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{"title":"The Cultural Turn in International Aid: Impacts and Challenges for Heritage and the Creative Industries","authors":"Agathe Dupeyron","doi":"10.1080/14655187.2020.1841510","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14655187.2020.1841510","url":null,"abstract":"Culture is often hailed as a promising avenue facilitating development at the local, national and international levels. Behind this enthusiasm lies a somewhat cynical reality: cultural projects oft...","PeriodicalId":45023,"journal":{"name":"Public Archaeology","volume":"19 1","pages":"73 - 75"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14655187.2020.1841510","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48093765","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Archaeological Training at a Former Illegal Detention Centre (1976–1983), in Buenos Aires, Argentina: Social Memory, Commitment, and Archaeological Education","authors":"Silvina Seguí, Silvina Durán, Laura Duguine, Valeria Contissa, V. Scheinsohn","doi":"10.1080/14655187.2022.2088149","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14655187.2022.2088149","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we present the archaeological training that archaeology undergraduate students of the University of Buenos Aires performed at a former illegal detention centre from the Argentinian dictatorship, the Espacio para la Memoria y la Promoción de los DDHH ex-Centro Clandestino de Detención Tortura y Exterminio ‘Club Atlético’ (Memorial Site for the Advancement of Human Rights, Former Illegal Detention, Torture and Extermination Centre ‘Athletic Club’) between 2016 and 2019. After contextualizing the development of archaeology teaching at the university level in Buenos Aires and the archaeological research at an illegal detention centre from the dictatorship, we present the results of this training to show how approaching archaeological topics in a way that is historically, politically, and physically closer to the students helped them to incorporate fieldwork and lab issues in a committed and meaningful way. GRAPHICAL ABSTRACT","PeriodicalId":45023,"journal":{"name":"Public Archaeology","volume":"19 1","pages":"53 - 72"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48945998","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Indigenous Science for a World in Crisis","authors":"S. Atalay","doi":"10.1080/14655187.2020.1781492","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14655187.2020.1781492","url":null,"abstract":"A growing body of work illustrates that community-based archaeology can contribute in valuable and meaningful ways to communities, including helping individuals and groups to heal from historical trauma. Yet the current political climate makes it challenging, even dangerous at times, to engage in such work. In what is being called the ‘post-truth’ era, there is concern that science is under attack, and I argue that the threat is heightened for Indigenous science. For Indigenous communities and archaeologists, efforts to work in partnership to bring Indigenous perspectives into public view can make one a target for bullying, aggression, and hostility. This can be damaging and have serious negative repercussions including producing further trauma for communities and individuals. Drawing on Indigenous epistemologies, I propose a model of ‘braiding knowledge’ to create space for multiple ways of knowing that complement each other, arguing that such symbiosis is necessary for our contemporary forms of knowledge production, particularly in the current political climate. I provide the example of Archibald’s approach to ‘Indigenous storywork’ as one method for archaeologists to explore, presenting examples drawn from research and teaching contexts to demonstrate the potential of arts-based research methods, such as graphic narratives, augmented reality, and animation. I propose these methods of storywork as worthy of further exploration by archaeologists in the current divisive political climate and as we face a world in crisis as one way of increasing science literacy. I argue that they have the capacity to ‘mobilize knowledge’, allowing archaeologists to reach diverse groups, creating space for knowledge exchange and connecting across differences.","PeriodicalId":45023,"journal":{"name":"Public Archaeology","volume":"19 1","pages":"37 - 52"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14655187.2020.1781492","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45780355","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Between Government and Grassroots: Archaeology as Advocacy in Southern Belize","authors":"Claire Novotny","doi":"10.1080/14655187.2020.1780365","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14655187.2020.1780365","url":null,"abstract":"The consolidation of archaeology as a scientific discipline reinforced the power of the nation-state as archaeologists produced material and intellectual data that was used to bolster state identities at the expense of the history and heritage of Indigenous peoples. Accordingly, there are inherent structural inequalities within the discipline that favour researchers from Western nation-states in knowledge creation about the past. In this paper I explore the political implications of advocating for an equitable archaeological practice in Belize, Central America. Though archaeological research has incorporated grassroots engagement and community-based approaches, there is a gap in the discussion about negotiations with government officials. Among the issues