Lynn Meskell, ed., 'Cosmopolitan Archaeologies'

Session title: ISLAND ARCHAEOLOGIES: THEMES AND CHALLENGES Organizers: Part 1: Island Archaeologies

Island Archaeology is a fascinating yet often under-represented aspect of archaeological investigation. Nonetheless, the last decade has brought islands into focus as a promising field for the development of archaeological theory and method. A key strength of the island approach is that it encourages productive comparisons between data and models derived from different geographical areas and pe...

Lynn Margulis, 1938-2011.

O n November 22, 2011, Lynn Margulis, visionary biologist and tireless champion of the microbial world, died of a massive stroke. Born in 1938, Lynn was intellectually precocious, earning her bachelor’s degree from the University of Chicago at age 18 and a Berkeley PhD 6 years later. Lynn’s enduring place in science was earned soon thereafter, with the publication of her theory of endosymbiosis...

Lynn Margulis (1938–2011)

of the nitrogen cycling has major consequences for other biogeochemical processes and ecosystem functions and services, Voss says. Recent research has uncovered an apparent imbalance in the nitrogen budget of the oceans, which isn’t completely understood yet and may point to additional processes that remain to be discovered. The traditional view that bacterial denitrification is the only signif...

Steven Jay Lynn , SUNY Binghamton

Archaeo-ethnography, auto-archaeology: Introducing archaeologies of the contemporary past

Abstract After significant research effort and publications over the course of a decade, a new generation of writings and research into archaeologies of the contemporary past is beginning to emerge, with a social and political awareness that appears more acute and more focused than before. Perhaps it is not too much of an exaggeration to say that this new generation of contemporary archaeologie...