Joukowsky Institute Perspectives
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Köp båda 2 för 550 krArchaeology for the People is a useful and important volume that contains thought-provoking stories about a controversial past that is often deliberately ignored, including by many archaeologists secluded in the ivory tower of academia. Books like this one prevent the past from becoming an Ignoreland, to cite the title of a critical and mordant track included in REM's album Automatic for the People. * European Journal of Archaeology *
John Cherry looked after medieval metalwork at the British Museum from 1964 to 2002. In 2016 he published Richard Rawlinson and his Seal Matrices: Collecting in the Early Eighteenth Century, and 'Patronage and purpose: goldsmiths and the engraving of silver seal matrices in late Medieval England' in Orfeverie gothique en Europe: production et reception, ed. E.A. Koenig and M. Tomasi. Felipe Rojas (Assistant Professor of Archaeology, Brown University) has conducted archaeological fieldwork in the Eastern Mediterranean at various sites including Aphrodisias, Sardis, and Petra. He is currently finishing a monograph about Greek, Roman and Byzantine interaction with the Bronze and Iron Age material culture of Anatolia.
Contents 1. Introduction: Archaeology for the People (John Cherry& Felipe Rojas) 2. The Sanctuary: The World's Oldest Temple and the Dawn of Civilization (Elif Batuman) [Reprinted from The New Yorker, December 19, 2011; permission to reproduce pending] 3. The Urban Gardens of Istanbul: An Archaeology of Sustenance (Marta Ostivich, Aleksandar Sopov, and Chantel White) [Prize-winning essay in the Archaeology for the People competition] 4. Origins: The Elusive Search for the First Native Americans (Chip Colwell) 5. Remembering Slack Farm (A. Gwynn Henderson) 6. Loot and the Biography of Pots (Vernon Silver) 7. The Decline and Fall of the Classic Maya City (Keith Eppich) 8. Digging Deep: A Hauntilogy of Cape Town (Nick Shepherd) 9. Photo Essay: Eating in Uronarti (Laurel Bestock) 10. Responses to a Questionnaire (Brian Fagan, Colin Renfrew, Alfredo Gonzalez Ruibal, Marilyn Johnson, Cornelius Holtorf, Leonardo Lopez Lujan, Yannis Hamilakis, Kara Cooney, Lynn Meskell) 11. MOOCs: Teaching Archaeology to 45,000 Students (Susan Alcock, Andrew Dufton, Muge Durusu-Tanrioever)