical-archaeology/#comment-266 Ed Bell Thu, 06 Dec 2012 20:12:00 +0000 http://www.sha.org/blog/?p=2570#comment-266 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.

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