All Sessions
You can't always get what you want… but we've got all we need! Exploring technology through big ideas and bigger datasets
Beauty or the beast? Antagonising perceptions of weaponry by marrying materialisation to microstructure in Anglo-Saxon pattern-welding
Telling the story of copper: towards a semi-fictional reconstruction of the Ghassulian copper working
The interpretation of flint and stone axes in the Copper age of South-east Europe
The hearth of the matter: material cultures of Neanderthal pyrotechnologies
More than just a lot of hot air: developing a contextualised understanding of the use of hot stone technologies in prehistoric Shetland
'Thick' networks? More-than-human networks in context in the Epipalaeolithic and early Neolithic of the Near East
Using agency theory to identifying Iron Age communities in and around Berkshire
Social geoarchaeology and mudbrick architecture: the marriage of science and theory
A technology of house construction in Northern Greece
Permanent waves: big data for investigating cross-Channel interactions during Later Prehistory
Matter theory and material culture: exploring science, society and archaeology
Understanding Cornwall's past environment and economy - 25 years of progress?
Whatever happened to Exeter?
Submergence in the Isles of Scilly
Snails, other invertebrates and coastal archaeology in South West Britain
Moor than meets the eye? Three uplands: many stories
Peatlands in south west Britain: Importance, values and sensitivity
Added value - Can phytolith analysis add to our understanding of prehistory in the south west?
Fields and farming: integrating landscape structure and environmental data in the South West of Britain
The role of diplomacy and intergovernmental work: what about the humble 'experts'
Dewey's insights of 'public issues' and the 2005 Faro Convention
More than a sensitive ear. What you are entitled to expect of a professional expert
Whose heritage? Local responses to cultural heritage practices in northern Sudan
Reykjavík's modern ruins: a heritage of the economic collapse?
When the experts are wrong.....conserving the maritime historic environment
The old bag's way: liminal places in contemporary heritage
Punks and drunks: counter mapping homelessness in Bristol
A most peculiar memorial: cultural heritage and fiction
Democratising World Heritage? The case of Blaenavon, South Wales
Local and national vying for attention in Southwark
Authentic archaeology?
The borderlands: a rough guide
Looking through Zarathustra's eyes: re-vitalising objects through the lens of Nietzsche's will to power
Is It good? A practical perspective on the art-archaeology relationship
Stones from the Sky
Is there more to prehistoric Art than archaeology?
Look into my face and tell me what you see...
Put your pen down: the performative experience as a vehicle for alternative archaeological interpretation
Quantum archaeology: a user's guide
The deposition of concepts: bones and social processes
Liberation by string or the ties that bind: site formation and pathways of interpretation
Social stratigraphy: contextualising site formation processes - a case study
Reconstructing depositional histories through faunal analysis (and why bone is great)
A fine line between treasure and gain
'Do you remember the first time?' A prolegomenal preamble through place and memory
Memory, material and place
Granny's old sheep bones and other stories from the Melton landscape
Selective memories - the past in the past of Bronze Age Scotland
Telling tales? Myth, memory and Crickley Hill
Castelo Velho and Prazo (V.N.F.Côa, Portugal): places of memory
The MTV generations: remixing the past in prehistory - commercial research in the Middle Thames Valley
'Divide or pool?' Fragmentation versus continuity in the prehistoric inhabitation of multi-period landscapes in south-east England
Innovation within tradition: transforming the longhouses of Neolithic Europe
Moving through memories: site distribution, performance and practice in Rural Etruria
"At a depth of 5-6 feet, lying in a confused heap": contextualising the Broadward metalwork hoard
Building continuity in the central Anatolian Neolithic
Quick architecture, persistent practice: the long-term use and inhabitation of the monumental landscapes of western Britain
The past in the past at the Pillar of Eliseg
The Chumash from the Channel Islands of the Californian coast: ancient DNA studies and the Pacific coastal migration route
Applying a UK theoretical perspective to North American GIS and spatial analysis
Rethinking Chaco: lessons from 'across the pond'
Historiography of rock art research in west Texas and beyond
Rambling the rivers: the narrative of a shovel bum in the Ohio and MIssissippi Valleys
An Aukward proposal: Ice Age hunters of the North Atlantic
The Transatlantic Archaeological Gateway: fishing data from the pond
Lost colony or lost cause? Everyday archaeology in the extremes of the Outer Banks
An introduction to medicine, healing and performance
Roman medicine in Hispania: a case study for finding medical practices in the archaeological record
Medical care in barbarian societies in the first millennium. Archaeological enlightened
Exploring the social dimensions of healing and medical practices in the Bronze Age Aegean
Gendered attitudes towards hygiene and ill health amongst the piously religious in medieval Sweden
'The vagaries of this foul carcass': social disease and revenant belief in Medieval England
Yoruba female elders as body therapists: a socio-cultural consideration of hot water body pressing (ara jijo) in effecting body shaping and rejuvenation
'Writing stones', secret shrines, and The Word of God in liquid form
What did the apocrypha know?
