External links:
World Culture Examiner: Unearthed: Prehistoric Ceramic Figurines from the
Balkans and Japan on display in Norwich, UK
San Francisco State University, Department of Anthropology (http://bss.sfsu.
edu/anthro/baileypage.html)
See Douglass Bailey at News and events (SF State University)
Link to Stidii de Preistorie, - a member of the editorial board is Douglass W
Bailey
Internal link: iTune lecture by Douglass W Bailey
Sample chapter from The Lost World of Old Europe (The Danube Valley,
5000-3500 BC), edited by David W Anthony: The figurines of Old Europe
Prehistoric figurines at books.google.com
I saw Douglass Bailey for the first time around 1990. I didn’t know
his name since in Sofia he had been known as the American who
was interested in Bulgarian Prehistory. But I remembered him
from the Archaeological reports. He was sitting close to the
windows in one of the front rows of the report hall at the
Archaeological Institute with Museum. Later I met him in 1991 at
the IUPPS Congress in Bratislava when he told me that my text
about the Early Bronze burials in the settlements would be
published in his book.
I probably did not look excited enough since it was the meeting
where I reported my theory of diffusion of cremation from Central
Europe to the Balkans in the Early Bronze Age. The conclusion
was so surprising for the specialists from Central Europe
educated in the traditions “Ex Balkanicus lux” that in the IUPPS
publication they turned my map with the diffusion point 180
degrees around (from the Balkans to Central Europe). Later I saw
that in the Baltic-Pontic Studies it was republished correctly.
In 1994 Ljubljana organized the first and the most exciting
meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists.
Douglass Bailey was in Ljubljana, and together with Philippe
Della Casa, Mihael Budja and many other colleagues we had a
very nice time. I had come from Zurich where I was doing
research for four months on a grant from the University of Zurich
with a host Professor Margarita Primas.
In 1995 Douglass Bailey came to the International Symposium in
Karlovo (Bulgaria), but I was so busy with the organization of the
event that in my memory is mostly the interview with Douglass
that took place on the Karlovo radio. The Bailey’s presentation at
the Symposium made me feel proud that an event at such a high
level was going in Karlovo. The Symposium on the Early Bronze
Settlement Pattern in the Balkans actually became a national
event for Bulgaria, repeated several times on the national TV
news with videos from the symposium and compliments to the
works of art by my father, the artist Peter Nikolov, and by Dechko
Todorov. Dr Krassimir Leshtakov with his students were at the
core of the success of this symposium which is now in the
historical calendar of the most prominent cultural events in
Karlovo. I also remember Douglass Bailey from the excursion to
Plovdiv during the symposium. He made a phone call when we
were in the old city, to organize his excavations in Bulgaria.
I do not have a memory of being next to him at the same table and
for this reason I cannot mention anything about his family. I
usually ask colleagues about their families when sit with them at
the table. As a matter of fact, after 1995 I met Douglass Bailey in
Thessaloniki (EAA Meeting), Puetro Rico (SAA Meeting), Cracow
(EAA Meeting) and finally this year [2008] in Dublin (WAC 6). We
did not ever talk more than 1-2 minutes but I remembered his
presentations in Puerto Rico and in Cracow that made me listen
to him and write questions in my mind, most of them left for my
research.
So, basically I know Douglass Bailey mostly from his writings.
They are not like the morning talk show of Doug Wright that I listen
to at least one a week when I am in Salt Lake. But there is
something very common between both Americans, not only the
first name. This is the excitement of what they have been doing. I
have been a reading person, but I have never felt in another
archaeologist’s books the level of excitement that Douglass
expresses from his own discoveries. He makes you go and dig
for new discoveries – to be like him. This cannot be learned from
a textbook. And I am sure there will be students who will say, “I
became a prehistorian because of Doug Bailey.”
On our archaeological sky full with rain, clouds and darkness of a
variety of storms, Douglass Bailey is the sun who always knows
how to show up between the clouds and warm all of us. This is
his patent and we may never learn his secret.
And now I don’t know what makes me more proud of Douglass
Bailey – his continuous interest in Balkan Prehistory, his perhaps
well sold books at Amazon.com, or the fact that he is part of the
academic global community as an active member of WAC, EAA
and SAA. It looks to me as though his whole personality makes
me proud of him, even when I’m not sure that he always talks nice
about me. In the church the people have their priest. In
archaeology we need a sun in the professional sky. And
Douglass Bailey is such a warming person that you just cannot
stop loving archaeology even just because of personalities like
him.
