History (Archaeology)

Reading and Misreading V. Gordon Childe in North America

by Randall McGuire

This paper was published in Catalan as:

McGuire, Randall H.
2007 Llegint I Malinterpretant V. Gordon Childe a l’America del Nord. Cota Zero: Revista D'arqueologia I Ciència 22:32-43.

In North America, as in the rest of the world, V. Gordon Childe is one of the best-known and most cited archaeologists... more In North America, as in the rest of the world, V. Gordon Childe is one of the best-known and most cited archaeologists of the 20th century. Childe had a long and significant association with North American anthropology and archaeology. Many of his ideas had a profound influence on North American scholarship that continues until today. North American archaeologists, however, never quite knew what to make of Childe and his theory. Throughout most of the second half of the century they consistently misread Childe, labeling him first a diffusionist, then as a neo-evolutionist. On the one hand, they correlated his concerns with history, diffusion, and archaeological cultures with a normative culture history. On the other hand, he seemed a neo-evolutionary materialist who took a systemic view of society, studied evolutionary change and searched for patterning in the archaeological record. Yet his ideas never fit easily into the pigeonholes of culture history or cultural evolution, and few North American archaeologists studied his writings on society and knowledge. It was only at the end of the 20th century, when a handful of Anglophone archaeologists became serious about reading Marx, that scholars in North America began to study, understand and employ the totality of Childe’s thought.

Foreword: of fishhooks, biscuits and history

by Matthew Campbell

2004. Archaeology in New Zealand, 47(4): 1–3
in M. Campbell (ed) Digging into History: 50 years of the New Zealand Archaeological Association (AINZ special issue)

The Dendrochronology of Palluche Canyon, Dinétah

by Linah Ababneh, Ph.D.

Linah N. Ababneh, Ronald H. Towner, Mary M. Prasciunas, Karen T. PorterSource: Kiva, Vol. 66, No. 2 (Winter, 2000), pp. 267-289:

The ancestral Navajo homeland of Dindtah in northwestern New Mexico contains hundreds, if not thousands, of Navajo... more The ancestral Navajo homeland of Dindtah in northwestern New Mexico contains hundreds, if not thousands, of Navajo archaeological sites that date from the A.D. 1500s through the late 1700s. A subset of these sites, known as pueblitos, are masonry structures located in defensible positions on boulder tops, mesa rims, and other topographically isolated settings. This paper presents dendrochronological data from the newly discovered site of Twine House (Kin T'lool), confirms the provenance of samples collected in the 1950s from the site of 42 Pueblito, and re-evaluates all tree-ring data from every sampled pueblito site in Palluche Canyon, a major tributary of Cation Largo in the heart of Dindtah. The spatial and temporal aspects of the pueblito sites suggest that Palluche Canyon was colonized, depopulated, and re-occupied by a kin-based group of eighteenth-century Navajos, possibly similar to the ethnographically documented Navajo "outfit."

RESUMEN La tierra ancestral de los Navajos, Dinedtah, al noroeste de Nuevo Mixico, contiene cientos sino miles de sitios arqueol6gicos Navajos que datan desde 1500 al final de 1700. Una subdivisi6n de esos sitios, conocidos como "pueblitos, " son estructuras de piedra localizadas en lugares defendibles como en la cima de peiias, bordes de mesas u otros elementos topogrdficos aislados. Este articulo presenta los datos dendrocronol6gicos del sitio Twine House (Kin Tl'ool) de reciente descubrimiento, confirma laproveniencia de las muestras tomadas en los 50s del sitio 42 Pueblito y reevaltia todos los datos dendrocronol6gicos colectados de los sitiospueblito en el Caif6n Palluche, un tributario mayor del CaR6n Largo en el coraz6n del Dindtah. El aspecto temporal y espacial de los sitios pueblito sugiere que el Cai6n Palluche fue colonizado, abandonado y vuelto a poblar por un grupo de parentela comu'n Navajo del siglo XVIII, posiblemente similar a los grupos Navajos identificados etnogrdficamen

Bronze Vases from Galaxidi: Preliminary Report

by Athanasios Sideris

Co-authored with Eleni Zimi. Paper in Greek published in the Proceedings of the 1st Scientific Conference on Galaxid: P. Themelis, R. Stathaki-Koumari (eds.), Galaxidi from Antiquity to Modern period. Galaxidi, 29-30 September 2000 (Athens 2003)

The paper discusses the bronze vases found in Galaxidi (ancient Chaleion in Ozolian Lokris) and presents a... more The paper discusses the bronze vases found in Galaxidi (ancient Chaleion in Ozolian Lokris) and presents a representative sample of 26 out of more than one hundred. Their dates range from the late 7th century BC to the 1st century AD. They were mostly grave goods and have been looted and scattered to more than a dozen museums arround the world during the late 19th century.

Antikyra: An Ancient Phokian City

by Athanasios Sideris

Paper in Greek

The paper deals with the history and archaeology of the Phokian city of Antikyra, from the Mycenaean to Byzantine... more The paper deals with the history and archaeology of the Phokian city of Antikyra, from the Mycenaean to Byzantine periods.

Les tombes de Derveni: quelques remarques sur la toreutique

by Athanasios Sideris

The Athletic Body: Image and Power

by Athanasios Sideris

Imeros 5.1 (2005), Proceedings of the International Conference "Athletics, Society and Identity"

Natural Water Resources and the Sacred in Attica: A Geography of Sacred Water

by Etienne Dunant

in C. Kosso and A. Scott (eds.), The Nature and Function of Water, Baths, Bathing and Hygiene from Antiquity through the Renaissance (Brill, 2009)