More than just a quick fix? Repair holes on early medieval Souterrain Ware
The repair and modification of early Anglo-Saxon brooches: theoretical Implications
Significant reuse: material biography and early medieval sculpture in Scotland
When is a pot still a pot?
Making do or making the world? Tempering choices in Anglo-Saxon pottery manufacture
Making do or cultural taboo?
Remembering conflict: challenges for the 21st century
Battlefields in miniature
Muddy hell: an exploration of mud as material culture of the Great War
Engaging with Second World War German sites in northern Finland
The last Blitzed building in Britain: the battle over memorial and memory in the ruins of Hull's National Picture Theatre
Protest, defiance and resistance in the Channel Islands during the German occupation: public versus private memory, 1945-2010
Shaping memory, creating identity: Chile's National Stadium
Reconsidering disciplinary divides: an historical approach
The ever moving and undrawable line: objectivism versus subjectivism in archaeology
The practical and epistemological challenge of contract archaeology in Chile
Edge effects: geophysics and the others
Overcoming epistemological fracture in Sodaworld
Popular culture and archaeological hubris
Twixt land and sea: liminality and the promontory enclosures of the Atlantic façade
Living on the edge: exploring what it meant to be a herder on the Cairo Massif between the 18th and 20th centuries
No ordinary place: a perspective from the Irish uplands
Bevere Manor: a liminal landscape of the 19th century
What goes on at ruins?
Constructing the fringe: an archaeology of the treatment of the 'insane' in the nineteenth century
Under ground? Resistance in the liminal landscape of the Memorial Woodlands Burial Ground
The spectre of non-completion
Liminal instances in Minoan mortuary rituals of pre and protopalatial period
The Politics of tradition
'Tradition': A case-study in archaeological heuristics
Situated learning and the re-animation of tradition in archaeological thought
Building traditions in question
Beyond diffusionism: examining the significance of tradition in relation to prehistoric contact
Tradition and practice at Castanheiro do Vento (Portugal)
Moving, meaning and materiality: unpacking 'tradition' in core-formed vessel making
Tradition as change
A study of the Hell-Fire Caves of West Wycombe: underground deviance and ritual debauchery
Writing on the wall: the anthropological interpretation of WW1 subterranean military graffiti on the Western Front
The contribution of local geology and anthropogenic changes to the the taphonomy of palaeoart: a case study from central India
What do caves do? Heterotopic space and Upper Palaeolithic cave art
Scary places: embodied interaction and the spiritual world of the cave
Setting Fires: Beginning to Reexamine Read's Cavern and Iron Age Cave Use in the Mendips
In combination: caves, architecture, materials and practice across the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition
From womb to tomb: caves, tombs and origin mythology in Neolithic Britain
Funeral teas: burial practice and diet at the Totty Pot and Hay Wood caves on Mendip, Somerset
The massive corruption of clever minds
Within and around us: the role of republic borders in archaeological theory and practice in former Yugoslavia
Ex Oriente Lux: Central European Palaeolithic research under the Communist rule
Marx, Sherlock Holmes and Late Italian Prehistory
"Get your facts first...": tangible aspects of ideology in Hungarian archaeology
Theory in Eastern European archaeology under the Communist rule
A social understanding and the physical shape of urban spaces
A theoretically informed study of urban contexts: the contribution of modern (social) urban theories
Urban discourses of the ancient city in "Ancient Near East" Archaeology
The urban/rural dichotomy in early medieval England
From urban to rural and back: analysing Roman urban and rural landscapes in the Mediterranean
Rethinking urban space in the Islamic city: the case of Late Islamic Zubārah
Theorising the early Greek city in its locational, micro-regional and regional context
Planning for the sun: urban forms as a Mesopotamian response to sunlight
Victorian splendour, Arnos Vale Cemetery: revealing Bristol's hidden past
Eremophilia and the beyond: the place of solitude in early urban lived experience
Building cities in the Anglo-Saxon mind: an interdisciplinary approach to urban landscape studies
Revisiting 'public buildings': making things public and social change in ancient cities
The old and the new in Egyptian archaeology: towards a methodology for interpreting GIS data using textual evidence
A Roman puzzle: why we will never find the Via Belgica with GIS and become better archaeologists in the process
The value and application of various creative media to the process of archaeological visualisation and interpretation
A CG artist's impression: depicting digital reconstructions using non-photorealistic rendering techniques
From real to virtual: reconstruction and communication of archaeological content through new media
Modeling Stonehenge: an interdisciplinary digital approach to 3D interactive storytelling
Interactive archaeological excavation: the future?
