Contesting Ethnoarchaeologies

Arkadiusz Marciniak is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Poznań in Poland. His expertise is in the development of early farming communities in western Asia and central Europe and their progression to complex societies. His other interests comprise zooarchaeology of farming communities, archaeological theory and history of archaeological thought as well as archaeological heritage and political context of practicing archaeology. He is also involved in projects on distance learning solutions in archaeology and archaeological heritage. He has published extensively in peer-reviewed books and journals.Nurcan Yalman did her PhD on ethnoarchaeology of Anatolia at the University of Istanbul, Turkey. She conducted intensive ethnoarchaeological works in Turkey as well participated in numerous archaeological excavations of the Neolithic settlements in the Near East. She is also a renewed specialist in pottery studies. Recently she is working on theoretical and methodological issues of Shared Cultural Heritage Projects, including field schools within the Centre for International Heritage Activities-Leiden.

• Arkadiusz Marciniak & Nurcan E. Yalman – Introduction. Non-American ethnoarchaeologies in the history of archaeological thought.- I. Traditions of ethnoarchaeology outside the Anglo-American contexts.- Valentine Roux, Ethnoarchaeology in France: Trends and perspectives.- Francesca Lugi, Ethnoarchaeology in Italy.- Ruth Struwe, German ethnoarchaeological traditions from a theoretical and conceptual viewpoint – past and present.- Zbigniew Kobylinski, Włodzimierz Hołubowicz – pioneer of ethnoarchaeology of pottery-making.- Petar Zidarov, Małgorzata Grębska-Kulow, Ethnoarchaeology on the Balkans. A view from Bulgaria.- Nurcan E. Yalman, The history of ethnoarchaeology in Turkey and its place in archaeological thought.- Aleksandr V. Kenig, S. S. Tikhonov, M. A. Korusenko, The development of ethnoarchaeological thought in Russian archaeology.- Kong Ling Yuan, Ethnoarchaeology in China.- II. Significance of ethnoarchaeology of the 21st century.- Willeke Wendrich, Ethnoarchaeology today: the relevance of a discipline from the Egyptian perspective.- Marius-Tiberiu Alexianu, Saturated model. A first application in world and Romanian ethno-archaeology.- Turan Takaoğlu, The living Ottomans past: Rethinking ethnoarchaeology in Turkey.- Martin H. Wobst, Non Anglophone ethno-archaeologies.