‘Around the Ancient World in 22 Journals’: The global reach of Cambridge’s open access publishing in Archaeology
Cambridge is proud to publish Archaeology journals that span every region of the world and all periods of history
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Kant on language, culture and politics
We live in a world of great cultural and linguistic diversity, and even greater diversity of opinion. It’s often unclear what role this diversity should play in the formation and application of philosophical principles.…
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Elements in Victorian Literature, Science, and the Environment
Many eco-scholars today have lamented our current tendency to soft denial. We acknowledge major environmental concerns such as climate change while continuing to go about our lives as if they don’t exist.…
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Revisiting the Cinema Special Topic
In the May 1991 issue of PMLA, then editor John W. Kronik begins his “Editor’s Note” by announcing that the current volume of the journal “has elicited strong responses, praise as well as reproof, even before the year is out” (393).…
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National Endowment for the Humanities-Funded Archaeological Archive of Huhugam Archaeology Delivers Lasting Impact in the Southwest
In an era of shrinking research budgets and political pressure to justify public investment, federally funded digital archives in archaeology are delivering measurable, lasting benefits to scholars, land managers, Indigenous communities, and the public.…
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The Statues from the Antikythera Shipwreck, 125 Years Later
In the mid-1st century BCE, a freighter laden with Greek art was sailing westward in the Mediterranean when it crashed and rapidly foundered, taking some of its crew and passengers down with it.…
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A fragment of Aristotle’s lost Eudemus in Tertullian’s De Anima
Aristotle is certainly one of the most foundational, influential, and therefore heavily commented on and thoroughly studied figures in the history of philosophy.…
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The Franco-German Brigade: A Mirror of Integration—and Its Limits
When the Franco-German Brigade (FGB) was established in 1989, it was hailed as a unique experiment in postwar Europe. Never before had soldiers from two former enemies served permanently under a shared command structure in times of peace.…
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Political Disinformation on the Eve of Reform
The ‘Vote Leave’ or ‘Brexit’ bus which toured the UK in 2016 plastered with the blunt assertion ‘We send the EU £350 million a week’ is an infamous recent example of political disinformation.…
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The IVF Pioneers: Who Really Wrote Their Autobiography?
This blog post is about the author’s recent paper in Medical History, The ghostwriter and the test-tube baby: a medical breakthrough story For 45 years A Matter of Life has provided the standard account of the science and medicine behind the sensational birth of the first ‘test-tube baby’.…
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Trust and the French revolutionary cahiers of 1789
The French Revolution is more obviously associated with paranoid and deadly suspicion than with trust, but it was in the pervasive desire to rebuild a political system that could be trustworthy that much of that suspicion was born.…
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A News Revolution?: The Imperial Public Sphere and the Destabilization of the British Empire
The news connects individuals and communities across space at certain moments in time. One need only think back to recent events like the Arab Spring, the Refugee Crisis, or COVID to find striking examples of this fact.…
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How cadaver scarcity shaped the racial science of skin in Enlightenment Europe
This blog post is based on the article ‘Abraham Bäck, scarcity, and the racial anatomy of skin’ published in The Historical Journal: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X25101039…
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What is Community Archaeology’s Value for Our Discipline’s Future?
Research programs that are deeply engaged with, and responsive to, communities require significant investment to build and sustain. Why, then, should archaeologists — often constrained by time and resources–commit to community archaeology?…
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What Makes a Good Review Article or Profile
Classical Review has recently expanded its standard work of publishing reviews and notices of single books to include also longer pieces covering more – and more varied – material.…
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Rhapsody in Maya Blue
Visitors to many of the archaeological sites in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize and Honduras are often struck by the bright blue paint on architectural sculptures and frescoed murals at these sites.…
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Protecting Heritage in War: the Power of Local Action
Is it possible to protect cultural heritage during a war? And if so, how can it be done meaningfully and effectively?…
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Elements in Race in American Literature and Culture
Elements in Race in American Literature and Culture aims to extend our understanding of the critical role race has played in shaping US literary history.…
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Why Care About Culture When the World Is on Fire?
With the world facing war, climate change, pandemics, and civil unrest, it’s natural to question the importance of preserving culture. Why should we care about archaeology, monuments, traditions, art, and architecture when survival itself is threatened?…
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Revising An Economic History of Europe for a Rapidly Changing World
How we updated the classic textbook An Economic History of Europe to reflect changes both in the world and in how we teach and learn economic history.
