Learning, Teaching, Changing African Archaeologies Spanish – Algerian teams surveying the area at the foot of the Royal Mausoleum of Mauretania (Photo Credits @ Javier Rodriguez Pandozi) Our understanding of African archaeologies is often affected by Eurocentric, colonialist, and post-colonialist perspectives. These shape our perception of Africa as this singular monolith of backwardness, devastation,
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Unravelling threads of time: Intersections of archaeology, myth, and identity Editors: M. Revello Lami, J. Garcia-Sanchez & M. Gori Embark on a journey through time with the 7th issue of Ex Novo Journal of Archaeology, where history, myth, and identity intersect to untangle the interwoven fabric of our shared past and present. Papers gathered in
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Balkan Archaeology as a Laboratory. Challenging Old Paradigms and Experimenting with New Ones Edited by Maja Gori, Daniela Heilmann & Kristina Penezić The two main shifts that have challenged traditional paradigms of interpretation in European and world archaeology – the emergence of processualism starting in the late 1960s and the ensuing counter movement of post-processual
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Dealing with the Legacies of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany (Ex Novo Vol. 5) Guest Editor Flamina Bartolini The fifth volume of Ex Novo has the pleasure to host Flaminia Bartolini as guest editor for the special issue titled Heritage in the Making. Dealing with Legacies of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. This collection of
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DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS SUBMISSION EXTENDED TO THE 15TH DECEMBER!!! 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 European countries, the
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by Alessandro Pintucci 12 June 2020 Tutto l’ambaradan intorno alla rimozione dei monumenti agli schiavisti: critica (un po’) ragionata* [For English see below] Scrivo questo pezzo di getto, nei giorni delle proteste in America e poi in tutto il mondo, per la morte di George Perry Floyd, un uomo afroamericano che a Minneapolis è morto
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Ex Novo Vol. 4, December 2019 Edited by H. Van Londen, M. J. Schlaman, A. Travaglia The fourth volume of Ex Novo has the pleasure to host Heleen van Londen, Marjo J. Schlaman, and Andrea Travaglia as guest editors of the special issue titled The Natural and The Cultural. Integrating Approaches in Landscape Heritage Management.
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Practices, Representations and Meanings Volume 3, 2018 Edited by M. Gori, A. Pintucci & M. Revello Lami It has been abundantly demonstrated that theories and paradigms in the humanities are influenced by historical, economic and socio-cultural conditions, which have profoundly influenced archaeology’s representation of migration. This was mostly conceived as the study of the movement
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The ExN Blog is now accepting blog posts. We welcome original think pieces and editorials on topics related to social archaeology including: politics and archaeology public archaeology the legacies of colonialism and nationalism within the discipline the articulation between local and global archaeological traditions the discipline’s involvement in memory and identity museum studies and restitution
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Practices, Representations and Meanings Of Human Mobility in Archaeology Every society experiences movement. As a structural component of human behavior and human mind, movement necessarily influences ways of thinking, relations of people to space, time, tradition, the organization of societies, and also modifies the perception of things and human relations to them. Mobility has been
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