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TAG2010: 32nd annual meeting of the Theoretical Archaeology Group
Bristol, 17th-19th Dec 2010
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