surrounding grassroots advocacy is walking a ‘middle ground’ between negotiating with government officials for excavation permits and working closely with disenfranchised communities. Building relationships between registers of power supports the practice of a socially just archaeology abroad and could mitigate the structural inequalities inherent in our discipline. I illustrate this ‘middle ground’ with the Aguacate Community Archaeology Project, which I conducted in collaboration with Aguacate village, Toledo district, from 2012 to 2015. I explore the role of the archaeologist as an advocate for local communities’ control over knowledge produced on their community land.","PeriodicalId":45023,"journal":{"name":"Public Archaeology","volume":"19 1","pages":"23 - 36"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14655187.2020.1780365","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44623965","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Editorial","authors":"Tim Schadla‐Hall, F. Benetti, M. Oldham","doi":"10.1080/14655187.2019.2014150","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14655187.2019.2014150","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45023,"journal":{"name":"Public Archaeology","volume":"18 1","pages":"189 - 190"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48555725","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Eliciting Historical Thinking: The Use of Archaeological Remains in Secondary Education","authors":"G. Kouseri","doi":"10.1080/14655187.2021.1904369","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14655187.2021.1904369","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates the expression of historical thinking by students in the school and museum environment, based on the study of the past through archaeological remains. The empirical investigation was carried out in five schools in Athens, four state and one private, and included a total sample of 189 middle and high school students (12–13 and 15–16-year-olds). The students were exposed to archaeological remains in three different forms, actual physical objects, printed images of the objects, and digital representations thereof. Data was collected from written responses to a questionnaire and from their responses during a semi-structured interview, as well as from observations by the researcher during the whole process. Based on an analysis of their responses, it was clear that most of the students had grasped the historical significance of the archaeological remains they had studied. They referred to them in relation to their historical context, based on their recollection of pre-existing historical knowledge or the use of relevant information given to them. However, the expression of interpretative historical thinking in several responses appears to be influenced by the historical or non-historical character of each question or task, as well as the type of archaeological remains they had studied. Parameters such as age, gender, and socio-cultural background also appear to have influenced their expression of historical thinking.","PeriodicalId":45023,"journal":{"name":"Public Archaeology","volume":"18 1","pages":"217 - 240"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14655187.2021.1904369","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44983829","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Assessing How Representation of the Roman Past Impacts Public Perceptions of the Province of Britain","authors":"R. Hingley","doi":"10.1080/14655187.2021.1947064","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14655187.2021.1947064","url":null,"abstract":"There is a lack of detailed research into the attitudes of the public in Britain to the Roman past. Information and views about the Roman period are communicated to people in the UK through education at school and also by the media (TV, films, the Internet). Museums and other heritage centres also provide interpretations for visitors, although these venues tend to cater for people who have progressed to a fairly advanced level in the educational system. This paper explores the public debate resulting from the BBC cartoon of a ‘Roman family’ in Britain (Beard, 2017). It argues that some of the extreme reactions to the idea that people came from North Africa to settle and to live in Roman Britain may have drawn upon some old-fashioned ideas about the past that have persisted in school education in England. It appears to be difficult for certain members of the public to understand that ideas about the past that they learnt at school were interpretations rather than ‘facts’ and that knowledge is constantly changing. That society in the Roman empire was highly mobile provides particularly informative parallels for modern Britons. To exploit this potential, however, will require archaeologists to take a more direct interest in communicating their research to a broader range of audiences.","PeriodicalId":45023,"journal":{"name":"Public Archaeology","volume":"18 1","pages":"241 - 260"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14655187.2021.1947064","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45573065","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Ensuring Archaeology in the Planning System Delivers Public Benefit","authors":"P. Belford","doi":"10.1080/14655187.2020.1833525","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14655187.2020.1833525","url":null,"abstract":"Archaeologists in the UK work in a variety of structures, but all archaeology is for the benefit of the public. Since 1990 the majority of archaeological work