ANU Press New Release. Cover image of 'Va Moana'.
Ever heard of vā?
'Vā Moana: Space and Relationality in Pacific Thought and Identity’, brings together a range of voices, many from Pacific communities themselves, to share how vā is understood, lived and evolving across different places and contexts.
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🦌🏔️🔍#EAZAarchive: EAZ 56 (1/2), 2015
Research from West Greenland: What did caribou hunting look like in the centuries before industrialisation?
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#Archaeology #ArcticStudies #HunterGatherers #IndigenousHistory #LandscapeArchaeology #EAZ
#EAZ 60(1): New publication announcement
In the latest addition to the Open section, R. Greenberg et al lead a conversation that #archaeology has been reluctant to engage with: #heritage destruction, law and the politics of silence
doi.org/10.54799/EEJ...
#research #anthropology #criticalarchaeology
⚖️🧩❓#EAZ 60 (1): New publication announcement
Are we building prehistoric archaeology on secure foundations – or on assumptions we stopped questioning decades ago? Silviane Scharl explores in her latest book review:
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#archaeology #research #anthropology #prehistory
Vol. 14(2), 2025 is now available!
Check it out: teachinganthropology.org
🌍📚#EAZArchive: EAZ 14 (4), 1973
This paper explores how class structures in African societies changed from pre-colonial times through colonial rule to independence and reflects on it from the perspective of political leadership.
#PostcolonialStudies #Africa #History #Research
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Photo: K.-H. Otto. CC BY 4.0
📸 A snapshot from the past – Excavation of the statue temple at Musawwarat es Sufra, Sudan, 1960.
Photo: K.-H. Otto. CC BY 4.0
Photo is taken from EAZ 1 (2).
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#FieldworkPhoto #Sudan #Research #Archaeology #History #EAZ
🌍✊📚#EAZArchive: EAZ 16 (4) 1975
Using Tanganyika as a case study, this article examines the role of unions in the liberation movements. doi.org/10.54799/EQK...
#Africa #History #Research #Decolonization #Archaeology #EAZ
🏺🤝🌍#EAZArchive
Can we use historically documented cultural encounters to better interpret ancient events only evident through archaeological material?
doi.org/10.54799/BOU...
#Archaeology #Ethnoarchaeology #AncientHistory #Research #EAZ
Professor Simone Pollo during his talk ‘Cats, the City and Not-Just-Human Democracy’ at the Council of National Research (CNR), 19 November 2025. Photo: G. Calandra.
🐈📄 #EAZ 60 (1): New publication
From Bastet to Hello Kitty: In this conference report, B. Mecozzi recapitulates new insights into human–cat relationships from #archaeology, #genetics and #culturalstudies discussed at the meeting in Rome, Nov 2025
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#cats #research #anthropology
📚🗂️⏳EAZ 17 (1), 1976, is now available in our digital archive!
The issue covers the evolution of early Homo, hunting behaviours in the Lower #Palaeolithic and research on the Vedic Soma sacrifice.
www.eaz-journal.org/index.php/ea...
#archaeology #ethnography #anthropology #research #StoneAge #eaz
🗺️ #EAZArchive
This article by F. Wiedemann from EAZ 51 (1/2) explores how early archaeologists tried to map migrations, describing the methods and assumptions behind ethno-historical cartographies.
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#NearEast #Cartography #Research #History #Archaeology #EAZ
📕📢New publication!
We start the new issue with the review of B. Meier's "Die Kelten" (2024). H. Wendling addresses the problematic use of "Celts" as an ethnic category and the mixing of language, material culture, genetics, and identity.
doi.org/10.54799/ACH...
#Celts #IronAge #Archaeology #Research
Photo: B. Alberti. Design: P. Horstmann. CC BY 4.0
Photo: B. Alberti. CC BY 4.0
Photo: B. Alberti. Design: P. Horstmann. CC BY 4.0
Photo: A. T. Santos. CC BY 4.0
🔃📄 #EAZ 59 (2) has now been published!📣
This special issue, 'An Ontological Turn for Archaeology?' (G. Di Maida/ M. Porr, eds.) focuses on the recent call to revise the ontological foundations of #anthropology and #archaeology
www.eaz-journal.org/index.php/ea...
#research #heritage #Indigenous
EAZ 59 (1) cover. Photo: A. Azizi.
EAZ 59 (1) cover. Photo: A. Azizi.
Photo: A. Azizi.
Photo: O.P. Singh.
📚 #EAZ 59 (1) is now available online 📢
The issue focuses on collaborative archaeologies and ethnoarchaeological practice and includes case studies from #Canada, #India and #Morocco
www.eaz-journal.org/index.php/ea...
#archaeology #anthropology #ethnography #research #heritage #Indigenous
📚#EAZRecommends📢
Recent collection “Discourses on Modernity” (Eds. V.P.J. Arponen, A. Ribeiro, K. Ott | 2025 | SidestonePress) explores how the legacy of modernity still shapes the way #archaeology thinks and works.
