ANU Archaeology

14/05/2023

New Course offered in Winter session!

24/03/2023

Testing the amazing VR experience developed by Tom Chandler and team at Monash that we hope to use in the new course ARCH2030 Angkor:Power and Glory in S2 2023.

21/03/2023

Announcing a new course will be running in SoAA in Semester 2 of 2023. "Angkor: Power and Glory" should be up on Programmes and Courses in a few days time for those interested in enrolling.
I'm super excited to offer this and working on some interesting activities with Virtual Reality (fingers crossed!).

30/01/2023

“Australian archaeology’s journey from grand narratives to stories of local level diversities. There has been a refocus on diversity and complexity of the past.” Ash Lenton, Senior Lecturer at the ANU School of Cybernetics

Listen to more from Ash on his podcast titled Innovative Research in Australia: Diversity and Complexity in Australia’s past (https://fal.cn/3vobs) recorded with Professor Sean Ulm, Distinguished Professor and Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures (Cairns).


JCU: James Cook University, Australia The Australian National University

19/09/2022

So excited to announce that the first ever recipient of the Wise-Arch prize for Archaeological Field Research at is Tom Foley for his paper entitled 'Living with the Last of the First: Ethnoarchaeology Among the Hadzabe of Tanzania'.

This prize includes a field kit valued at over $200 and an invitation to present research at the first Wise-Arch Seminar Series launching in 2023!

Congratulations can't wait to see where you take your research next!

21/02/2022

11 vacant archaeology phd positions at the Excellence Cluster ROOTS, Kiel University. 6 are open to proposals, 5 have specific topics. Descriptions and application material available at the links below:

https://www.cluster-roots.uni-kiel.de/en/open-positions

https://www.cluster-roots.uni-kiel.de/en/open-positions/announcement-the-cluster-of-excellence-roots2019-invites-applications-for-11-phd-positions

(attn ANU abacus)

Announcement: The Cluster of Excellence ‘ROOTS’ invites applications for 11 PhD positions.

26/01/2022

https://mediterraneanarcha.wixsite.com/maarc/registration

19/12/2021

AAA Event Support Grants
The National Archaeology Week Event Support Grant is funded by the Australian Archaeological Association to provide financial support for events that increase public awareness of, and engagement with, Australian archaeology and the work of Australian archaeologists during National Archaeology Week.

Up to five grants each up to $500 in value are available to cover the following expenses:
· Venue hire
· A/V equipment hire
· Food and beverages (non-alcoholic)
· Printing and advertising
· Other expenses that are essential for running the event. Examples of expenses could be costs associated with organising a guest speaker to give a public talk; a Traditional Custodian to provide a Welcome to Country, Smoking Ceremony, or education session; a public excavation, walking tour, or scavenger hunt; or production of an educational resource.

The National Archaeology Week Event Support Grant is funded by the Australian Archaeological Association to provide financial support for events that increase public awareness of, and engagement with, Australian archaeology and the work of Australian archaeologists during National Archaeology Week.....

15/10/2021

"Die Ausgrabungen auf der Burg Wölpe":
"The Excavations at Burg Wölpe" by Jens Berthold, Erich Block, Elise Jakeman, Ash Lenton, Kristina Novak-Klimscha, Philip Piper, Emma Spencer, Patrick Tarner, Frank Wedekind, and Eboni Westbury.
Available from all good book sellers now.

11/10/2021

Foreign Countries: conversations in archaeology - new episode!
Archaeology of Later Prehistoric Europe: Cultural Transformations in Neolithic Central Europe.
https://foreigncountries.podbean.com/

Nils Müller-Scheeßel, Zuzana Hukeľová, John Meadows, Ivan Cheben, Johannes Müller & Martin Furholt. 2021. “New burial rites at the end of the Linearbandkeramik in south-west Slovakia” in Antiquity Vol. 95 (379): 65–84.

The recent discovery of several late Linearbandkeramik (LBK) sites in Central Europe, including Vráble in south-west Slovakia, has revealed evidence for increasing diversity in Neolithic mortuary practices, which may reflect inter-community war and sociopolitical crisis at the end of the LBK. Here, the authors combine osteological and radiocarbon analyses of inhumations from Vráble. Rather than a straightforward sign of inter-community conflict and war, this development reflects a culmination of internal conflict and a diversification in the ritual treatment of human bodies. The emerging variability in LBK methods of manipulating and depositing dead bodies can be interpreted as an experimental
approach in how to negotiate social conflicts and community boundaries.

Ana Grabundžija, Helmut Schlichtherle, Urs Leuzinger, Wolfram Schier & Sabine Karg. 2021. “The interaction of distant technologies: bridging Central Europe using a techno-typological comparison of spindle whorls” in Antiquity Vol. 95 (381): 627–647.

The study of prehistoric textile production requires the excavation of sites with exceptional organic preservation. Here, the authors focus on thread production using evidence from two fourth-millennium BC pre-Alpine wetland sites: Arbon-Bleiche 3 in Switzerland and Bad Buchau-Torwiesen II in southern
Germany. A comparison of the spindle whorls from these two settlements with a contemporaneous East-Central European dataset suggests that multiple culture-historical groups with distinct technological signatures inhabited Neolithic Central Europe. Furthermore, the spatial distribution of conical spindle
whorls within the pre-Alpine settlements suggests the immigration of both people and technology from the east, thereby illuminating the wider themes of mobility and innovation in prehistoric Europe.

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