3520 Readings for Second Part of Term

Readings for Feb 7 / Feb 21: Energy and War: The Material Culture and Heritage of Oil and The Nuclear Age

Oil:

A brief history of the early days of the oil industry in Canada: www.petroleumhistory.ca/history/cdnbeginnings.html

And a few key events in Canada's oil history: www.petroleumhistory.ca/history/wells.html#springs

And the Alberta oil chronology: http://www.petroleumhistory.ca/history/chronologies.html

The End of Cheap Oil: http://www.globaloilwatch.com/reports/Cheap%20Oil.pdf

Material Culture and Archaeology of The Nuclear Age and Atomic Tourism

ATOMIC TOURISM:

Joseph Masco, "5:29:45 am", from Museum Cultures, about tourism at the Trinity site. PDF here (1060 Kb)

The Cold War and the Nuclear Age

n.b. If you know little about the Cold War, I encourage you to review at least the opening paragraph of this article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War

Also: Please review the timeline of the Doomsday Clock (which gives a very brief history of the riskiest moments in the nuclear age): www.thebulletin.org/minutes-to-midnight/timeline.html

A Brief History of the Nuclear Age: www.theglobalist.com/DBWeb/printStoryId.aspx?StoryId=4968

Further (optional) resources on the archaeology of C20 War:

Colleen Beck, “The Archaeology of Scientific Experiments at a Nuclear Testing Ground” (pdf, 1925 Kb)

The Berlin Wall:

            Background: www.die-berliner-mauer.de/en/45.html , www.die-berliner-mauer.de/en/61.html , www.die-berliner-mauer.de/en/63.html, www.die-berliner-mauer.de/en/89.html

Berlin Wall remnants today: www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.de/denkmal/denkmale_in_berlin/en/berliner_mauer/mauer_aufbau.shtml   Explore (follow the links on the left of the page: Building and Development, Wall Traces, etc. )

            Recommended: Dolff-Bonekamper, “The Berlin Wall: An Archaeological Site in Progress”  (pdf, 1673 Kb)

Feb 28: The Archaeology of the Contemporary Past: Digging into Ourselves

From Victor Buchli and Gavin Lucas. 2001.  Archaeologies of the Contemporary Past. London: Routledge

Ch 1: The absent present: Archaeologies of the Contemporary Past. pp 1-18   (899 Kb)

Ch 7: Hart & Winter: The politics of remembrance in the new South Africa: pp 84-93 (725 Kb)

Ch 8: Ludlow Collective: Archaeology of the Colorado Coal Field War 1913-1914: pp 94-107  (861 Kb)

Ch 14: Buchli and Lucas: The archaeology of alienation: a late twentieth-century British council house pp 158-168  (606 Kb)

March 6: Industrial Heritage and the Abandoned, cont'd, and To Boldly Go: Archaeology in Space

These articles deal with human made objects on the Moon, Mars, and in space, and with related sites on Earth. Don't worry too much about the legislative aspects about heritage regulations (although these are interesting); focus primarily on these as examples of the 'archaeology of us', and new landscapes, new places. There's so much human stuff in space!

Greg Fewer:  Towards an LSMR and MSMR (Lunar and Martian Sites and Monuments Records): recording planetary spacecraft landing sites as archaeological monuments of the future.    (pdf, 1003 Kb)

Alice Gorman: The Cultural Landscape of Interplanetary Space (pdf, 567 Kb)

Beth O'Leary: The Cultural Heritage of Space, the Moon, and other Celestial Bodies. Web page: http://antiquity.ac.uk/ProjGall/oleary/index.html

Optional:

Check out the trouble with space junk: http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/space/solarsystem/earth/spacejunk.shtml

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/01/0119_060119_space_junk.html

Google Mars: http://www.google.com/mars/

Google Moon: http://moon.google.com/ 

Mars Exploration: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/

Moon exploration (nice links under Resources): http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=Moon

Mar 13: Archaeology of Spectacles: Zoos and the Titanic

All readings for this week are websites.

Archaeology of Zoos:

    H. O'Regan From Bear Pit to Zoo: www.britarch.ac.uk/ba/ba68/feat2.shtml

    C. Holtorf and D. van Reybrouck: Towards an Archaeology of Zoos:

    www.zoonews.ws/IZN/325/IZN-325.htm#arch

Archaeology of the Titanic:

RMS Titanic Expedition 2003: http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/03titanic/welcome.html

Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition. Please quickly explore this website, particularly these pages:

 www.sftitanic.com/exhibition.php, www.sftitanic.com/titanic_facts.php

Optional: Additional general info about the Titanic, there's some here: http://www.titanic-        nautical.com/RMS-Titanic.html , and legislation protecting the wreck site: http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2004/33690.htm

Mar 20: Poster party:  No reading

Mar 27:  Last class:  The Future… Deep Time, and The Long Now.   Take-home final exam handed out.

These final readings are variegated explorations of the archaeology of us. For our final class, please write a 400 word reflection on these readings (worth 2%), and come ready to talk.

The Long Now and The Millennium Clock: www.longnow.org/views/essays/articles/BrianEnoLongNow.php,  www.longnow.org/about/

www.longnow.org/projects/clock/ , www.longnow.org/press/articles/Michael_Chabon_-_The_Omega_Glory.pdf  

Ghost Towns - just explore:  www.ghosttownpix.com/  , www.ontarioghosttowns.com/   COMPARE: www.ghosttownmuseum.com/

Chernobyl Diary: First, for background, skim this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster   Then, explore  www.angelfire.com/extreme4/kiddofspeed/cherlinks.html

DeMille's Lost City: www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4494713