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EAZ journal (Kiel, Germany) aims to deepen understanding of past human lifeways by bridging #archaeology, #anthropology and #philosophy while addressing critical topics like social inequality, climate change and Indigenous sovereignty.
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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
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#anthropology #research #ontology
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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/…#KolonialesErbeb#Neuselandn#Maorir#Ethnologieie @mwk-bw.bsky.social
February 3, 2026 at 2:57 PM
📷🌳 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
February 5, 2026 at 8:26 AM
📜⛰️ #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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February 3, 2026 at 11:02 AM
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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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December 16, 2025 at 4:12 PM
💡📢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
January 27, 2026 at 10:13 AM
🤝📢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
January 22, 2026 at 9:09 AM
🧩📢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
January 20, 2026 at 9:38 AM
📣 #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
January 15, 2026 at 11:45 AM
⌛📄 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
January 13, 2026 at 4:38 PM
📸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
December 18, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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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
December 17, 2025 at 3:31 PM
🪨 🤝📢 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
December 11, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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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...
Sustainability
The term ‘sustainability’, as used in policy and common contemporary parlance, has a very European heritage, but its meanings and implications defy easy definition. While perhaps most famously the…
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December 8, 2025 at 11:31 AM
📆This is a reminder of the extended deadline for submissions to our special issue, 'Tool or Pitfall' (see details in the post below):
📢EAZ extends the deadline for submissions to the
special issue: "Tool or Pitfall? Obsolete Narratives in Prehistoric Archaeology – Questioning, Unlearning, Rethinking" ed. by S. Schaefer-Di Maida, V. Arponen, G. Di Maida.
Extended deadline: 31 Dec 2025.
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#CfP #EAZ
December 4, 2025 at 10:15 AM
📜 #EAZ-Archive:
Vol. 16, 4 (1975) is now available in our digital archive! Contribution varied from the history of #anti-colonial protest movement in #Tanganyika to studies on #feudalism and conception of the world in #ancient #China
#History #Archaeology
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December 2, 2025 at 8:26 AM
🤝📢 New publication announcement!
EAZ 59 (3) starts with a contribution on collaborative #archaeology in #TierraDelFuego: an archaeological team and co-authors from #Fuegian Communities share the results of years of work and mutual learning
doi.org/10.54799/JUV...
#anthropology #Indigenous #heritage
November 27, 2025 at 9:44 AM
📜 #EAZ-archives: This paper is devoted to an analysis of C. Schuchhardt’s "Alteuropa," focusing on the narrative style of archaeological synthesis
#History #Archaeology #EAZ
Eggert, M.K.H. 2010. „Carl Schuchhardt (1858-1943): Ein Rückblick Auf Alteuropa“. EAZ 51 (1/2) doi.org/10.54799/JLJ...
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November 25, 2025 at 11:36 AM
🦌📢New publication announcement!
In the latest addition to EAZ 59 (2), S.T. Hussain examines how deeply embedded Western assumptions shape the study of human–animal relations and argues for encountering the #deeppast on its own terms.
doi.org/10.54799/ILV...
#zooarchaeology #archaeology #StoneAge
November 20, 2025 at 10:15 AM
🐈📢 #EAZRecommends
19–21 November: Starting tomorrow, explore the world of #cats from multiple perspectives at the “CATS – Past & Present” conference in Rome (hybrid).
The programme & free online participation link here:
www.ethnoarchaeology.net/index.php/pr...
#conference #anthropology #archaeology
CATS - Past & present
First Announcement and Call for Papers The ltalian Association for Ethnoarchaeology (AIE) is pleased to announce the 1st INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCECATS - PAST AND PRESENT An interdisciplinary perspectiv...
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November 18, 2025 at 9:46 AM
📢New publication announcement for #EAZ 59 (1)! B.M. Sichert and colleagues link observations of a living #marketplace in #Morocco with the archaeological record and provide methods and reference data for detecting market activities in the past.
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Photo: A. Azizi. CC BY 4.0
November 13, 2025 at 8:44 AM
📜#EAZArchive: Vol. 16, 3 (1975) is now in our digital archive, featuring conference proceedings 'New #Research on the #History of the Western #Slavs' with excavation reports, studies of networks, features and artefact types, e.g., agricultural tools
#Archaeology
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November 11, 2025 at 9:53 AM
📑 #EAZRecommends: This paper uses community-based research at the homestead in #Alberta to show how applying methodologies from #Indigenous #archaeology to #Blackheritage studies can recover erased histories and create a more inclusive sense of belonging.
#Anthropology
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Exploring Black History of the Western Canadian Prairies: Community-Engaged Archaeology at the John Ware Homestead (EePo-29) - International Journal of Historical Archaeology
By preserving and celebrating Black heritage sites and telling their stories, archaeology can revise history in a way that includes the stories of the diverse individuals and communities who contribut...
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November 6, 2025 at 10:30 AM
📜EAZ-Archive: Vol. 16,2 (1975) is now available in our digital archive! This issue featured a number of contributions to the 'Provocation and Response' section on the historical periodisation in #AncientGreece and the Orient
#History #Archaeology #EAZ #EAZArchives
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November 4, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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Stefan Penders and Rita Morais explain the origins of the current diverse range of initiatives like #CoARA to tackle the publish-or-perish rat race and the renewed push to improve how careers in academia are assessed bit.ly/4oTAnk0

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August 26, 2025 at 11:57 AM