Anthropologist with interests in cultural evolution, phylogenetics, classical methods, weaving. Interface of archaeology and ethnography. Author of "Stone and Fiber: Daily life in the Baliem valley, Papua".
Chris Buckley
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Been reading this ... it's very good www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...
V&A East Storehouse. Well worth a visit. Some views are a modern version of Piranesi’s “Carceri”
If you missed our talk on cross-cultural insights into alcoholic beverages, given by @vaclavhrncir.bsky.social, it’s now available to watch on our YouTube!
Watch it here: youtu.be/o_TFqV6H88c?...
In ye olden days scholars were more, er, forthright on each other’s works. This is Soame Jenyns on Edward Morse’s book on Japanese pottery
Chris Buckley
Chris Buckley
Chris Buckley
Chris Buckley
... and this is a review of the catalog of the collection www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Jos VanBeurden (Restitutionmatters.org) on "Stone and Fiber" and the project to return the Hampton Archive of Baliem valley material to Papua restitutionmatters.org/publication/...
A recording of a recent talk on a unique, well-documented single-culture collection from highland Papua, and our efforts to conserve, document, and repatriate it. The collection is now on a ship, bound for Papua, where it will become the core of a new museum www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2h2...
Human history upended AGAIN www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
Archaeology has a long relationship with ethnographic objects housed in museums. These institutional collections are often obtained from private collectors through donation or sale. As with museum ...
For decades, scientists believed ancient humans avoided dense rainforests, treating them as nearly impossible environments for early survival. But a groundbreaking discovery in West Africa is rewritin...
