Monday 18th December, Afternoon Sessions, 13:00-16:30

1. An Archaeology Committed to the Future: From the Social and Environmental Valueof Archaeological Theory to the Decolonisation of Development-Led Archaeology.
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Session Abstract:
This session aims to apply a creative and speculative lens to archaeology, as a field of research andpractice, to explore, in an ambitious and optimistic way, how the discipline might look like in the future.
The session is particularly interested in exploring how we shall bridge the gap between archaeologicaltheory and development-led practices, to explore how they can both contribute towards a moresustainable future for the discipline and society.
Some of the questions we would like to explore are:
What will be the contribution of both research and development-led archaeology to the Anthropocene?
How will we contribute towards the well-being of society? Can we decolonise development-led
archaeology, and if so, how do we do it? How do we make the ‘development’ in development-led
archaeology less problematic? How do we bridge the gap between an increasingly elitist theoreticalarchaeology, and an increasingly precarious commercial practice, that struggles to include social orsustainable values in the agenda? How can we bring theoretical archaeology to the forefront ofdevelopment-led archaeology? How shall we make sure archaeology is useful fighting the climate
emergency?
We particularly welcome the contributions of early career researchers and those working in thedevelopment-led sector, as well as contributions from more established researchers willing to develop
a long-term dialogue with the commercial sector.

Organisers: Guillermo Diaz de Liaño (MOLA), Sadie Watson (MOLA), Alice Clough(MOLA/University of Bournemouth)
13:00

Introduction to the session by Guillermo Diaz, Sadie Watson, andAlice Clough113:15

Neil Redfern (Council for British Archaeology):
The CBA at 80 – Reflecting on the interface between commercial
and grassroots archaeology in developing sustainable practice inthe future.

13:30

Sadie Watson (MOLA):
Archaeology today and tomorrow. What changes do we want tosee, and what changes do we fear?

13:45

Alice Clough (MOLA & Bournemouth University):
Telling different stories: developing future-oriented, experimental
approaches to large-scale linear infrastructure schemes.

14:00

Discussion slot/questions for the first half of session

14:30

Tea/Coffee Break

15:00

Fàres K. Moussa (University of Southampton) and Charles Le
Quesne (University of Oxford & Quercus Heritage):‘Space Invaders’: enabling the reclamation and continuity of nonlinear time-space in development-led archaeology.

15:15

Ana González San Martín (Brown University):
The making of archaeological theory: between the ivory tower andthe coffee break.

15:30

Guillermo Diaz de Liaño (MOLA):
Once upon a time… we looked South. From archaeology today totomorrow’s archaeology in three acts.

15:45

Discussion slot/questions for second half of session

16:00

General Discussion and Final Remarks

22. Towards an ‘archaeoecology’ of landscape
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Session Abstract:
Adaptations to a changing climate require, above all, transdisciplinary solutions. One of the
key concepts in this respect is landscape. Archaeologists have tended to adopt the term as
simply connoting a scale of analysis above that of the individual site but the wider literature,including the European Landscape Convention, makes it clear that landscape represents theentanglement of culture and nature at a variety of scales. So how could we help develop andcontribute to a more inclusive landscape discipline that brings nature into archaeologicalwork and provides a historical dimension to ecological approaches? And how might anattention to landscape in four dimensions address our anxieties about environmental change
and help generate more sustainable places for people and other species? This session invites
contributions presenting theoretical approaches, methodologies, case studies or creative
responses to inform a transdisciplinary landscape archaeology.
Organiser: Jonathan Last (Historic England)
14:00

Jonathan Last:
Introduction: towards an ‘archaeoecology’ of landscape

14:20

Colin Weighell (University of Southampton):
The chalk influence: ecocultural confluence and creation in the Wessex
Basin

14:45

Ana González San Martín (Brown University):
Labourscapes and the conviviality of action

15:10

Stewart Bryant (Independent Researcher):Along the way and on the edge: the case for a holistic approach toresearch and conservation of the Icknield Belt landscape

15:35

Lara Band (Independent Researcher):In the midst of rich meadows / it was perfectly clear / I walked withcompany: creative archaeology of landscapes, in and for the
Anthropocene (a film and paper)

