EAZ – Ethnographisch-Archaeologische Zeitschrift

🌍✊📚#EAZArchive: EAZ 16 (4) 1975
Using Tanganyika as a case study, this article examines the role of unions in the liberation movements. doi.org/10.54799/EQK...
#Africa #History #Research #Decolonization #Archaeology #EAZ

🏺🤝🌍#EAZArchive
Can we use historically documented cultural encounters to better interpret ancient events only evident through archaeological material?
doi.org/10.54799/BOU...
#Archaeology #Ethnoarchaeology #AncientHistory #Research #EAZ

Professor Simone Pollo during his talk ‘Cats, the City and Not-Just-Human Democracy’ at the Council of National Research (CNR), 19 November 2025. Photo: G. Calandra.

🐈📄 #EAZ 60 (1): New publication
From Bastet to Hello Kitty: In this conference report, B. Mecozzi recapitulates new insights into human–cat relationships from #archaeology, #genetics and #culturalstudies discussed at the meeting in Rome, Nov 2025
doi.org/10.54799/RCK...
#cats #research #anthropology

📚🗂️⏳EAZ 17 (1), 1976, is now available in our digital archive!
The issue covers the evolution of early Homo, hunting behaviours in the Lower #Palaeolithic and research on the Vedic Soma sacrifice.
www.eaz-journal.org/index.php/ea...
#archaeology #ethnography #anthropology #research #StoneAge #eaz

🗺️ #EAZArchive
This article by F. Wiedemann from EAZ 51 (1/2) explores how early archaeologists tried to map migrations, describing the methods and assumptions behind ethno-historical cartographies.
doi.org/10.54799/HAO...
#NearEast #Cartography #Research #History #Archaeology #EAZ

📕📢New publication!
We start the new issue with the review of B. Meier's "Die Kelten" (2024). H. Wendling addresses the problematic use of "Celts" as an ethnic category and the mixing of language, material culture, genetics, and identity.
doi.org/10.54799/ACH...
#Celts #IronAge #Archaeology #Research

Photo: B. Alberti. Design: P. Horstmann. CC BY 4.0

Photo: B. Alberti. CC BY 4.0

Photo: B. Alberti. Design: P. Horstmann. CC BY 4.0

Photo: A. T. Santos. CC BY 4.0

🔃📄 #EAZ 59 (2) has now been published!📣
This special issue, 'An Ontological Turn for Archaeology?' (G. Di Maida/ M. Porr, eds.) focuses on the recent call to revise the ontological foundations of #anthropology and #archaeology
www.eaz-journal.org/index.php/ea...
#research #heritage #Indigenous

EAZ 59 (1) cover. Photo: A. Azizi.

EAZ 59 (1) cover. Photo: A. Azizi.

Photo: A. Azizi.

Photo: O.P. Singh.

📚 #EAZ 59 (1) is now available online 📢
The issue focuses on collaborative archaeologies and ethnoarchaeological practice and includes case studies from #Canada, #India and #Morocco
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#archaeology #anthropology #ethnography #research #heritage #Indigenous

Discourses on Modernity @ Sidestone Press This collection provides interdisciplinary discussions of the impact of the heritage of modernity in archaeology and related disciplines from a theoretical and philosophical point of view. The ways th...

📚#EAZRecommends📢
Recent collection “Discourses on Modernity” (Eds. V.P.J. Arponen, A. Ribeiro, K. Ott | 2025 | SidestonePress) explores how the legacy of modernity still shapes the way #archaeology thinks and works.
#Research #Anthropology
doi.org/10.59641/gg1...

📜🎓🍖 #EAZ-Archive
Review of a major dissertation publication on food offerings in Hallstatt-period graves – a topic central to #IronAge funerary #archaeology.
#Hallstatt #Research
doi.org/10.54799/NPI...

Universität Tübingen gibt kunstvoll geschnitztes Ahnenbild an Māori-Gemeinschaft in Neuseeland zurück. Britischer Seefahrer James Cook hatte Pou der Hinematioro vor 250 Jahren nach Europa gebracht uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet/… #KolonialesErbe #Neuseland #Maori #Ethnologie @mwk-bw.bsky.social

Photo: Schlegel. Herzog, J. 1975. Ethnically Based Anti-Colonial Protest Movements and Problems of Establishing a United National Liberation Front in Tanganyika from the 1920ies to 1961. EAZ 16 (4).

📷🌳 Snapshot from the past:
Members of the TANU Youth League cultivating inhospitable grass and scrubland.
Photo is taken from Herzog, J. 1975. "Ethnically Based Anti-Colonial Protest Movements..." #EAZ 16 (4): 593-623. doi.org/10.54799/EQK...
#FieldworkPhoto #Archaeology #History

Stone tools from the cave Dam-Dam-cesme 2. Figure: G. Markov.

📜⛰️ #EAZ-Archive
One of the earliest systematic #excavations and full stratigraphic publications of a #prehistoric cave site in West Turkmenistan.
Markov, G.E. 1966. Dam-Dam-češme 2. EAZ 7 (1): 1‐18
#StoneAge #Archaeology #EAZ #CentralAsia
doi.org/10.54799/ACO...