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Representing Practice in Advances Covers
Advances in Archaeological Practice covers are most often experienced as a tiny thumbnail shot either on the Cambridge Core website, or perhaps on social media.…
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A new editorial team for Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society
We are very excited to have been chosen as the new editors for Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society (PPS), the flagship journal of the Prehistoric Society.…
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Saying Yes – to both Practice and Community in Archaeology
Chris Dore, our current Society for American Archaeology (SAA) president, was Advances in Archaeological Practice’s first editor, and in 2022, on the journal’s tenth anniversary he reflected on the journal’s origins.…
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A conversation with the historian of science Lorraine Daston
Lorraine Daston is an American historian of science whose work spans a broad range of topics in the early modern and modern history of science.…
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The roots of honour: babies’ ‘struggle for recognition’ in Greek literature and thought
Can babies have honour? Can they be recognised as agents? And can they take part in dynamics of recognition? If we consider ancient Greek sources, both literary and philosophical, we can get a positive answer to these questions – an answer that strikingly converges with what developmental scientists tell us about babies’ psychology.…
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Cuerpo, mestizaje y colonialidad: La alteridad de las mujeres trans en las muestras fotográficas Padre Patria y Vírgenes de la Puerta/
The photographic series “Padre Patria” (2014) and “Vírgenes de la Puerta” (2014), by Juan José Barboza-Gubo and Andrew Mroczek, offer a visual narrative of hate crimes against the LGBTI community in different parts of Peru.…
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French European Diplomacy post-2024 – the Little Entente Revisited?
French president Emmanuel Macron outlined his new vision for French foreign policy in a speech on 5 March 2025. He argued that the Russian invasion of Ukraine posed a threat to all of Europe.…
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Into the Heart of the San José Galleon: Where Gold Meets Archaeology
Many sites around the world have been harmed because they were targeted for profit rather than for research. When objects are valued mainly for their economic worth, we miss out on the reach and diverse stories they can tell.…
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Laetoli footprints: the relationship between the two individuals
For more on this topic, read the full article, Relationship between trackmakers of the Laetoli footprints from gait synchronization, by Wataru Nakahashi.…
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Pensar los 30.000 Que sabíamos sobre los desaparecidos durante la dictadura y lo que ignoramos todavía
The 1970s remain a minefield in Argentina. Nothing underscores this more than the discussion about who is responsible for the cycle of political violence and the number of missing persons, a topic that recurs time and again, dividing those who openly hold denialist positions on the one hand and those who uphold the symbol of the 30,000 on the other.…
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Performance, Prefiguration, and Politics at Attica
How do we define success in radical politics? This is a question I have asked myself throughout my research and writing on what many historians, politicians, and colleagues deem a sensational, unequivocal failure. The Attica Prison Uprising began with a flash of possibility yet ended with dozens killed and even more wounded, setting off a slew of pro-carceral propaganda from the Nixon and Rockefeller administrations amid intensifying mass incarceration. What does it mean to recognize the Attica Prison Uprising as a success, and what tools might we find in the language of performance for making this kind of political assessment?
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Exploring the Arrival of Domestic Cats in the Americas
Plenty has been written about the dog. Slobbery, goofy, embarrassingly friendly, with… well, everyone. Dogs are prominently featured in historic accounts and paintings, loaded down with ingratiating platitudes like “man’s best friend”.…
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The Next Phase of Advances in Archaeological Practice: From the Incoming Editor
I remember when Volume 1, Issue 1 of Advances in Archaeological Practice (AAP) was published in 2013. I was a graduate student at the time, undertaking dissertation research on the processes of inclusion and exclusion in the archaeological data collection process.…
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How Globalization Disrupted the Stars
