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ISSUES 1 - 9

 

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Issue 9: June 2006 Current Issue!
Cumberpatch BA PhD on 'Face to face with medieval pottery', James Cole on 'Consuming Passions: Reviewing the Evidence for Cannibalism within the Prehistoric Archaeological Record' and Parth R. Chauhan on 'Human origins studies in India: position, problems and prospects'. 2 opinion pieces: Umberto Albarella on 'The ragged trousered corporatists' and Kevin L. Kuykendall on 'Taking an Evolutionary View of Life'. Interview with Phil Parkin about The Great Sheffield Flood
Plus lots of book reviews!

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Issue 8: December 2004
Damgaard and Blake on the Islamic Jarash Project, Graves on 'Pre-Medieval Landscapes in Medieval Court Romance', Chauhan on the Early Acheulian evidence in South Asia, Evert and Singer on 'Modelling erosion and Archaeolocial Potential using GIS'. 2 opinion pieces: Buckland offering a critique of a confusion of freedom with aesthetics, reflecting Aegean archaeology's domination by its ceramics in 'A Parthian Shot - Uhuru?'; and May bringing us to the central point of a tomb at Fourknocks, Co. Meath, in order to raise fundamental questions of reflexivity and personal history in 'What Future for studying the past?'.
Plus lots of book reviews!

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Issue 7: May 2003
Thomas on 'Wells as Signatures of Social Change', Cessford on 'Microartifactual floor patterning: the case at Çatalhöyük', Cumberpatch on 'The Origins of the Post-medieval Ceramic Tradition in Yorkshire'. Chauhan on lithic technology in India in 'An Overview of the Siwalik Acheulian & Reconsidering Its Chronological Relationship with the Soanian - A Theoretical Perspective'.
Plus lots of book reviews!

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Issue 6: August 2001
Cessford on CLAY PIPES AND THE STUDY OF SMOKING, Cumberpatch on 'POWER OF PLACE' and EMBEDDED/DISEMBEDDED ECONOMIES, Kelly-Blazeby on TAVERNAS IN ANCIENT GREECE, Hamilakis, Pluciennik and Tarlow on ACADEMIC PERFORMANCES, ARTISTIC PRESENTATIONS, Webster on PHENOMENOLOGY AND 'NATURAL ATTITUDE' with a reply by Julian Thomas, Corcos on CHURCHES IN THE PRE-HISTORIC LANDSCAPE.
Plus lots of book reviews!

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Issue 5: April 2000
Buckberry on ANGLO-SAXON JUVENILE BURIALS; Chamberlain on ORIGIN OF HUMAN AESTHETIC PREFERENCES & Cumberpatch on FETISHISM IN ARCHAEOLOGY; Hamilton on the USE OF PRIMARY SOURCES IN ARCHAEOLOGY; Hicks on the ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE; Turner on PUBLIC ASSEMBLY IN THE DANELAW; Interview with Alison Wylie; Archaeology in the 20th Century; Exciting new developments in 'State of the Arch' and more fun and games 

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Issue 4: October 1998
Hind on MESOLITHIC CHERT IN NORTH ENGLAND; Thorpe on CONTEXT FORMATION & TRANSFORMATION IN BEIRUT; Van Leusen on ARCHAIC AND EARLY ROMAN LAZIO; Hutson on REPRODUCING PRESTIGE IN ARCHAEOLOGICAL DISCOURSE; Turner on ROMANITAS IN THE EAST; Issue 4 discussion: ARCHAEOLOGY OF & FOR THE WORKING CLASS; the role of the contracted field archaeologist; and the politics of the World Archaeological Congress - A WHOLE NEW LOOK & and lots of new fun and games! 

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Issue Three: January 1998
Fewer on WOMEN IN 17TH-CENTURY IRELAND; Robbins on CROP LANDSCAPES & DOMESTIC SPACE; Chadwick on REFLEXIVE EXCAVATION METHODOLOGIES; Millett on VITRUVIUS IN ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECONSTRUCTIONS Notes on post-colonial nautical archaeology & palaeoecology, archaeology and nature conservation; New column 'STATE OF THE ARCH', as well as short articles and humour

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Issue Two: May 1997
Ronayne on IDENTITY POLITICS IN ARCHAEOLOGICAL DISCOURSE; Turek on NEOLITHIC SLANY, CZECH REPUBLIC; Chadwick on SOCIAL ARCHAEOLOGY OF FIELD SYSTEMS; Tarzia on FOLKLORE & ARCHAEOLOGY IN IRELAND; Warren's HYPER-TEXTUAL MESOLITHIC SEASCAPE; Commentary on the polluter-pays principle, open letter to the Radical Archaeological Forum & more ... 

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Issue One: October 1996
Peacock on BIVALVE ANALYSIS IN ARCHAEOLOGY; Hawthorne on CERAMIC ABUNDANCE & DINING HABITS; Evison on COMPUTERIZED FACIAL RECONSTRUCTION; Harrison on ELVIS WORSHIP & IMPERIAL CULT; 
Commentary on the politics of relativism, 'fringe' archaeology, protecting landscapes, the Institute for Field Archaeologists ... plus columns and games pages