#Research #Anthropology
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📜🎓🍖 #EAZ-Archive
Review of a major dissertation publication on food offerings in Hallstatt-period graves – a topic central to #IronAge funerary #archaeology.
#Hallstatt #Research
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Universität Tübingen gibt kunstvoll geschnitztes Ahnenbild an Māori-Gemeinschaft in Neuseeland zurück. Britischer Seefahrer James Cook hatte Pou der Hinematioro vor 250 Jahren nach Europa gebracht uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet/… #KolonialesErbe #Neuseland #Maori #Ethnologie @mwk-bw.bsky.social
Photo: Schlegel. Herzog, J. 1975. Ethnically Based Anti-Colonial Protest Movements and Problems of Establishing a United National Liberation Front in Tanganyika from the 1920ies to 1961. EAZ 16 (4).
📷🌳 Snapshot from the past:
Members of the TANU Youth League cultivating inhospitable grass and scrubland.
Photo is taken from Herzog, J. 1975. "Ethnically Based Anti-Colonial Protest Movements..." #EAZ 16 (4): 593-623. doi.org/10.54799/EQK...
#FieldworkPhoto #Archaeology #History
Stone tools from the cave Dam-Dam-cesme 2. Figure: G. Markov.
📜⛰️ #EAZ-Archive
One of the earliest systematic #excavations and full stratigraphic publications of a #prehistoric cave site in West Turkmenistan.
Markov, G.E. 1966. Dam-Dam-češme 2. EAZ 7 (1): 1‐18
#StoneAge #Archaeology #EAZ #CentralAsia
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This type of pottery is typical of the first farmers in Central and Northern Europe. To this day, the term ‘Funnel Beaker Culture’ is commonly used to describe these communities, although the term ‘culture’ is controversial in archaeology. - Copyright Uni Kiel
Has culture become obsolete as an archaeological concept?
A philosophical-archaeological study explores the meaning of a controversial term and links it to current debates....
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💡📢New publication!
The editorial for the special issue of #EAZ 59(2) addresses the issue of 'turns' in #archaeology as trends, inviting critical discussion on whether they are passing fads or productive shifts in archaeological #theory
doi.org/10.54799/YTR...
#anthropology #research #ontology
🤝📢New publication!
Introduction to #EAZ 59 (1) summarizes the studies published in the issue and explores why responsible archaeological #research today can't be imagined without ethnoarchaeological practice and #collaboration
doi.org/10.54799/NKV...
#archaeology #anthropology #heritage
Penascosa 5. Photo: A. T. Santos. CC BY 4.0
🧩📢New publication! #EAZ 59 (2)
A.T. Santos advances current debates around Upper #Palaeolithic #rockart by shifting the focus from imagery alone to the social appropriation of space, integrating landscape, spatial practice, ontology.
doi.org/10.54799/OAK...
#archaeology #anthropology #art #heritage
📣 #EAA2026 | #CfP🏺
Session 75 "Reviving the present past: Current perspectives on ethnoarchaeology" explores how #ethnoarchaeology can help us move beyond culturally shaped assumptions in #archaeological interpretation.
📆 Submission deadline: 05 Feb 2026
📌 Registration: www.e-a-a.org/eaa2026
⌛📄 We're starting 2026 by sharing our most-read articles last year for you to revisit or learn about:
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#eaz #archaeology #anthropology #history #ethnoarchaeology
📸A snapshot from the past – a vessel from Altgrieben, Slavic riverside settlement from the 7th–10th centuries CE. Photo: H. A. Knorr.
Knorr, Heinz A. 1975. “Altgrieben”. #EAZ – Ethnographisch-Archaeologische Zeitschrift 16 (3):387-407. doi.org/10.54799/TSR...
#FieldworkPhoto #Archaeology #Ceramics
Photo: Taschen.
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#EAZ 59 (1) now also features an annotation on the 2025 #Taschen re-edition of E.S. Curtis’s The #NorthAmericanIndian, with the focus on the regional and thematic focus, portrait style and the editorial and material qualities of the new edition
doi.org/10.54799/YMP...
#anthropology #photography
Several raised slab graves in a courtyard. Photo: O. P. Singh.
🪨 🤝📢 New publication announcement!
In the latest contribution to #EAZ 59 (1), O. P. Singh explores how communities of Northeast #India build meaning and solidarity through #megalith construction.
doi.org/10.54799/OOH...
#archaeology #anthropology #ethnoarchaeology #Indigenous #heritage
this week is dedicated to sharing beautiful, insightful, challenging OEA quotes.
"...allowing anthropology to insistently ask: whose ‘sustainability’ gets to count on the global stage? And what, exactly, is being sustained?" by Alice Rudge, found here: www.anthroencyclopedia.com/entry/sustai...