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A Life in Balkan Archaeology (Paperback)
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A Life in Balkan Archaeology (Paperback)
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This memoir is not really about research questions or main
conclusions. It tells the story of a boy growing up in Plymouth,
Devon, getting excited about archaeology after visits to mainland
Greece and Crete, trying to get into Greek archaeology and
re-locating northwards into the Balkans, where he spent a career in
prehistoric research. The chapters alternate between
museum/university experiences and my major research projects. The
experiences of working in that part of the world as the Third
Balkan War was starting were dramatic and a history-style chapter
is devoted to these beginnings. The Balkan prehistoric club in the
west is a very small and select group so there is an intrinsic
interest about how westerners did their archaeology there and how
they interacted with local colleagues. There is also a sense of a
'colonial relationship' between westerners knowledgeable about
theory and method, with well-stocked libraries and large research
grants and easterners with little of the above. On a basic level,
the memoir presents stories with implications for east - west
relationships that will soon disappear from living memory. The ways
that research projects originated and developed are strongly
featured and there is a fund of anecdotes about prehistorians
living and dead. The publication of this memoir records those
fragments of the discipline's history that are in danger of being
lost forever. But my life story is not erased from this account,
which is not an anthropological work but, rather, a participant
account with a modicum of relevant personal details. The book
providing the archaeological results is the publication Forging
identities in the prehistory of Old Europe. Dividuals, individuals
and communities 7000-3000 BC - a synthesis of academic research in
Balkan prehistory. This memoir provides the insider story to the
research results.
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