Humanities and Social Sciences

Histories of Archaeology Research Network

Announcing an exciting new interuniversity and interdisciplinary postgraduate and postdoctoral research initiative dedicated to the unravelling archaeology’s past and practice. The Histories of Archaeology Research Network, HARN, will provide an overarching, cross-institutional structure to promote communication and thereby support innovative new work. This young collective will untangle the histories and philosophies of archaeology and reconstruct the lesser-known social, political and intellectual aspects of archaeology’s history.
New members and all queries are welcomed. For more information please email:HARNgroup@googlemail.com or visit HARN's blog where anyone interested in the history of archaeology can post announcements or comments or initiate discussion.

La Tène project - Call for information

Funded by the Swiss National Foundation, this project (SNF # 100012-113845) aims at an exhaustive re-evaluation of the documentary corpus of the eponymous site for the European Second Iron Age at La Tène (Lake Neuchâtel, Switzerland). As a matter of fact, the celebrity of this emblematic site and the current practices of exchange in the 19th century led to a considerable dispersion of the archaeological material, as well as the pertaining documentation (drawings, photographs, etc.). Under those circumstances and in order to achieve the goals of this study, we are now looking for all possible information in various museums and archaeological institutions, in Europe and on the American and Australian Continents. In a second step, we shall analyze the role of the finds represented in La Tène, in the context of Celtic Europe of the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC.

This will provide the necessary basis to a reinterpretation of La Tène and its function. Actually, the project answers to a reiterated request from all specialists of Celtic archaeology, opening the doors to futures studies. All colleagues ready to contribute to the constitution of the database will be given access to it.

The project began in 2007, which was the year of the 150th anniversary of the discovery of the site,  and has already given rise to numerous collaborations with Museums owning La Tène collections, in Europe and United States. We are also looking forward to information exchange with Australian institutions.

Please send any information to : Gianna.Reginelli@ne.ch