Around 1990 when I met the American interested in Bulgarian
Prehistory for the first time, I sealed him in my mind as a huge
dignitary. As I am from three generations of teachers, I have my
way to preserve social memory. So, for the 80th anniversary
birthday of Douglass Bailey, I am planning to give him two folders
with citations. In the first there will be highlighted with yellow the
positive and neutral citations of his works. In the other one I will
highlight with green the critics. At this point I don’t know which
folder will contain more my works. But I know what will be written
on the top of both of them: “Thank you Doug for having you among
the Balkan prehistorians. Without you we, the Balkan
archaeologists of the 21st century, would be more or less like
orphans.”
Lolita Nikolova
Archive:
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/archaeology/events/main/lectures_05-06/archives.html
Center for Archaeology, Columbia University in the city of New York
Bone Workshop
Friday, April 11
4:00-6:00 pm
Pam Crabtree, New York University
Location: 308 and 309 lab, Anthropology Building (25 Waverly Place) at NYU
This workshop is designed to teach students how to identify the common domesticated animals that are found on archaeological sites in the Old
World and historic North America. The workshop will focus on the osteology of cattle, sheep, goats, pigs and dogs.
Tea and Coffee Discussion
Thursday, April 17
Douglass Bailey, Stanford University
Archaeology, Land Art and spatial frames of reference
951 Schermerhorn Extension, 4:00-5:30 pm
For several years, I have been running a project excavating pit-houses at the Early Neolithic (6000-5500 BC) site of Magura in Southern Romania.
These pit-houses bother me. I am pretty sure that they are not 'houses' or even storage facilities, and even if they were, I am not so sure that
defining them as such would help us very much. What am I to do? Is there any value to looking at other region/periods where similar structures
have been studied? Is there any value in seeking cross-cultural essentialisms about function, about over-generalized trajectories of settling the
landscape, or about turning space into place? I am doubtful. In this seminar, I want to work through a different series of questions: what can we
say about our relationship to ground (forget about 'landscape'), or about the consequences of intervening into ground? What about cutting into
and dissecting surfaces? What about the diverse specificities of spatial frames of reference, of verticality, and about non-egocentric ways of living.
I am not promising any answers, but I am looking for spirited discussion.
Internal link:
http://www.iianthropology.org/anth21stcentury
External links:
unearthed: Prehistoric figurines from the Balkans and Japan
Editorial board of Studii de Preistorie: Douglass W. Bailey is a member of the Editorial board
http://www.arheologie.ro/doc/sp4/7_15_Bailey_rez.pdf
Balkan Prehistory at Kindle Amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/Balkan-Prehistory/dp/B000FBFGGC
Balkan Prehistory at Questia
http://www.questia.com/library/book/balkan-prehistory-exclusion-incorporation-and-identity-by-douglass-w-bailey.jsp
Prehistoric figurines
http://books.google.com/books?id=OnbuouMwX2AC&dq=douglass+w+bailey+prehistoric+figurines&source=gbs_summary_s&cad=0
http://ebooks.ebookmall.com/ebook/274831-ebook.htm
http://www.booktopia.com.au/prehistoric-figurines-corporeality-and-representation-in-the-neolithic/prod9780415331517.html
Kindle edition: http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=books&field-author=Douglass%20W.%20Bailey&page=1
Reviews:
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-169923813.html
http://direct.bl.uk/bld/PlaceOrder.do?UIN=228481864&ETOC=RN&from=searchengine
Readings Prehistoric figurines as individuals
http://www.jstor.org/pss/124884
Archaeological dialogues
http://www.archaeologicaldialogues.com/content/old_contents.htm



The publication with
materials from the
International Symposium in
Karlovo "Early Bronze Age
Patterns in the Balkans (ca.
3500 - 2000 BC)" where
Douglass Bailey has two
important contributions to
Early Bronze Age..