Early modern globalisation—particularly maritime expansion and the discovery of the southern hemisphere—posed significant challenges to the traditional framework of astrology inherited from Ptolemaic cosmology.…
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Illuminating the Parthenon in 3D
Parthenon Ancient Greece Acropolis Athens Archaeology 3D CGI Reconstruction Athena Temple Greek
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Pardo Soldiers’ Historical Claims in Late Eighteenth-Century Cuba
José Maldonado and Manuel José Castellanos were two Cuban pardo veterans who petitioned the court in hopes of securing military status, rank, and salary.…
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Transplanting kingship
Once upon a time in Paphos, so tells Plutarch (Mor. 340d), Alexander the Great decided that the reigning king was unjust and wicked, and removed him from his throne.…
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Digital projects reviews: The importance of digital resources for studying and teaching the ancient world
Last year, the editors of Classical Review announced that we would begin reviewing digital projects. This move recognises both the importance of digital resources for how we study and teach the ancient world, and the important roles that scholars of antiquity have played in the development of the digital humanities ecosystem.…
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Celebrating 2000 Elements: Elements in Popular Music
I am series editor of the CUP Elements in Popular Music. I’ve previously edited a number of journals and was pleased to take the lead in a new series of publications that could cover a wide range of topics in the field.…
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A History of Archaeology at Sparta
The Annual of the British School at Athens (ABSA) has long been a preferred repository of research on Sparta. This introduction provides a brief history of research in the region and an account of further developments in archaeological and historical research.…
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Meet the Editors: Tristan R. Grunow and Mary M. McCarthy, Editors for Asia-Pacific Journal
We are pleased to introduce ourselves to the Cambridge Core family as the co-editors of Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus. Tristan is a professor of modern Japanese history at Nagoya University, specializing in colonialism, architecture, urban planning, film, and pop culture.…
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The Fronde, the Court, and the Cosmos: Morin, Gassendi, and Astrology’s Decline in XVII Century France
Astrology today is often seen as the epitome of pseudoscience. Yet, until the 17th century, it was considered a legitimate scholarly discipline, serving as the practical branch of astronomy.…
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“Nous les mamans“: ‘European’ Communism, Cross-Cultural Encounters, and Women’s Anticolonial Resistance in French North Africa
Mention the words “women” and “Algeria” and the remarkableness of their role in armed resistance during the War of Independence (1954-1962) will often come to mind.…
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Submerged Aircraft Wrecks: A Plea for Appropriate Site Management
Famed Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier once wrote “war was the hellish laboratoryin which aviation became adult and was shaped to flawless perfection.”…
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Kach Kouch, Morocco: shedding light on late prehistoric Mediterranean Africa
When we think of the Bronze and Early Iron Age Mediterranean, it’s easy to picture the flourishing societies of Europe and the eastern Mediterranean.…
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Military Intimacies: Peruvian Veterans and Narratives about Sex and Violence
Many researchers and writers have considered the question why soldiers in conflict situations rape civilian and enemy populations. Few works have been able to research motivations of soldiers directly with them. We carried out in-depth interviews with ex-combatants (recruits) of the Peruvian Internal Armed Conflict, to examine the complex dynamics in which sexual violence became a widespread practice among soldiers—how did ordinary young men become perpetrators of sexual atrocity?
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PMLA Articles in the College Classroom
Many years ago, while still in graduate school, I was helping a group of undergraduates understand a scholarly essay about translation, when one student asked me (with all good intentions): “Why do we need to know this?”…
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From Brexit to Environmental Destruction: Understanding Modern Britain with James Vernon
What inspired you to write a book on the history of Modern Britain? There were two motivations. I was interested in rescuing national histories from the nativism of the right. Of course, in Britain that virulent type of nationalism swept the country with Brexit, but across the world authoritarian populists have also evoked nativist histories that they promise will make their country great again.