Beyond the grave: technological advancements toward a holistic approach to mortuary studies
Facebooking the past: current approaches in archaeological network analysis
"Walking through history"? Visitable archaeologies in Athens City Centre
Exhibiting Greek architectural sculpture as archaeology
Homes and castles: will the transformation of Pengersick be visitable?
At first hand: encounters with archaeology at Plymouth City Museum
Visitable archaeologies: perceptions and experiences of archaeological sites as visitor attractions from the ground up
Magicians of material culture: craft skills and the use of jet, amber, gold, faience and other special materials in Chalcolithic and Bronze Age Britain and Ireland
Crafting flint daggers in early 2nd millennium Scandinavia: knapping, smelting and new way of thinking about technology
The Hallstatt-Textiles: between function and design
You are what you make: the metallurgists' case
Creativity and tradition in craft production: opposites or two halves of a coin?
Creative Choices: Creativity and Ceramic Craft Production in Late Bronze Age Hungary
Facilitator, facilitated? Craft relationships, innovation and technological variation in the wood crafting and metallurgy of the Northern European Bronze Age
Collaboration and craft production
Metallurgical craft in 14th-12th BC Bronze Age villages In Northern Italy
Metal-work versus object biographies: a network perspective on an Early Bronze Age craft in Central Italy
Colonial theory and pottery production: the changing relationship between pots and potters during the Bronze and Iron Age in Central Italy
The Cremation Craft
Continuing the Bronze Age: sustainable metal casting 2500BCE to 2010AD
Bell Beaker metalworkers
Size does matter: space, time, GIS models and landscape archaeology
Scale, maps and the senses in landscape archaeology
Multi-scalar approaches to survey of the Roman town at Aldborough, North Yorkshire
Back to the eighties: a reassessment of a Neolithic settlement (a Dutch perspective)
The botany of stones: the environmental archaeology and landscape context of prehistoric rock-carvings in southern Sweden and Scotland
Local scale for local people: examples from past and present climate change
Exploring the social use of space using principles of relativity in GIS
Prehistoric meshworks: engaging with the multiple scales of human sociality
Finding sense in a Minoan imaginary landscape
A phenomenological approach to the uplands of the Silures
Changing concepts and contexts of power in landscape and environment of coastal Flanders, 8th century-13th century
Landscape and legitimation in high medieval Ireland
Tumuli construction as social process: the creation of monumental landscape in proto-historic Japan
Constructing kingship in early medieval Ireland: the poetics of power and place
Sand mounds and middens: coastal landscapes of power in the Viking-Norse Earldom of Orkney, 800-1200 AD
'An uproar on the earth': meaningful landscapes in the warfare of early medieval Britain
Does anything really matter?
Can the thing speak?
