We invite contributions that engage with contemporary perspectives on antiquity linking the past to the present and cross traditional scholarly boundaries. In addition, we welcome papers that explore the multifaceted relationship between archaeological practice and the role of the past in current society by bringing to the fore current theoretical, political and heritage issues connected
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Interviews CIA 2021 Annual Meeting A Conversation with: Felipe CRIADO-BOADO ISSN: 2531-8810 Published online: December 2021 ISBN: 978-1-78969-894-7 DOI: https://doi.org/10.32028/vol6isspp227 Yannis HAMILAKIS ISSN: 2531-8810 Published online: December 2021 ISBN: 978-1-78969-894-7 DOI: https://doi.org/10.32028/vol6isspp233 Cornelius HOLTORF ISSN: 2531-8810 Published online: December 2021 ISBN: 978-1-78969-894-7 DOI: https://doi.org/10.32028/vol6isspp239 Lynn MESKELL ISSN: 2531-8810 Published online: December 2021 ISBN: 978-1-78969-894-7 DOI:
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Superare il guado: riflessioni su archeologia, storia sociale e modelli di autorappresentazione delle comunità antiche e moderne Valeria ACCONCIA ISSN: 2531-8810 Published online: December 2021 ISBN: 978-1-78969-894-7 DOI: https://doi.org/10.32028/vol6isspp125-157 Il Milione. The first 14 years of ERC funding to human past studies (SH6): an Italian perspective Giancarlo LAGO & Andrea DI RENZONI ISSN: 2531-8810 Published
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PART I Making Archaeology Public. A View from the Mediterranean, Eastern Europe and beyond. Foreword Editorial Board ISSN: 2531-8810 Published online:  December 2021 ISBN: 978-1-78969-894-7 DOI: https://doi.org/10.32028/vol6isspp1 Paper, perception and… facts? Exploring archaeological heritage management in the Mediterranean and the weight of public archaeology Jaime ALMANSA SÁNCHEZ ISSN: 2531-8810 Published online: December 2021 ISBN: 978-1-78969-894-7
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Making Archaeology Public. A View from the Mediterranean, Eastern Europe and Beyond The concept of Public Archaeology has profoundly changed since Mc Gimsey’s first formulation in the early 1970s, as it developed a solid conceptual and practical framework along the years that makes it now an independent branch of archaeology. However, in English-speaking and Northern
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(by Martina Revello Lami) Martina Revello Lami’s conversation with the author of the front and back cover closes the 2020 issue. It is now an established tradition for Ex Novo to host great artworks, but this year we launched an open call to select original creations inspired to the theme of the volume. The visionary
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(by Enrico Giannichedda) Prendendo le mosse dalle recenti acquisizioni dell’archeologia cognitiva, Michele Cometa, uno specialista di storia e teoria della letteratura, affronta in un corposo volume una questione fondamentale: la relazione fra produzione di utensili (i cicli produttivi), evoluzione del linguaggio, sviluppo di capacità narrative finalizzate a raccontare ‘storie’ utili. Una questione che, a mio
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(by Aydin Abar) This paper explores the ways in which the materiality of the Achaemenian Empire was incorporated into the narratives of different polities and political groups on the Iranian Highlands. These approaches, which have continued into the present day, have marked these sites as objects of appropriation, imposition, resistance and negotiation by various actors
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(by Marzia Luppi & Francesca Schintu) The historic site of Fossoli Camp is a unique stone witness which still bears the marks left by the central years of the twentieth century. During the Second World War it was a national camp for racial and political deportees, but its story extends to the 1970s when it
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(by Dagmar Zadrazilova) Tempelhof Airport in Berlin mirrors the political, social and cultural developments in the capital and – broadly – in the whole country. Tempelhof has witnessed the heyday of the 1920s aviation, figured in the National Socialists’ power politics and acquired a reputable status in the course of the 1948/49 Berlin Airlift. During
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