Marek zvelebil biography of martin

Volume III ● Issue 1/2012 ● Pages 3–7 InterdIscIplInarIa archaeologIca natural scIences In archaeology homepage: http://www.iansa.eu III/1/2012 editorial, Iansa 1/2012 Marek Zvelebil and the Identity of archaeology Jaromír Beneš, Malcolm lillie the life and professional career of Marek Zvelebil (1952–2011) unexpectedly came to an end in Shefield one year ago. our journal commented on this sad event immediately in the struktur of an obituary. We made mention of Marek Zvelebil’s important research advances (Beneš, Kuna 2011) as well as certain key events in his life. The scientiic impact of his well-known conceptualisation of the agricultural frontier in the Mesolithic-neolithic transition was also highlighted in another leading czech archaeological journal (Končelová, Květina 2011), where the authors described the fundamental concepts and professional background in his main books and edited volumes. there fryst vatten no doubt that the concept of agr

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Professor Marek Zvelebil (9. 1. 1952 – 7. 7. 2011)

Volume II ● Issue 1/2011 ● Pages 75–76 InterdIscIplInarIa archaeologIca natural scIences In archaeology homepage: http://www.iansa.eu obituary professor Marek Zvelebil (9. 1. 1952 – 7. 7. 2011) Jaromír Beneš, Martin Kuna Marek Zvelebil was born in prague in January 9th, 1952. his father, prof. Kamil Zvelebil, was a well-known linguist who specialized in dravidian languages, and wrote seminal works in the ield including The Smile of Murugan and The Irulas of the Blue Mountains about ancient tamil literature and mythology. Marek’s mother came from the milieu of the russian post-revolution emigrants to czechoslovakia strongly contributed to the intellectual climate of prague. the Zvelebil family left prague shortly after the soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. During their time in the netherlands Marek obtained dutch citizenship, but later continued his studies in the usa and the uK. Marek read his Ba in archaeology at the univ

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“I didn't know you were into that sort of thing?!”: Or Theoretical Confessions of an Environmental Archaeologist

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Benjamin Gearey

University College Cork, Department of Archaeology, Connolly Building, Cork, Ireland. Email: B.Gearey@ucc.ie

Cite this as: Gearey, B. 2019 “I didn't know you were into that sort of thing?!”: Or Theoretical Confessions of an Environmental Archaeologist, Internet Archaeology 53. https://doi.org/10.11141/ia.53.9

Some years back I remember mentioning to a colleague, as I was leaving a certain conference early to head to another one, The Theoretical Archaeology Group Conference (TAG Dublin in fact, which is now, I suppose, more than 'some years' back) to be met with the response: 'I didn't know you were into that sort of thing!?'. Those words stuck with me; they made me laugh, as if I'd admitted to something really very risqué and inappropriate. I'd apparently acquired an interest in 'that