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Who Inhabits the Federal Judiciary? Sociopolitical Origins and Professional Trajectories of the Judicial Elite
This chapter delves into the world of judges through the description of their sociopolitical origins. How has the judicial family been constructed?...
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Female Presence in Maritime Settings–Trade and Warfare
Traditionally, the maritime networks controlling long-distance trade in metals and other commodities during the European Bronze Age have been...
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Organizing Principles in Early Bronze Age Copper Manufacturing
Metals played an important role in the maintenance of elite structures as an item of “wealth finance” in ancient societies. The affordance structure...
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A Social Archaeometallurgy of Bronze Age Cyprus
As a major producer of copper throughout the Bronze Age (ca. 2400–1100 BC), the island of Cyprus assumed a key role in the social and economic...
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Butchering Patterns and Technology in a Chalcolithic Settlement: Analysis of the Butchered Fauna from Shiqmim, Israel
This paper presents the analysis of the butchered animal bones recovered from the Chalcolithic site of Shiqmim, excavated by Thomas E. Levy in...
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The History of Mount Shamrock: Four Miles from Degilbo Head Station
Here an historical account of the community of Mount Shamrock and the men, women and children who lived there is presented, beginning in the 1880s...
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Early Balkan Metallurgy: Origins, Evolution and Society, 6200–3700 BC
This paper analyses and re-evaluates current explanations and interpretations of the origins, development and societal context of metallurgy in the...
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Wonderful Workmanship Excelling Nature
A large number of relics have been unearthed in the tombs and other remains at the Erlitou site, and among them, the aristocratic utensils mainly...
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Indian Glass Beads in Western and North Europe in Early Middle Age
In recent years, chemical analyses of glass beads excavated from late Antique and Early Middle Age sites in western and north-western Europe (France,...
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Chemical composition of Gariss produced from milk of camels with different watering intervals using some traditional containers in Al-Koma Locality, North Darfur State, Sudan
BackgroundThe nomadic camels herders utilizing the extensive production system in Sudan depend mainly on fermented milk, locally known as Gariss , as...
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The Organisation and Practice of Metal Smithing in Later Bronze Age Europe
During the later Bronze Age in Europe (c. 1500–800 BC), the archaeological visibility of the production and consumption of bronze increases...
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Building from the Ground Up: The Archaeology of Residential Spaces and Communities in Southeast Asia
Despite the ethnographic importance of the Southeast Asian house and household, an explicitly Southeast Asian “household archaeology” is still in its...
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Post-truthism: An Era or an Intellectual Strategy?
The POTUS-45 era in the United States gave us the latest and most virulent forms of alternative facts, and distrust of science and the media....
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Moving from Collaboration to Co-production in International Research
In her recent article, Bender offers a timely reflection on research-practice collaborations (RPCs). In this commentary, we expand on Bender’s main...
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Exploring the Multi-faceted Nature of Wellbeing Across Genders: Evaluating the Antecedence of Psychological Capital and Life Satisfaction
The paper examines the relationship between psychological capital and well-being; besides evaluating the effect of Life satisfaction as a mediator,...
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Inside a Scientific Laboratory: An Ethnography of Scientific Practice
This chapter reports the findings of an ethnography of a colloid chemistry laboratory. This study by philosopher Michael Zenzen and the author was...
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In the Intersection of Climate Risk and Social Vulnerabilities: a Case of Poor Urbanites in Lusaka, Zambia
The urban poor in cities of develo** countries tend to be the most affected by climate change. This is because of the intersection of their...
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The Sociology of Objectivity
This chapter is based on a paper the author published in 1974 in which he introduced the idea of a “sociology of objectivity.” There is an aura of...