This type of pottery is typical of the first farmers in Central and Northern Europe. To this day, the term ‘Funnel Beaker Culture’ is commonly used to describe these communities, although the term ‘culture’ is controversial in archaeology. - Copyright Uni Kiel

Has culture become obsolete as an archaeological concept?
A philosophical-archaeological study explores the meaning of a controversial term and links it to current debates....
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💡📢New publication!
The editorial for the special issue of #EAZ 59(2) addresses the issue of 'turns' in #archaeology as trends, inviting critical discussion on whether they are passing fads or productive shifts in archaeological #theory
doi.org/10.54799/YTR...
#anthropology #research #ontology

🤝📢New publication!
Introduction to #EAZ 59 (1) summarizes the studies published in the issue and explores why responsible archaeological #research today can't be imagined without ethnoarchaeological practice and #collaboration
doi.org/10.54799/NKV...
#archaeology #anthropology #heritage

Penascosa 5. Photo: A. T. Santos. CC BY 4.0

🧩📢New publication! #EAZ 59 (2)
A.T. Santos advances current debates around Upper #Palaeolithic #rockart by shifting the focus from imagery alone to the social appropriation of space, integrating landscape, spatial practice, ontology.
doi.org/10.54799/OAK...
#archaeology #anthropology #art #heritage

📣 #EAA2026 | #CfP🏺
Session 75 "Reviving the present past: Current perspectives on ethnoarchaeology" explores how #ethnoarchaeology can help us move beyond culturally shaped assumptions in #archaeological interpretation.
📆 Submission deadline: 05 Feb 2026
📌 Registration: www.e-a-a.org/eaa2026

⌛📄 We're starting 2026 by sharing our most-read articles last year for you to revisit or learn about:
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#eaz #archaeology #anthropology #history #ethnoarchaeology

📸A snapshot from the past – a vessel from Altgrieben, Slavic riverside settlement from the 7th–10th centuries CE. Photo: H. A. Knorr.
Knorr, Heinz A. 1975. “Altgrieben”. #EAZ – Ethnographisch-Archaeologische Zeitschrift 16 (3):387-407. doi.org/10.54799/TSR...
#FieldworkPhoto #Archaeology #Ceramics

Photo: Taschen.

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#EAZ 59 (1) now also features an annotation on the 2025 #Taschen re-edition of E.S. Curtis’s The #NorthAmericanIndian, with the focus on the regional and thematic focus, portrait style and the editorial and material qualities of the new edition
doi.org/10.54799/YMP...
#anthropology #photography

Several raised slab graves in a courtyard. Photo: O. P. Singh.

🪨 🤝📢 New publication announcement!
In the latest contribution to #EAZ 59 (1), O. P. Singh explores how communities of Northeast #India build meaning and solidarity through #megalith construction.
doi.org/10.54799/OOH...
#archaeology #anthropology #ethnoarchaeology #Indigenous #heritage

Sustainability The term ‘sustainability’, as used in policy and common contemporary parlance, has a very European heritage, but its meanings and implications defy easy definition. While perhaps most famously the…

this week is dedicated to sharing beautiful, insightful, challenging OEA quotes.
"...allowing anthropology to insistently ask: whose ‘sustainability’ gets to count on the global stage? And what, exactly, is being sustained?" by Alice Rudge, found here: www.anthroencyclopedia.com/entry/sustai...

📆This is a reminder of the extended deadline for submissions to our special issue, 'Tool or Pitfall' (see details in the post below):

📜 #EAZ-Archive:
Vol. 16, 4 (1975) is now available in our digital archive! Contribution varied from the history of #anti-colonial protest movement in #Tanganyika to studies on #feudalism and conception of the world in #ancient #China
#History #Archaeology
www.eaz-journal.org/index.php/ea...

Informative poster on a pedestal sign displayed in the Parque Nacional de Tierra del Fuego. Photo: A. Butto. CC BY 4.0

🤝📢 New publication announcement!
EAZ 59 (3) starts with a contribution on collaborative #archaeology in #TierraDelFuego: an archaeological team and co-authors from #Fuegian Communities share the results of years of work and mutual learning
doi.org/10.54799/JUV...
#anthropology #Indigenous #heritage

📜 #EAZ-archives: This paper is devoted to an analysis of C. Schuchhardt’s "Alteuropa," focusing on the narrative style of archaeological synthesis
#History #Archaeology #EAZ
Eggert, M.K.H. 2010. „Carl Schuchhardt (1858-1943): Ein Rückblick Auf Alteuropa“. EAZ 51 (1/2) doi.org/10.54799/JLJ...

🦌📢New publication announcement!
In the latest addition to EAZ 59 (2), S.T. Hussain examines how deeply embedded Western assumptions shape the study of human–animal relations and argues for encountering the #deeppast on its own terms.
doi.org/10.54799/ILV...
#zooarchaeology #archaeology #StoneAge

CATS - Past & present First Announcement and Call for Papers The ltalian Association for Ethnoarchaeology (AIE) is pleased to announce the 1st INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCECATS - PAST AND PRESENT An interdisciplinary perspectiv...

🐈📢 #EAZRecommends
19–21 November: Starting tomorrow, explore the world of #cats from multiple perspectives at the “CATS – Past & Present” conference in Rome (hybrid).
The programme & free online participation link here:
www.ethnoarchaeology.net/index.php/pr...
#conference #anthropology #archaeology

📢New publication announcement for #EAZ 59 (1)! B.M. Sichert and colleagues link observations of a living #marketplace in #Morocco with the archaeological record and provide methods and reference data for detecting market activities in the past.
doi.org/10.54799/ZWA...
Photo: A. Azizi. CC BY 4.0