has been undertaken as part of the planning process. A complex system has evolved which attempts to deliver wider public benefit. There are differences between England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, but the underlying principles are broadly the same across the UK. In 2020 radical changes were proposed to the planning system in England which could potentially impact on both the archaeological profession and the public benefits it generates. This paper outlines the evolution and operation of the current UK system with particular reference to England, and highlights some changes that the new proposals could make to the status quo. Some structural issues are highlighted which will need to be overcome for archaeologists to improve things for themselves and for the society they serve in the future.","PeriodicalId":45023,"journal":{"name":"Public Archaeology","volume":"18 1","pages":"191 - 216"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14655187.2020.1833525","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48744146","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Editorial","authors":"Tim Schadla‐Hall, F. Benetti, M. Oldham","doi":"10.1080/14655187.2019.2014128","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14655187.2019.2014128","url":null,"abstract":"This issue of Public Archaeology is devoted to the investigation of the popular understanding and representation of archaeology, and includes two papers that focus on the subject from very different angles. In the first paper, Tina Paphitis explores the potential for folklore to enrich archaeological studies. Although the recognition of the importance of folklore in archaeology is not new in scientific literature (see e.g. Gazin-Schwarts & Holtorf, 1999), this paper provides a theoretical framework to approach folklore in public archaeology, since it ‘arises frommeaningful engagements with places in particular contexts, rather than ignorant explanations for the presence of a site’. In this sense, rather than being a nice ‘add-on’ to research, the paper demonstrates that engaging with folklore is useful for investigating the complex relationships with sites and landscapes and can become a tool for including different perspectives in archaeological research. Through understanding the significance of archaeological features for the social groups who created historic folklore and contemporary ethnographies, Paphitis points out that this study ‘can... be seen as a form of interpretive public archaeology, where we go beyond what the public think or how they engage with the past to why and to what end’. Although folkloric studies can foster public participation throughout different stages of archaeological work, the paper shows that they are not used consistently in the UK, despite the efforts to promote inclusive practices, with several organizations trying to embed diversity and inclusion in their strategies (see e.g. Historic England, 2020). The second paper focuses on pseudoarchaeology, conspiracy theories, and their relationship with nationalism in the United States. Franco Rossi uses AlienCon 2018, a conference for the fans of the History Channel seriesAncient Aliens, to consider how archaeology is (mis)used to promote ideological narratives. The paper analyses the links with archaeology in AlienCon and in the TV series, and reflects on the portrayal of academia and the links with Christianity. Alongside other works related to the topic of alternative archaeology (e.g. Fagan, 2006; Moshenska, 2017), this paper aims to better understand the phenomenon and think about how archaeologists might respond: a timely topic, considering the recent (mis)use of archaeology by some extremist parties in Europe (see Rodríguez-Temiño & Almansa-Sánchez, 2021). Finally, we publish a book review of ‘The Brutish Museums’, written by Dan Hicks (2020), which focuses on the issue of repatriation — widely debated in museum studies, but also for objects in public spaces, such as the Ethiopian public archaeology, Vol. 18 No. 3, August 2019, 137–138","PeriodicalId":45023,"journal":{"name":"Public Archaeology","volume":"18 1","pages":"137 - 138"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42231001","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Reckoning with the Popular Uptake of Alien Archaeology","authors":"Franco D. Rossi","doi":"10.1080/14655187.2021.1920795","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14655187.2021.1920795","url":null,"abstract":"This article summarizes my experience at Baltimore AlienCon in 2018. The programme offered a curious blend of themes explored in Ancient Aliens and similar programming, alongside other domains of ‘pseudoscience’, ‘rogue’ archaeology, and conspiracy theory, with an added touch of science-fiction fandom and marketing for Prometheus Entertainment. Framed by the event, this article considers aliens, heritage, and belonging in the United States at a moment of unprecedented misinformation campaigns and historical racial reckoning. It explores how archaeological expertise is implicated, invoked, and rejected in such forums and their associated media; and questions how anthropologists and archaeologists might reckon with the often-troubling widespread public uptake of their knowledge into influential conspiracies. GRAPHICAL ABSTRACT","PeriodicalId":45023,"journal":{"name":"Public Archaeology","volume":"18 1","pages":"162 - 183"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14655187.2021.1920795","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45417284","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}