1st November 2015
In the Library
I was sat last week on a modern sofa, with an organic hot chocolate in a paper cup, in my local university library looking at the abstracts in Antiquity and The Cambridge Archaeological Journal. Should you have access, these caught my eye, but not enough at the time to read them fully. I think i really should. But call it a lazy research moment.
Antiquity vol 89:347 Oct.2015- visuals in archaeology. As it points out, “Archaeology is a very visual subject”, and i have always said it attracts more Dyslexics because of it. But not every archaeological report or book does itself justice re quality of illustrations, says the author. (I am also interested in how illustrations reflect and create gender identities and roles, especially in prehistory.) There is also an article on Stonehenge diet to get to.
Next, Cambridge Archaeological Journal, Vol 25, No 4 Nov 2015. A journal i once briefly helped edit in a very small way, when i was at Cambridge, and so there is an issue with my name in it.
There was plenty in here, including some reviews of Hodder and Shank’s fairly but not so recent books, but also articles on evolution, i.e. that the human became distinct through its teaching abilities as much as its learning ones, naming us Homo Docens. Another article that looked juicy was one on Neolithic “objects, stamps and figurines” as did an article explaining that modern humans, and perhaps Neanderthals were the first to travel by water in the Palaeolithic. Would it explain some speed of movement east, in some cases? I’ll have to read it fully to see if the author considers this.
Again, i did not read enough to explain everything further, but it whets the appetite. So maybe i will get back to you. Or you can find the journals online. http://www.journals.cambridge.org/jid_CAJ and www.antiquity.ac.uk/ .
Cullen Archaeology 