"We want to demolish museums..." Archaeology and the Futurist Manifesto
Air apparent: a manifesto on spatial indeterminacy
The dark matter of landscapes: manifesto for an archaeology of flow
From verb to matter: transformations in architectural rhetoric
Curating Haiti: reportage and creative archaeology
A materially affective manifesto
Towards a manifesto for entanglement: possession, enchantment and fetishism in the age of disposability
100 Million years of modernity: a manifesto for fossil-bound commodity life
Biodiversities: wildlife without recourse to Nature
Landscape and the non-ethics of archaeological practice
Landscape perception and the measurement of emotion
Mindscapes: exploring the concept of internal landscapes at the Callanish stones on Lewis
Exploring the Manx seascape: materialities and understandings of space at sea
Es-scaping islands: applying the concept of -scape in the Northern and Western Isles of Scotland
Past-scape : Future-scape
Marxism as moderation in household archaeology
Revival of Vladimir Gening's Fundamental Archaeological Theory: possible solution of contemporary methodological problems in archaeology
Surplus manipulation and social formation: the contribution of archaeological storage studies in tracing socio-cultural change
Reprising Marxism from the Ground Up: Epistemology, Space and Society
Digital archaeology at the British Museum
Public archaeology in a digital age: 2010
Multiview 3D reconstruction, public display and Weymouth's Viking mass burial
The Motion in Place Project: interim results and emerging questions
Stilton Rolling and Hadrian's Wall: using Augmented Reality to explore past perception
Machinima and virtually embodied archaeological research
Archaeology as a television parlour game: a historical analysis of ‘Animal, Vegetable, Mineral?’
Archaeological viewing by archaeological museum visitors: analysis of consumption practices and 'most satisfying' experiences
Visualisation in Archaeology (VIA)
Contemporary film-making and the Stonehenge art ban
Fake documentaries, mockumentaries, and the practice of subverting archaeological reality
Stonehenge rocks
Sound archaeology: the categorisation of sites according to their sonic characteristics
Abstract aerophones and tangible tones: prehistoric imparsimony or Occam's mallet
Deer antler whistles in Northern Iberian peninsula
'Primitive' sound, 'Ritual' performance and the origins of 'Music'
Open Circuit: the experimental sounds of prehistory in the present
Songs from the void
Pluralist practices: an introduction
Why stay an archaeologist? What can archaeology offer, and when does inter-disciplinary become just ex-discipline?
Authority and the existence of plurality
Bam: how we continued our archaeological research from contemporary to Neolithic
Approaching archaeology between art and agriculture
Are we scientists or artists?
Animation and archaeology
Excavation sites and the domination of the eye
My life as a skeuomorph
Introduction
Excavation at Netley Abbey 1893
The excavation of Duggleby Howe, North Yorkshire, 1890
A host of golden daffodils: developing theory in medieval landscape archaeology
Conservation and camouflage of the White Horse of Kilburn, North Yorkshire
Human remains, excavated at Glastonbury Abbey by CA Ralegh Radford, 1956
Modelling Stonehenge
Spheres of (inter-)action: reflexive archaeological survey in Misiones, Argentina
Put yourself in someone else's canoe: surveying outside our comfort zones
Recording a WW1 British camouflet mine 2005: health and safety nightmares of modern subterranean battlefield archaeology on the Western Front
Buckets, spades and big hats: community digging in Devon
Chinese bronze bells: moral significance and application in ceremonial music
Coins out of time and space: the transformation of values
The symbolic world of Byzantium: symbols as mneme theou and unceasing prayer
Grinding the axe into Neolithic ontologies: an example from two causewayed enclosures
Infant and child burials at the Iron Age cemetery of Berst Ness, Westray in the Orkney Islands
Fluid identities and the negotiation of space: the example of Islamic Iberia
Unearthing medieval children: an exploration of status through the analysis of growth and health in relation to burial practice
Through the backdoor to salvation: infant burial grounds in the early modern Gaelhealtachd
'Meaningful' and 'meaningless' deposition: interpreting the post-mortem treatment of human and animal bodies
Who gets a seat at the table? A gendered approach to re-conceptualizing feasting practice
Out on a wing: birds in liminal Scottish islands
Carved narratives: rocks, rock art and the geological character of some Irish stones
Entering the liminal: performativity as an effective experiential exploration of liminal space
From the sublime to the druidical: changing perceptions of chambered tombs in southern Anglesey
Is there a commercial zooarchaeology in Portugal?
The architectural impact of "nymphaea": identity creating "hubs" in space?
Utilitarian archaeology: the greatest happiness for the greatest number?
Collapse of Troy II culture: understanding the socio-cultural change during the Early Bronze Age II-III at Troy
3D interactive technology and the museum visitor experience
Air photographic analysis and mapping of the former Roman town at Aldborough, North Yorkshire (poster)
Environmental change and the art of prehistoric Scandinavia
Making pits with human and animal bodies at Horta do Jacinto, Beringel, Beja
Making pits with pottery at Vale das Éguas 3, Salvador, Serpa