“Toepferei in Afrika” (1967) is an ethnographic study that documented the techniques and traditions of pottery-making across Africa. The review is available at the link below.
#Africa #Pottery-Making #BookReview #EAZ #EAZArchives
https://doi.org/10.54799/IHFC8405

In "Fictitious Tradition and Cultural Memory", Holger Wendling explores how the past can be used to validate the present, based on Celtic cultural remains.
#CelticHistory #IronAge #Archaeology #EAZ #EAZArchives
https://doi.org/10.54799/BJVX5053

What role did kinship and marriage rules play in maintaining social order? How did taboos shape interactions between certain family members, and why were some relationships considered ‘half-taboo’? Discover with this publication from our archives.
#Australia #Taboo #Anthropology #EAZ #EAZArchives
https://doi.org/10.54799/XIAE4102

EAZ Vol. 15, No. 4 (1974) is now available online! With contributions covering, among others, the archaeology and ethnography of the Caucasus, physical anthropology, along with reviews of a number of palynological publications and conference reports, including the II Symposion Byzantinon in Strasbourg, the volume is now added to our archives.
#Archaeology #Palynology #AcademicPublishing #EAZ #EAZArchives
Read here: https://www.eaz-journal.org/index.php/eaz/issue/view/103

📚 EAZ Vol. 15, No. 4 (1974) is now available online! With contributions covering, among others, the #archaeology and #ethnography of the #caucasus, #physicalanthropology along with reviews of a number of palynological publications and conference reports, including the II Symposion Byzantinon in Strasbourg, the volume is now added to our archives.
#Archaeology #Palynology #AcademicPublishing #EAZ #EAZArchives
Read here: https://www.eaz-journal.org/index.php/eaz/issue/view/103

This conference report (1970) from our archives covers a workshop on the social structure of the Ancient Near East in the 2nd millennium BC.
#AncientNearEast #Mesopotamia #Assyriology #EAZ #EAZArchives
https://doi.org/10.54799/GMVC9094

In early 2017, EAZ invited German-speaking archaeologists - representing at least three generations of researchers - to share their perspectives on the future of archaeological theory, which formed a Provocation & Response section of Vol. 56, No. 1/2 (10 contributions).
#ArchaeologicalTheory #AcademicDebate #Archaeology #EAZ #EAZArchives
https://doi.org/10.54799/PEGG4053
Vol. 56, No. 1/2 https://www.eaz-journal.org/index.php/eaz/issue/view/58

Today we are looking at the rituals behind ancient constructions and the concept of ‘building sacrifices’.
#Bauopfer #Rituals #Archaeology #EAZ #EAZArchives
https://doi.org/10.54799/ZTES1444

This review (1970) concerns the first volume of the ethnomedical journal Etnoiatria, published in 1967-1968 by the Istituto Italiano di Etnoiatria in Varese.
#Ethnomedicine #MedicalAnthropology #IndigenousKnowledge #EAZ #EAZArchives
https://doi.org/10.54799/DERR9740

This review discusses the book on the history of ploughs and hooks as key agricultural tools in the northern German region, exploring their historical and cultural significance.
#FarmInventories #MedievalAgriculture #AgriculturalHistory #EAZ #EAZArchives
https://doi.org/10.54799/FSDM3999