Issue No.2                2 May 1997                ISSN1365-3881

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TABLE OF CONTENTS


Editorial

ABOUT US

Acknowledgements, About the Editors, How to contribute to assemblage

RESEARCH PAPERS

Maggie Ronayne (Southampton) highlights the issues surrounding identity politics in archaeological discourse, Jan Turek (Sheffield) discusses his excavations and interpretation of an intriguing communal burial from Slany in Bohemia and Adrian Chadwick (Sheffield) writes a social archaeology of later prehistoric and Romano-British field systems.

FEATURES

This issue we present you with two experimental features that utilise the flexibility of publishing on the web. Wade Tarzia writes a highly personal account of his visit to Ballinagh, Co.Cavan, Eire and his encounter with its folklore and its archaeology and Graeme Warren offers a non-linear narrative of a Mesolithic seascape.

FORUM

Paul Graves-Brown voices his concerns on the Polluter Pays Principle and its affect on archaeological practice and Michael Tierney writes an open letter to the editor on the Radical Archaeology Forum

WORDS OF WISDOM

Another series of five books are chosen by archaeological authors and academics. This time around, Roberta Gilchrist, Charles Orser and Randy McGuire give us their selection. Mike Parker Pearson contemplates his years at Cambridge with Ian Hodder's class of '79, the birth of post-processualism, life, love and the universe in Recantations, Reflections, Revisions... And we get an insight into the minds of two more archaeologists – often dark and horrible places – and find seaweed, Homer Simpson and sixth-form parties! Phil Freeman and Jane Downes were the objects of our torture this time! Who would YOU like to be next?

NOTES FROM THE FIELD

David Thomas gives us a peek into the world of computing and archaeology in Jordan, Duncan Robertson describes the latest method in examining urns without excavation, Mel Giles appeals for sponsorship on behalf of two archaeology graduates from York who are retracing a medieval pilgrimage route to Spain to raise money for Shelter and Matt Lemke writes on Trowelmania! Dig it or be damned!

REVIEWS

Our wonderful team of reviewers give you the low down on some of the latest books to hit your library shelves, two conferences, a few TV shows and some (vaguely) archaeological computer games (well, it's not ALL work, work, work you know!).We also have an exclusive report by Vicky Cooper who has just come back from being on location with the BBC filming their latest archaeology programme 'Meet the Ancestors'.

THE FUN PAGES

Well, so good last time, they wouldn't go away. The Fun Pages are back with an archaeological pub guide (sort of!), crossword, recipes of food and drink from the larder of time past and MORE anagrams, not to mention Lecture Cricket and Conference Bingo!

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TABLE OF CONTENTSABOUT USRESEARCH PAPERS
FEATURESNOTES FROM THE FIELDREVIEWS
WORDS OF WISDOMFORUMTHE FUN PAGES
ASSEMBLAGE NO.1EMAIL USASSEMBLAGE INFO

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