The Long Game of U.S. Historiography: A Century of Competing Interpretations
Today at The Junto, we share a programme from our friends at...
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Interview with David Doddington, Author of Contesting Slave Masculinity
David Doddington is a Senior Lecturer in North American History at Cardiff University. His research interests centre on slavery, race, and gender in the antebellum South, with a particular interest in examining resistance, survival, and solidarity within slave communities.
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Published
My article on the Tudor soundscape we produced at The Vyne a couple of years back has been published in Curator, the Museums Journal. Abstract, and whole article if your or your institution subscribes, here. Much thanks to my co-authors!
The post Published appeared first on Archaeology Blogs.
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Mobile devices in heritage, why not?
Ages ago I surveyed people about mobile gaming and heritage. The results were not encouraging for my thesis, because interest in mobile gaming seemed low. Just under 200 people completed the survey, and most of them had at least heard of Minecraft (just 5% had not). But when asked about the most popular location-based game at the time, Ingress, the vast majority, 178 people (81.3%) hadn’t even heard of it.
Since then of course Pokemon Go happened.
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Music and sound on (and off) screen
It seems a long time since I visited the books on screen sound, but my exciting new second supervisor Beth said I should check out one of the foundation texts. This is Michel Chion’s Audio-vision: Sound on Screen. The first thing that grabs my attention is his pointing out that while “the image” in cinema is framed by the edges of the screen.
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Finn Cresswell: MA Student placement at Salisbury
I am an Integrated Masters student at the University of Southampton, specialising in the role of social media and public engagement in shaping contemporary archaeology. Having a background in drama and screen media from the age of 12, and maintaining a constant interest in archaeology and heritage throughout my life, I am passionate about telling the story of archaeology from initial survey through to post-excavation.
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Earliest cave paintings were made by Neanderthals, Southampton scientists discover
Scientists have found the first major evidence that Neanderthals made cave paintings, indicating they may have had an artistic sense similar to our own.
A new study led by the University of Southampton and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology shows that paintings in three caves in Spain were created more than 64,000 years ago – 20,000 years before modern humans arrived in Europe.
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Our Avebury Excavation features on BBC Digging for Britain
Tonight our summer excavation at the foot of Avebury Down features on the BBC’s Digging for Britain (Wed 22nd Nov, 9pm BBC4). The Excavation is part of the Living with Monuments research project run by the Universities of Southampton, Leicester, Cambridge and Ghent with Allen Environmental Archaeology and the National Trust.
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CLLEAR seminar Friday 6th October: Prof Tania Ionin
Please join us for the next Centre for Linguistics, Language Education and Acquisition Research (CLLEAR) seminar.
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