Jim Dixon University of the West of England, Faculty of Creative Arts A World Archaeological Congress is an odd thing. The sheer scale of the event is astounding. WAC 6 in Dublin (29 June – 4 July 2008) attracted something close to 2,000 participants from all over the world. The first time I went was…
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Pre Siberian Human Migration to the Americas: Possible validation by HTLV-1 mutation analysis
David H. Gremillion, MD, FACP (Fellow Infectious Diseases Society of America, Professor of Medicine, Nippon Medical School) Our current understanding of human migration derives from advances in four more or less integrated disciplines: archeology, physical anthropology, DNA analysis and linguistics. In recent years progress has slowed as researchers enroll familiar tools to validate or reject…
A response to Philip Duke’s The Tourists Gaze, the Cretans Glance: Archaeology and Tourism on a Greek Island (2007).
Elissa Z. Faro (Dartmouth College) I was lucky enough to read this book for the first time sitting on the beach outside Rethymnon on Crete. At first, I felt as though I were cheating – “working” while enjoying myself at the seaside on a beautiful Greek summer day. On the contrary, only a few pages…
‘Popular culture’ and the archaeological imagination: A commentary on Cornelius Holtorf’s Archaeology is a Brand! (2007)
When presented with the question of “why I became an archaeologist” I tend to cycle between 3 different responses; responses all rooted in childhood experiences. Indeed, which of these I dispense varies with whom I am speaking. My answers are: 1) I enjoyed both digging up and collecting bits and pieces of glass and metal…
The Future of Things at TAG 2009
In 1979, TAG was founded to explore interdisciplinary theoretical topics and its relevance to archaeological interpretations. Thirty years later, perhaps it is time to stop and critically evaluate where we are and where we want to go. Thus, to inaugurate a return to TAG’s roots, this plenary session provokes the big question: where are we…
Recreating a lost website: the Prambanan project revisited or Still in defence of dance as an archaeological issue
View of the Prambanan complex, October 2000 Websites do not last forever, they are as perishable as any other artefact. Our team discovered this when the website hosted by the National University of Singapore (NUS), set up in connection with the project Dance and the Temple: interpretation and construction of heritage through a virtual site…