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 BAR S2074 2010: Studies in Contemporary and Historical Archaeology 6 Wild Signs: Graffiti in Archaeology and History edited by Jeff Oliver and Tim Neal. ISBN 9781407306353. £30.00. v+103 pages; illustrated throughout with maps, plans, figures, drawings and photographs.
This, the sixth volume in the series ‘Studies in Contemporary and Historical Archaeology’, assembles a series of innovative studies in the historical archaeology of graffiti. Contents: 1) Wild Signs: An Introduction (Jeff Oliver and Tim Neal); 2) Basque Aspen Carvings: The Biggest Little Secret of Western USA (Joxe Mallea-Olaetxe); 3) Elbow Grease and Time to Spare: The Place of Tree Carving (Jeff Oliver and Tim Neal); 4) Magic Markers: The Evocative Potential of Carvings on Stanton Moor Edge, Derbyshire, UK (Stella McGuire); 5) Traces of Presence and Pleading: Approaches to the Study of Graffiti at Tewkesbury Abbey (Kirsty Owen); 6) Signs of the Times: Nineteenth – Twentieth Century Graffiti in the Farms of the Yorkshire Wolds (Katherine Giles and Melanie Giles); 7. ‘What the Frak is F**k?’ A Thematic Reading of the Graffiti of Bristol (Travis G. Parno); 8) ‘Theo Loves Doris’: Wild-Signs in Landscape and Heritage Context (John Schofield); 9) Painting The River’s Margins (Tiago Matos Silva); 10) In London You’re Never More Than 10 Feet from a Rat (Stencil): The Rat and Urban Folklore (Paul Cowdell); 11) Afterword (Victor Buchli).
BAR S2005 2009: Studies in Contemporary and Historical Archaeology 5 Defining Moments: Dramatic Archaeologies of the Twentieth-Century edited by John Schofield. ISBN 978 1 4073 0581 3. £35.00. ix+164; illustrated throughout with figures, maps, tables, drawings and photographs.
The shape of this collection of essays has emerged over time from an original session from the Theoretical Archaeology Group conference held at Cardiff in 1999. A few years later the original theme evolved through the then fledgling Contemporary and Historical Archaeology in Theory organisation, with its own series of books and conferences. This seemed an obvious home for ‘Defining Moments’ and the present volume appears after a decade-long gestation. Contents:1) 11.15 hrs, 24 June 2008 Drama and the moment (John Schofield); 2) 12.30 hrs, 12 December 1991 Marconi’s first transatlantic wireless message (Cassie Newland); 3) 11.40 hrs, 14 April 1912 The case of the RMS Titanic (David Miles); 4) 1 July 1916 The Battle of the Somme and the machine gun myth (Paul Cornish); 5) 11 August 1921 ? The discovery of insulin (E M Tansey); 6) 2 October 1925 From Ally Pally to Big Brother: Television makes viewers of us all (Martin Brown); 7) 1 June 1935 The introduction of compulsory driving tests in the United Kingdom: The neglected role of the state in motoring (John Beech) 80 Commentary: Visions of the twentieth century (Cornelius Holtorf) 9) 16/17 May 1943 Operation Chastise: The raid on the German dams (Richard Morris) 10) 11.30 hrs, 29 May 1953 Because it’s there: The ascent of Everest (Paul Graves-Brown); 11) 22.28:34 hrs (Moscow Time), 4 October 1957 The Space Age begins: The launch of Sputnik I, Earth’s first artificial satellite (Greg Fewer) 12) 11 February 1966 Proclamation 43 (Martin Hall); 13) March 1993 The Library of Babel: Origins of the World Wide Web (Paul Graves-Brown); 14) 0053 Hrs, 12 October 1998 The Murder of Matthew Wayne Shepard: An archaeologist’s personal defining moment (Thomas Dowson); 15) 00.00:00, 1 January 2000 ‘Three, two, one …?’: The material legacy of global millennium celebrations (Rodney Harrison); 16) n.d. Conservation and the British (Graham Fairclough).
BAR S1677 2007: Studies in Contemporary and Historical Archaeology 4 Contemporary and Historical Archaeology in Theory Papers from the 2003 and 2004 CHAT Conferences edited by Laura McAtackney, Matthew Palus and Angela Piccini. ISBN 9781407301150. £30.00. viii+118 pages; illustrated throughout with maps, plans, drawings and photographs.