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Making Trust in Early Modern London
In the bustling streets of medieval and early modern London, trust was a precious commodity, just as it is today. But who did Londoner’s choose to trust?…
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Policing and pension reform in nineteenth-century London
In the late nineteenth century, at the same as large corporations began to emerge as central features of industrial capitalism, parallel developments were taking place in state bureaucracies across western economies.…
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Female Housewives and Male Engineers: Co-Creating Japan’s Appliance Innovation
It may seem improbable, but the columns in a housewives’ magazine were the unexpected source of innovation in Japan’s appliance industry.…
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Albert Aftalion’s meso-approach to theorising the morphologies of industrial capitalism can help us better understand how to achieve energy transitions
Capitalism as an economic system is untied to any technology, resource endowment or political arrangement. Its versatility made it capable of extraordinary morphological changes, from the late medieval ‘games of exchange’ (Braudel) to classical industrial capitalism (Marx) and its socially oriented, non-laissez faire version (Keynes), down to the late twentieth-century global financial capitalism and, more recently, its tentative retrenchment within cultural and politically homogeneous spheres.…
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Spanish–French leech trade and its consequences: From the increase in medical demand to resource depletion and technical innovation
This article studies the impact caused by the success and dissemination of theories of the French Doctor, Françoise J.V. Broussais, on the use of leeches as a medical supply on Spanish–French trade relations, as well as its consequences for the Spanish market between 1821 and the 1860s.…
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Racism and Colonialism in Hegel’s Philosophy:
A Conversation with the Guest Editors of the Hegel Bulletin Themed Issue, Daniel James and Franz Knappik
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“The state tells the story”: how sovereignty and territoriality changed banditry forever
Banditry played recognisable and widely accepted roles societies up to the 19th-century throughout the world
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Archaeological Practice in the Southeast United States
As the Southeastern Archaeological Conference (SEAC) begins, I examined Southeastern-focused articles in Advances in Archaeological Practice to identify emerging trends. Southeastern methodology may best be known for the 1950s Ford-Spaulding debate; however, this review shows that Southeastern methodology is still breaking new ground in archaeology.…
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Commemorating “Mr. Production”: The Life and Plans of Étienne Hirsch (1901-94)
17th May 2024 marked the 30th anniversary of the death of the French engineer, and civil servant Etienne Hirsch, who served as French General Planning Commissioner between 1952 and 1959.…
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‘Computational Humanities Research’: A new open access journal at the intersection of computational methods and the humanities
We are delighted to launch Computational Humanities Research. The journal offers a new venue for cutting-edge scholarship at the intersection of computational methods and the humanities. We are excited to build this new scholarly conversation together with scholars from around the world and to reach a global audience through Gold Open Access.
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Did COVID-19 Increase Xenophobia? Results from a Four-wave Longitudinal Study
The global pandemic brought unprecedented challenges and changes to societies worldwide. Beyond the immediate health crisis, there was a significant impact on our social lives. One area of concern was whether the heightened risk of infectious diseases would lead to increased xenophobia—fear or hatred of foreigners and immigrants. A popular hypothesis from the behavioral immune system literature said yes. It suggests that negative attitudes toward outgroups serve pathogen-neutralizing functions.
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A Flagship Venture in Humanities
As Editors-in-Chief of a new cross-disciplinary journal with an audience spanning a huge range of sectors, it is fitting that Zoe Hope Bulaitis and Jeffrey R. Wilson have remarkably distinct backgrounds. Zoe, a first-generation literature scholar, grew up in London with a passion for indie music and later developed a love of the sea during a decade at the University of Exeter – while Jeff grew up in Kansas, in the middle of the USA and in his words “pretty far off the usual pathways to academia”. What unites them is a love of literature; Jeff’s interest in public humanities was spawned by a fascination in debates around the works of William Shakespeare, while Zoe pursued journalism as a potential career before “falling in love with longer-forms of writing and collaborative academic work” during her MA at Exeter.
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Fredric Jameson in PMLA; or, “Metacommentary” and More
Our greatest thinker, Fredric Jameson, died on 22 September 2024 at the age of ninety. His example of socially meaningful interpretation—indeed, his commitment to Marxism—is fundamental, now more than ever.…
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The End of Theatre Groups?
TDR’s (delayed) Fall 2024 issue (67, 3) features a retrospective on SITI Company, which began in 1992 and disbanded in 2022.…
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Bad Taxidermy and Scattered Human Bones – A Ritual from the Iron Age Steppes
Horses played an indispensable role in the world of the Iron Age steppe, influencing everyday life, warfare, and ceremonial practices. Comprising a flamboyant art style and a unique way of life including horseback archery, Scythian material culture has long intrigued archaeologists.…
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Bibles and Bible Translating in Early Modern England
There are some 6 billion bibles circulating across the globe and a further 100 million printed every year. Each of these copies, from the children’s illustrated editions to the grandly bound King James Bibles, make a claim to be the textual and material expression of God’s Word: the Word made Book.…
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The je ne sais quoi of American Antiquity
After much work by the American Antiquity (AAQ) Editorial Advisory Board, a revised description and vision of American Antiquity has been drafted for the website home page.…
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Using the illustrative process to reconstruct ceramic design
