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Ethnoarchaeology, a cross-cultural peer-reviewed journal, will focus on the present position, impact of, and future prospects of ethnoarchaeological and experimental studies approach to research. The primary goal of this journal is to provide practitioners with an intellectual platform in which we may showcase and appraise current research as well as foreground theoretical and methodological directions for the 21st century.
One need that Ethnoarchaeology addresses is that there is little that unifies or defines our subdiscipline, although there has been an exponential increase in ethnoarchaeological and experimental research in the past thirty years. With such growth we must explore what distinguishes these approaches as a subdiscipline, what methods connect practitioners, and what unique suite of research attributes we contribute to the better understanding of the human condition.
The journal should be of interest to archaeologists, other anthropologists, historians, and and specialists in pre-modern technologies. In addition to research articles, the journal will contain book and other media reviews, periodic theme issues, and position statements by noted scholars.
Articles
Ethnoarchaeology beyond correlates
Jerimy J. Cunningham
How I built my house: An ethnoarchaeological study of gendered technical practice in Tigray Region, Highland Ethiopia
Diane E. Lyons
The mechanical properties of marine and terrestrial skeletal materials with implications for the organization of forager technologies
Amy V. Margaris
Hunting with talc? Experiments into the functionality of certain Late Neolithic ground projectile points from the site of Liangchengzhen, Peoples Republic of China
Geoffrey Cunnar, William Schindler, Anne Underhill, Fengshi Luan, and Hui Fang
Media Review
Silliman, Stephen. 2008. Collaborating at the Trowel’s Edge: Teaching and Learning in Indigenous Archaeology. University of Arizona Press, Tucson. Reviewed by Emily Lena Jones (Utah State University).
Belkin, Tara, Steven Brandt, and Kathryn Weedman. 2006. Woman the toolmaker: Hideworking and stone tool use in Konso, Ethiopia. Left Coast Press, Walnut Creek. DVD, 27 minutes. Reviewed by John C. Whittaker (Grinnell College).
Liam Frink is an Assistant Professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Kathryn Weedman Arthur is an Assistant Professor at the University of South Florida, St. Petersburg.
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