Northumberland UK In the graveyard of Saint Aidan’s church – built in the 13th century. Founded c635.
Author: Michael Shanks
Neanderthals ’sang and danced’
Steve Mithen of Reading University is in the news again about his forthcoming book – another on cognitive archaeology and evolution. The BBC have picked up on his argument about neanderthals, language and symbolic behavior [Link] Prof Mithen thinks the cave- dwellers would have enjoyed the rhythms and sounds made by rap artists. He said:…
The photographs of Edward Burtynsky and the animated museum
The touring exhibition of the wonderful photographs of Edward Burtynsky reaches the Cantor Arts Center today and runs till September 18. Nickel tailings #30 – Sudbury, Ontario Like Gursky, [Link] Burtynsky works in large format – the pictures are up to 5 feet across. His subjects are envrionmental impacts. Great holes in the ground like…
Gary Hill – theater archaeology?
Gary Hill in the Colosseum – part of the Presence Project at Stanford.
Gary Hill’s theatre/archaeology at the Colosseum
Rome Risonanze OscureDark Resonances We are at the Colosseum, the Flavian Amphitheatre – me, Nick (Kaye) and Gabriella (Giannachi). It is 10pm. Across the street beneath the temple of Venus we have been looking at flickering images of what look to me like archaeological sediments projected into the foundation arches, behind the protective iron grills….
Charles Redman on environmental politics
It has taken me too long to get round to reading Charles Redman’s great book Human Impact on Ancient Environments – Arizona, 1999. I came to the book because of the upcoming exhibition at the Cantor Arts Center, Stanford, of the photographs of Edward Burtynsky – they foreground massive environmental impacts. [Link] We need a…