Contents
Preview at google.com
List of figures, xv
Preface and acknowledgments, xvii
Introduction, 1
Miniaturism and dimensionality, 26
Hamangia, 45
Anthropomorphism: dolls, portraits and
body parts, 66
Cucuteni/Tripolye, 88
Visual rhetoric, truth and the body, 122
Thessaly, 147
Subverting and manipulating reality, 181
Corporeal politics of being in the
Neolithic, 197
Notes, 205
Bibliography, 217
Index, 236
p. 214 (Questia)
Based on the Bulgarian
material, therefore, three
patterns emerge. First, large
tools dominate the inventory of
copper objects (86.6 per cent);
second, very few (9.5 per cent)
of the large tools (but over half
of the small objects) have
significant traces of use-wear;
and third, the vast majority of
large copper tools were
deposited during burial
ceremonies. As discussed
above, the distribution of
copper objects among burials
was not even; it was
disproportionately distributed
across cenotaph and male
burials. These patterns
suggest that most copper
objects played an expressive
role in events during which fifth
millennium BC communities
declared, claimed and
confirmed individual and group
identities within their society.
The production of copper tools
and ornaments and the
possible use of copper ore to
decorate skin or clothing fit
together in a suite of
expressive objects and
activities. The early uses of
copper were limited to
fashioning body ornaments;
the large objects made of
copper in the more developed
phases (extravagant tools and
weapons) were expressive
more than functional; and
painting the body with copper
ore would have had similar,
though perhaps less
permanent, significance and
purpose in expression. It is
little surprise then that some
anthropomorphic figurines had
bands of copper around their
legs and probably rings of
copper through ear-holes and
lip perforations.
p. 5
The combination of chapters
addressing tells provides a compelling
case for a new style of analysis of this
type of site and sets up a new agenda
for fieldwork.
From Spring/Summer 2008 Newsletter of the Dep of Anthropology, SF State University (external link) Q: What do you do in your spare time? A: As a school-boy in New Jersey, I used to sneak out of school to play pick-up hockey games at a local rink, dreaming of doing impossible things on skates, of winning the Stanley Cup. As I write this, I am riveted to the National Hockey League playoffs. My son and I are huge San Jose Sharks fans and we try to see as many games as we can. There is something extra-ordinary in hockey's mixture of brutal physical power and performative beauty. The speed, the difficulty, the coordination of people and the precision of movement are of a level found in very few public performances or spectacles. Running beneath this, there is an unwritten code that I appreciate: don't behave outside the accepted norms of equitable conduct. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you; if you don't, then look out, because you will get what's coming your way and it will not be pleasant. This underlying philosophy draws all sorts of people to hockey games, from all parts of society; I am at home in those sorts of diverse, edgy, crowds. Q: Other interests? A: I am in love with early 20th century photography. I can spend hours looking at work from this period or reading the daybooks of the key practitioners: Eduard Steichen, Gertrude Kasebier and the rest of a group who called themselves the Photo-Secessionists. Q: Anything else? A: I have a lifetime quest to find the best sashimi outside of Japan.
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In 1995 Douglass W. Bailey was an
invited participant at the International
Symposium in Karlovo (Bulgaria),
together with Jak Jakar, Gheorghe
Lazarovici, Mihael Budja, Nikola Tasic,
Michel Séfédiadès, Kamen Dimitrov,
Krassimir Leshtakov, Milorad Girić,
Nikolaus Boroffka (new article),
Ventsislav Gergov, Zoia Maxim,
Velichka Matsanova, Lolita Nikolova,
etc.
The power of dogu : ceramic
figures from ancient Japan /
edited by Simon Kaner ; with
contributions by Douglass
Bailey ... [et al.]. London :
British Museum Press, 2009.
Buy from amazon.com
1995, Karlovo, Bulgaria. Douglass W Bailey participated in the International
Symposium "Early Bronze Age Settlement Patterns in the Balkans (Ca. 3500 -
2000 BC, calibrated dates)
Video: 'unearthed' exhibition, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich,
UK. 22 June - 29 August 2010. Douglass Bailey talks about the
prehistoric figurines (1:45 - 2:46 min).
Д.У. Бейли е един от съвременните най-значими световни авторитети в областта на антропологията, който иновационно и плодотворно
свързва съвремеността с праисторията (Bailey, 2005). От особено значение е неговия анализ на праисторическото изкуство, който е
реализиран от гл. т. на теоретичните принципи на творческото изобразяване. Бейли предлога подходи към най-ранното изкуство, без
които днес то не може да бъде разбрано в актуалните му семиотични параметри. Типичен пример е разграничаването на модел на
миниатюрно представяне на изобразявания предмет (2005: 29 sq.).
Лолита Николова
Археология и енкултурацията (в контекста на балканската праистория) (manuscript)
Video: Douglass W Bailey, San Francisco State University