Following my participation in an extensive illustration project in 2001 of precontact decorated ceramics from the Hohokam site of Snaketown that were curated at the Arizona State Museum, I wrote an article published by AAP in 2014 called Representation and Structure Conflict in the Digital Age: Reassessing Archaeological Illustration and the Use of Cubist Techniques in Depicting Images of the Past. …
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Unexpected past customs at Paquimé, Mexico, uncovered by ancient DNA
Have you taken a direct-to-consumer ancestry test and had an unexpected or shocking result? Perhaps your ancestors were from a different part of the globe than you expected, or you found a long-lost relative.…
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The discovery and investigation of a thirteenth-century shipwreck
Antiquity author and Diving and Maritime Archaeology Officer at Bournemouth University Tom Cousins explores the exciting discovery of a rare example of a medieval shipwreck in English waters.…
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WHO came to America and WHY? Ancient DNA may hold the answers
DNA increasingly shows up in our public and private lives. Researchers use DNA to advance medical treatments. Ancient DNA (aDNA) studies trace human migrations and interactions in the distant past.…
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‘Down pythons’ throats we thrust live goats’: snakes, zoos and animal welfare in nineteenth-century Britain
In September 1902, as he was passing the Reptile House at London Zoo, T.W. Hitchmough was approached by a ‘small goat of friendly disposition’, which came running up to the wire fencing of its enclosure, eager to be ‘petted’.…
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Introducing the New Editors of Central European History
We are honored and eager to try to fill Monica Black’s big shoes as co-editors of Central European History, the official publication of the Central European History Society. …
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Peggy Piggott and post-war British archaeology
In the 2021 Netflix film The Dig, Peggy Piggott was portrayed as a young woman of moderate skill, very much stumbling into archaeology.…
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Surviving the Apocalypse: Catastrophe Archaeology in Japan
In June this year, CALDERA, the new Nordic-Japan research programme on “Catastrophe Archaeology” was awarded Antiquity’s Ben Cullen Prize 2024 for its opening pilot-study of human responses to the Holocene’s largest ever volcanic eruption.…
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Introduction to the Special Issue on Global Musical Modernisms
"The current issue of the Twentieth-Century Music focuses on 'Global Musical Modernisms.' We asked contributors to talk a little more about the questions it asks and the stakes of this project."
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Cartographies of Movement
Inspired by the DSA conference call for papers “Cartographies of Movement,” this digital collection showcases Dance Research Journal articles that engage with kinesthetic and epistemological sites of indigeneity. The three subdivisions narrate the general movement of peoples and ideas at sites of origin, across countries, and beyond geographic or imagined borders. Each article in the “Rooted in Indigeneity'' section addresses performance as a means of grounding specific Indigenous cultural beliefs.
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Unraveling the Legacy of Indigenous and European Peoples Using Dogs from Jamestown
Dogs were one of the many animal companions that accompanied English settlers to Jamestown, Colony, Virginia, in the year 1607. In fact, one of the first recorded deaths at Jamestown was not a person but a dog, falling victim to a confrontation between the English and Virginia Indians days after the colony’s establishment.…
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Origins of medieval coinage revealed
If you were living in north-west Europe in the late 7th century, you would have experienced something that your parents, grandparents, and more distant ancestors had not: coinage.…
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Introducing Early Medieval England and its Neighbours
The publishing of Anglo-Saxon England (ASE) is a source of pride for Cambridge University Press. The recent fiftieth anniversary of the journal provided a compelling moment to celebrate all that it has achieved, and assess its position within a field that has continued to flourish, grow and evolve.…
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Interpretive battlegrounds: Melancholy, spiritual experience, and dissent in early modern England
In a spiritual narrative published in 1672, Charles Langford lamented that some would deem his descriptions of visions and temptations “as meer Fictions, and the issue of a melancholly brain.”[1]…
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The Tricontinental Revolution, in Europe? When Che Guevara, Ho Chi Minh and Amilcar Cabral lit the flame in the European Continent
The decade of the long 1960s was shaped by major global transformations. The wave of revolution that swept the continents of Africa, Asia and Latin America from the late ‘60s onwards went hand in hand with the winds of change sweeping Europe. Student protests, incessant unrest, violence and terrorism dominated the front pages during these years in countries such as France, Italy, Germany and Spain, where the processes taking place in the Global South seemed to resound like distant echoes far removed from the effervescent European reality.
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Natalie Zemon Davis under investigation: writing history under political persecution
“The full Historical Journal article on which this blog is based is currently not yet published but will be out soon!…
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Ancient Maya Inequality – Compact Section
How unequal were ancient Maya societies and what lessons can we learn from them about our own unequal world? Modern inequality metrics often focus on monetary wealth and financial statements, but other methods exist and inequality can manifest itself in multiple forms.…
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Sleep No More and the Discourses of Shakespeare Performance
I had already seen Sleep No More eleven times before I saw the beginning of Sleep No More. That’s not the sort of admission you’d expect from a theatre scholar who has actually written a book about a particular performance.…
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Mills, Money, and Morality: Entrepreneurial Philanthropy under a Spatial Microscope
Walking through the mill yard at Quarry Bank mill, on a dull December day, I noticed the bell tower high above.