This volume assembles some of the contributions to the first two annual meetings of the Contemporary and Historical Archaeology in Theory (‘CHAT’) conferences, held at Bristol University in November 2003 and Leicester University in November 2004. Bringing together a wide range of archaeological practitioners from higher education and from professional archaeology, these contributions explore the potential of archaeological studies of the recent and contemporary past from a range of perspectives. Included are studies that focus on a range of themes, and whilst diverse they are united by an awareness of archaeology as a contemporary practice, and of the radical potential for the extension of archaeological perspectives into the recent past and the contemporary world. 1) Preface (Mary C. Beaudry); 2) Introduction (Laura McAtackney and Matthew Palus); 3) Significance, value and property in the public face of archaeology (Matthew Palus and Christopher Matthews); 4) Epidemic of medicine: an archaeological dose of popular culture (Krysta Ryzewski); 5) Slavers, Swashbucklers, and salvors: the ethics of public presentation in nautical archaeology (Brian W Gohacki); 6) The Paradox of Progress: land survey and the making of agrarian society in colonial British Columbia (Jeff Oliver); 7) Constructing capitalism: speculation and social relations in the building industry, 1700-1850 (Martin Locock); 8) Some Geneaologies of Castles in Ireland (Andrew Tierney); 9) Cultures of antiquity and the practice of archaeology in Britain and Ireland (c.1700-1850): a postcolonial perspective (David Harvey); 10) Encounters between actors, audience and archaeologists at the Rose Theatre, 1587-1989 (Julian Bowsher); 11) Not surfing but drowning: historic environment data on the internet: addressing intellectual barriers to access (Martin Newman); 12) Concrete Islands (Paul Graves-Brown); 13) The contemporary and future landscape: Change and Creation in the later twentieth century (Graham Fairclough); 14) Titbits revisted: towards a respectable archaeology of Strait Street, Valletta, Malta (John Schofield and Emily Morrissey); 15) Cultural Identity and perceptions of slavery in the clove plantations of Zanzibar (Sarah Croucher); 16) From rhetoric to research: the Bloody Meadows project as a pacifist response to war (John and Patricia Carman); 17) Afterword: Towards an archaeology of the contemporary past (Victor Buchli).
 BAR S1632 2007: Studies in Contemporary and Historical Archaeology 3 ‘The Garden of the World’: An Historical Archaeology of Sugar Landscapes in the Eastern Caribbean by Dan Hicks. ISBN 9781407300467. £30.00. vi+119 pages; 5 tables; 23 figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs. 5 data Appendices.
This study uses the perspectives of what might be termed the ‘empirical tradition’ of British landscape archaeology that developed in the 1960s and 1970s, especially in industrial archaeology, to explore the early modern history of the ‘garden’ landscapes formed by British colonialism in the eastern Caribbean, and their place in the world. It presents a detailed chronological sequence of the changing material conditions of these English-/British-owned plantation landscapes during the 17th, 18th and early 19th centuries, with particular reference to the origins, history and legacies of the sugar industry. The study draws together the results of archaeological fieldwork and documentary research to present a progressive account of the historical landscapes of the islands of St Kitts and St Lucia: sketching a chronological outline of landscape change. This approach to landscape is characterised by the integration of archaeological field survey, standing buildings recording alongside documentary and cartographic sources, and focuses upon producing accounts of material change to landscapes and buildings. By providing a long-term perspective on eastern Caribbean colonial history: from the nature of early, effectively prehistoric contact and interaction in the 16th century, through early permanent European settlements and into the developed sugar societies of the 18th and 19th centuries, the study suggests a temporal and thematic framework of landscape change that might inform the further development of historical archaeology in the island Caribbean region. The broader aim of the study relates to exploring how archaeological techniques can be used to contribute a highly detailed, empirical case study to the interdisciplinary study of postcolonial landscapes and British colonialism. In order to achieve this goal, the study draws upon the techniques of what has been called the ‘empirical tradition’ of landscape archaeology.
 BAR S1558 2006: Studies in Contemporary and Historical Archaeology 2 Henry’s Mill: The Historical Archaeology of a Forest Community Life around a timbermill in southwest Victoria, Australia, in the early twentieth century by Peter Davies. ISBN 1841719889. £33.00. xi+145 pages; 14 figures, 28 tables, 19 plates. 3 data Appendices.
Studies in Contemporary and Historical Archaeology is a new series of edited and single-authored volumes intended to make available current work on the archaeology of the recent and contemporary past. The series brings together contributions from academic historical archaeologists, professional archaeologists and practitioners from cognate disciplines who are engaged with archaeological material and practices. In this, the second volume in the series, the author presents a nuanced account of 19th and 20th century forest sawmill communities in southern Victoria, Australia. Weaving together archaeological and historical data, issues of community development, isolation, integration, and consumption practices are sensitively explored. Not only does the volume make a valuable contribution to the historical archaeology of rural Australia, but it provides an extended case study for others studying the history and archaeology of temporary work communities elsewhere in the emerging modern world.
 BAR S1518 2006: Studies in Contemporary and Historical Archaeology 1 The Historical Archaeology of Pottery Supply and Demand in the Lower Rhineland, AD 1400-1800 An archaeological study of ceramic production, distribution and use in the city of Duisburg and its hinterland by David R. M. Gaimster. ISBN 1841719528. £37.00. 270 pages; 131 figures, maps, plans, drawings, graphs and tables. Eight data Appendices.
This study of post-medieval ceramic production and consumption in the Lower Rhineland is prefaced by a survey of previous work and approaches in the field.
With the initiation of large-scale urban excavations in the Lower Rhineland during the 1980s, particularly in the town of Duisburg, an extensive sequence of pottery has been recovered dating from c .1400 to 1800, enabling archaeologists for the first time to re-examine traditional chronologies, attributions and socio-economic interpretations. This survey comprises 95 individual assemblages of pottery from sites excavated in Duisburg and from towns and rural sites in the region. (Studies in Contemporary and Historical Archaeology is a new series of edited and single-authored volumes intended to make available current work on the archaeology of the recent and contemporary past. The series brings together contributions from academic historical archaeologists, professional archaeologists and practitioners from cognate disciplines who are engaged with archaeological material and practices.)
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