New 4SH

Jul 1, 2009 Alun The Past 1 Comment Anthropology, Archaeology, Vidi

There’s a new edi­tion of Four Stone Hearth live at Afar­en­sis. He’s done a great job with it, and he’s found plenty that I’ve missed.

Also, while I’m point­ing at things, Michael E Smith has a thought­ful post on agency and the prob­lems that hap­pen when archae­olo­gists try talk­ing about it. I’ve found often agent is a syn­onym of indi­vidual. Someone else I know sug­ges­ted soul. It might sound woolly, but a lot of talk about agency is, because people don’t often define what sort of agency they’re talk­ing about. Smith’s post shows another sort, from the polit­ical sci­ences, which clearly could be have applic­a­tions in archaeology.