Selected Aspects of Archaeology, 1964-1968
| Published date | 01 September 1968 |
| Date | 01 September 1968 |
| Author | C.C. Lamberg-Karlovsky |
| DOI | 10.1177/000271626837900115 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
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SUPPLEMENT
Selected
Aspects
of
Archaeology,
1964-1968
By
C.
C.
LAMBERG-KARLOVSKY*
C.
C.
Lamberg-Karlovsky,
Ph.D.,
Cambridge,
Massachusetts,
is
Assistant
Professor
of
Anthropology
and
Research
Associate
in
Old
World
Archaeology
at
the
Peabody
Museum,
Harvard
University.
He
has
conducted
excavations
in
Jordan
and
Syria,
and
is
presently
the
director
of
an
archaeological
expedition
to
southeastern
Iran
at
the
Neolithic-Bronze
Age
site
of
Tal-i-Yahya.
He
is
a
f requent
contributor
of
f articles
and
reviews
to
academic
journals.
1
R.
H.
Dyson,
Jr.,
"Selected
Aspects
of
Archaeology,
1958-1963,"
THE
ANNALS,
The
American
Academy
of
Political
and
Social
Sciences,
Vol.
351
(January
1964),
pp.
181-
193.
2
Among
these
are:
Azania
(ed.
N.
Chittick,
Oxford
University
Press,
Oxford) ;
Inventaria
Archaeologica
Africana
(ed.
J.
Nenquin,
Ter-
vuren,
Belgium) ;
The
West
African
Archaeo-
logical
Newsletter
(ed.
T.
Shaw,
University
of
Ibadan,
Nigeria).
ONCE
of
the
most
significant
devel-
opments
taking
place
at
the
pres-
ent
time
in
the
discipline
of
archaeology
is
the
gradual
realization
that
the
up-
ward
spiral
of
new
work
and
publica-
tion
is
threatening
to
overwhelm
the
individual’s
ability
to
deal
with
it.&dquo;
1
If
five
years
ago
this
was
an
evident
threat,
today
it
has
become
a
reality.
It
is
obviously
impossible
in
the
limited
space
of
a
short
review
article
to
re-
capitulate
the
recent
advances
in
vari-
ous
methods
or
the
applications
of
new
techniques
to
the
study
of
materials,
or
to
review
the
avalanche
of
substantive
data
recovered
from
field
excavations.
This
review
will
restrict
itself
to
an
emphasis
on
certain
recent
aspects
and
trends
of
archaeology
which
have
characterized
the
five-year
period
from
1964
to
1968.
Emphasis
will
be
placed
on
developments
in
the
Old
World.
It
is
not
within
the
competence
of
this
author
to
deal
with
equal
comprehension
with
substantive
developments
in
New
World
archaeology.
However,
various
important
trends
and
researches
will
be
singled
out.
NEW
PERIODICALS
AND
SERIALS
A
number
of
important
new
journals,
occasional
bulletins,
and
series
have
ap-
peared
within
the
past
few
years.
An
increased
interest
in
the
archaeology
of
Africa
has
resulted
not
only
in
increased
field
excavations
(see
pp.
138-141),
but
in
the
appearance
of
a
number
of
new
periodicals.2
2
Although
there
is
an
in-
creasing
commitment
to
undertaking
salvage
programs
in
archaeology,
it
is
unfortunate
that
firmer
commitments
to
the
preservation
of
archaeological
sites
are
not
always
evident,
resulting
often
in
the
permanent
loss
of
important
in-
formation.
The
results
of
salvage
ar-
*
The
writer
wishes
to
thank
Margaret
Currier,
Librarian,
Peabody
Museum;
Professors
Stephen
Williams
and
Hallam
Movius;
and
Mr.
John
Terrell
and
Miss
Cynthia
Weber
for
bibliographic
assistance.
Professor
Robert
H.
Dyson,
Jr.,
read
the
manuscript,
providing
critical
commentary
and
bibliographic
assistance,
for
which
I
am
most
grateful.
133
chaeology
carried
out
throughout
North
America,
however,
continue
to
be
pub-
lished
in
a
number
of
new
occasional
reports.3
Results
of
the
salvage
pro-
gram
undertaken
in
Nubia,
resulting
from
the
Aswan
Dam
project,
have
been
reported
in
numerous
journals
of
vari-
ous
countries.
It
is
unfortunate
that
the
results
of
this
extensive
salvage
pro-
gram,
in
Egypt
as
well
as
Nubia,*
are
not
being
reported
in
a
special
series
of
publications
devoted
exclusively
to
these
results.