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From the Author; Astrobiology and the Christian Doctrine with Revd Prof Andrew Davison
The Revd Prof Andrew Davison is the Starbridge Professor of Theology and Natural Science, holding the professorship endowed by the novelist Susan Howatch.…
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From the Author: Lifescapes, with Professor Jeremy Burchardt
Jeremy Burchardt is Associate Professor in Rural History at the University of Reading. He is Principal Investigator of the Arts & Humanities Research Council research network ‘Changing Landscapes, Changing Lives’.…
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From the Author: Visualizing Race Virtually with Dr. David Sterling Brown
Dr. David Sterling Brown is an award-winning author and a tenured Associate Professor of English at Trinity College, Connecticut. His book, Shakespeare’s White Others, published by Cambridge University Press, examines the racially white ‘others’ whom Shakespeare portrays in characters like Richard III, Hamlet and Tamora – figures who are never quite ‘white enough’.…
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Unlocking Literacy on World Book Day
Frederick Douglass said: “Once you learn to read you will be free.” On this World Book Day (7 March, 2024) Cambridge hopes to help spark that enquiry.…
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Archaeological Repositories are Places to Train Future Archaeologists
As holders and curators of artifacts and their associated documentation and data, archaeological repositories are a place to learn about past and current excavation strategies, and an excellent training ground for future archaeologists.…
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Still Exhausted
As 2024 begins, AI feels simultaneously inescapable and invisible. Newspaper editorials, Davos panels, and countless advertisements tout the epochal event that is “AI.”…
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How Chinese migrants in Los Angeles Chinatown gained self-reliance
In the late 1800s and early 1900s, anti-Chinese sentiment in the United States was high, as working-class laborers in the country viewed Chinese workers as a threat.…
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Multimedia at Minoan Myrtos–Pyrgos, Crete
It is rare in the scholarship of Bronze Age Crete, during a period as old as the third and second millennia BCE, to present an inclusive account and analysis of all the seals, seal impressions and sealing practices, together with tablets and inscriptions in Linear A, from the whole life of a settlement.
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Beyond Appearances: A Comparison Between the French and Italian Fashion Industries.
In this article, we’ll take a closer look at how the prêt-à-porter industry in France and the ready-to-wear industry in Italy evolved from their beginnings to their growth stages during the 20th century.…
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Ancient saddle and stirrup discoveries highlight the impact of Mongolian steppe cultures in innovation of riding technology
If you’ve gotten on a horse in the 21st (or even 20th) century, your experience probably went something like this: you placed one foot in a stirrup, heaving yourself into a large, rigid saddle that helped secure your seat.…
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Teaching with Advances in Archaeological Practice
Advances has been one of my favorite journals since the first issue appeared in my email inbox a little over 10 years ago.…
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William Petty’s survey of Ireland and the role of natural history in the development of statistics
William Petty (1623-1687) is well known as a pioneer of political economy and statistics. He has been often celebrated as an ingenious thinker who was among the first to grasp that certain information, like data on different categories of landowners or the number of births and deaths, could be used to describe trends and tendencies occurring on the level of what he called the ‘political body’ – or what we would nowadays call ‘population phenomena’.…
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Greyhounds of Late Iron Age Sweden
In Late Iron Age Scandinavia, roughly 500-1100 CE, increasing numbers of people started going to the grave with animal companions. As a general rule, the higher a person’s station in society, the more animals they were likely to take with them, and in a higher diversity of species.…
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What Does Performance Theory Take from Sociology?
We usually narrate the origin of performance studies by foregrounding idiosyncratic mid-20th-century thinkers—Erving Goffman, Kenneth Burke, and J.L. Austin, among others—who in different ways refurbished the old idea of the theatrum mundi.…
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At the crossroads of history and digital humanities
A common narrative around digital humanities paints it as a realm of ease where pressing a button magically generates statistical insights but does not contribute to serious scholarship.…
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Archaeogaming in Advances in Archaeological Practice
“Archaeogaming” occupies the intersection between archaeology and video games and treats these examples of contemporary material culture as artifacts, sites, and landscapes (Reinhard 2018).…
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