Major
new
publications
include
jour-
nals
of
general
archaeological
interest,4
on
Oceania,5
South
America,6
Pakistan,7
medieval
archaeology,8
and
western
Asia,9
and
an
important
journal
devoted
to
English
summaries
and
translations
of
original
Soviet
anthropological
and
ar-
chaeological
research.l°
Also
of
interest
is
the
appearance
of
two
new
publica-
tions
dealing
with
analytical
techniques
(&dquo;applied
science&dquo;)
and
their
applica-
tion
to
material
remains
recovered
by
the
archaeologist.’’.
A
number
of
important
series
have
been
introduced,
and
continue
to
appear,
over
the
period
under
review.
Of
par-
ticular
importance
is
the
projected
eleven-volume
work,
Handbook
of
Mid-
dle
American
Indians,
of
which
four
volumes
have
already
appeared. 12
For
the
Old
World,
two
new
series
continue
to
publish
well-illustrated
volumes
of
a
general
nature.
One
of
these,
Library
o
f Early
Civilizations,13
presents
general
syntheses
of
wide
geographical
areas,
while
the
other,
New
Aspects
of
Archae-
ology,14
tends
toward
an
emphasis
of
specific
sites
or
archaeological
cultures.
A
third
new
series,
recently
launched,
emphasizes
Studies
in
Archaeological
Method.15
ANALYSIS
OF
FIELD
DATA
Archaeologists
continue
to
strengthen
their
training
programs
in
the
physical
sciences
in
graduate
schools.
Techniques
developed
for
the
analysis
of
material
3
Highway
Archaeological
Report
(ed.
C.
H.
Chapman,
Columbia,
Missouri) ;
Smithsonian
Institution
Publications
in
Salvage
Archaeology
(ed.
W.
W.
Caldwell,
Washington,
D.C.) ;
Texas
Archaeological
Project
(ed.
M.
F.
Jack-
son,
Austin,
Texas.
* See
footnotes
65
and
66.
4
Archeologia
(ed.
J.
Lacroix,
49
D’Iena,
Paris,
France) ;
Current
Archaeology
(ed.
A.
Selkirk,
128
Bamsbury
Rd.,
London);
World
Archaeology
(Weidenfeld
and
Nicholson,
Lon-
don) ;
Summaries
of
archaeological
articles
appearing
in
British
journals
appear
in
British
Archaeological
Abstracts
(Council
for
British
Archaeology,
St.
Andrews
Place,
London).
5
Archaeology
and
Physical
Anthropology
in
Oceania
(ed.
A.
P.
Elkin,
University
of
Sidney,
Australia).
6
Amerindia
(ed.
P.
Rivet,
Montevideo,
Uru-
guay) ;
Estudios
Arquelogicos
(ed.
E.
R.
Gonzales,
Museo
de
Calama,
Chile).
7
Pakistan
Archaeology
(ed.
F.
A.
Khan,
Department
of
Archaeology,
Karachi,
Paki-
stan).
8
"Monograph
Series,"
The
Society
for
Medieval
Archaeology,
University
College,
Gower
Street,
London.
9
Anatolica:
Annuaire
international
pour
les
civilisations
de
l’Asie
antérieure
(Leiden,
Hol-
land) ;
Mesopotamia:
Rivista
di
archeologia
(University
of
Torino,
Italy).
10
Soviet
Anthropology
and
Archaeology
(ed.
S.
P.
Dunn,
International
Arts
and
Sciences
Press,
108
Grand
Street,
White
Plains,
New
York.
11
Prospezioni
Archeologiche
(ed.
R.
E.
Linington,
Fondazione
Lerici,
Rome);
Ar-
chaeometry
(ed.
J.
Reid,
Oxford
University
Press,
Oxford).
For
the
application
of
several
of
these
techniques,
see
The
Search
for
Syb-
aris,
ed.
F.
G.
Rainey
and
C.
M.
Lerici
(Roma:
Lerici
Editori,
1967).
12
General
editor of
this series
is
R.
Wauchope,
University
of
Texas
Press,
Austin,
Texas.
13
This
series
is
edited
by
S.
Piggott,
McGraw-Hill,
New
York.
The
books
appear-
ing
in
this
series
are
revised
and
expanded
volumes
of
chapters
which
originally
appeared
in S.
Piggott
(ed.),
The
Dawn
of
Civilization
(New
York:
McGraw-Hill,
1961).
Books
on
various
regions
and
periods
of
the
Aegean,
Egypt,
and
Asia
have
already
been
published.
14
Edited
by
Sir
Mortimer
Wheeler,
McGraw-Hill,
New
York.
15
Edited
by
George
and
Louise
Spindler,
Holt,
Rinehart
and
Winston,
New
York.
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