16:00

Discussion

3. Increasing impacts of Climate Change on Cultural Heritage and Human Migrations
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Session Abstract:
The effect of climate change and the changing perspectives on heritage have had major
influences on the use and practice of heritage in many areas around the world. There havebeen instances of mass movements of people leaving their ancestral homes for more friendly
locations. Others have abandoned certain lifestyles or cultural practices, such as culinaryways, in the face of boisterous climate crises. How is climate change perceived among theindigenous groups? What is the degree of impacts of climate change on primordial cultural
practices, and how can its impacts be measured? What can indigenous epistemologies
contribute to abating the impact of climate change on cultural heritage?
This session critically seeks to critically engage these questions with the aim to formulating
theoretical and practical approaches to mitigating the effects of climate change on bothtangible and intangible cultural heritage. It focusses on a multidisciplinary approach in thediscussion on issues relating to how communities adapted or have been adapting and theregional and local circumstances that negatively affect heritage practices across the globe
from theoretical perspectives. This session therefore welcomes research papers from scholars
in Archaeology, Anthropology, Geography, Palynology and other disciplines to discuss local,
regional or continental cases. We especially encourage climate change experts,
environmentalists to be part of the session.
Organisers: Kolawole Adekola and Macham Mangut (University of Jos)
13:00

Macham Mangut:
Climate Change and Migration: Chadic Migrations and theTransformation of Ethnic Identities on the Jos Plateau, Nigeria

13:15

Akinbowale M. Akintayo (University of York), Zachariah H. Mshelia(Disaster Managament Training and Education Centre for Africa,
University of the Free State):
Climate change and its effects on coastal historic communities: casestudy of Badagry in Southwestern Nigeria

13:30

Patience Nanep Ladan (University of Bokkos):
Historical Archaeology of Climate-Induced Human Migration in the
Adjourning Lowlands of the Jos Plateau

13:45

Discussion

14:15

Tea/coffee

14:45

Albert Larbi Appiah (University of Ghana):

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The Impact of Climate Change on Ancient Settlements: A study of
Larteh Amanfu (Amanfro), a 17th Century Urban Centre in Akuapem,
Eastern Region of Ghana
15:00

Na’ankwat Kwapnoe-Dakup (Sainsbury Research Unit, UEA): Effects of
Climatic Changes on Kofyar Cultural Practices

15:15

Adum Edward Nyarko (University of Ghana):
Death, Destruction and Migration: Ghana’s Varnishing Past

15:30

Hamza Woodson (University of Oxford):
A Pilgrim’s Solemn Rite: Theoretical Discussions on Indigeneity,
Environment, and Pilgrimage within The Moroccan Jewish Diaspora

15:45

Sara Simões, Ana Maria Costa, Cláudia Oliveira, João Tereso, Maria da
Conceição Freitas, Maria da Conceição Lopes, Patrícia Mendes, Rui
Gomes Coelho, Rute Arvela, Sandra Domingues Gomes, and Sónia
Gabrie (University of Lisbon):The environmental impacts of slavery in two different regions of theAtlantic world: Cacheu (Guinea-Bissau, West Africa) and Sado
(Portugal, Southwestern Europe)

16:00

Discussion

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4. “The Archaeology Made all the Difference.”
A Speculative Design Workshop for Sectorial Response to Climate Change.
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Session Abstract:"2022 was yet another year of climate extremes across Europe and globally.
These events highlight that we are already experiencing the devastating consequences of ourwarming world.”(European 3C Service Deputy Director, Samantha Burgess).
As individuals and professionals, we must accept that we are no longer planning for climatechange but consciously or unconsciously responding to it. Despite significant work having
been and continuing to be done across the cultural heritage sector it still lacks focus andcohesion and therefore any sense of the effectiveness of this work. If archaeology IS to be
the difference, then a critical assessment of current practice is required. Are we asking theright questions? Working with the right people? Using the right approaches? Do we have thedata, tools, funding, roles and structures we need?
This half-day, inter-disciplinary workshop aims to bring together a broad, representative
group of archaeologists and heritage practitioners and will follow the ‘Futurescaping’
speculative design protocol (CoHERE, 2019) developed specifically for innovation and change
the Cultural Heritage Sector by Areti Galani and Gabriella Arrigoni (Newcastle University) andtheir partners at the Copenhagen School of Design and Technology. Grounded in criticaltheory, speculative design, while future-oriented, is not about predicting the future.
Leveraging collective intelligence its purpose is to suspend present-day constraints in order
to ask questions about the politics and values in the sociotechnical systems that we currently
experience (or might want to experience in the future) by creating an imagined worldconfigured differently from our own. It is speculative in that it re-imagines the world to beorganized into different social, political, economic, and technological configurations, or what
Auger (2013: 12) terms “alternative presents”. However, speculation alone is insufficient. The
final action in this workshop will evaluate what is needed to deliver the desired future
outcomes, against current capabilities and capacities to provide a starting point for a
strategic sectorial response to climate change.
Organisers: Lorna-Jane Richardson (UEA) and Claire Boardman (University of York)6

5. The Multiscale Archaeology of Big and Small Events
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Session Abstract:“The archaeological record is not composed of the residues of structures, practices orprocesses but the residues of events” (Lucas, 2008) But what is an event? Some debates havealready been made and aim to define an event as relating to something that happened in acertain space and in a certain time, even though the concepts of space and time are inthemselves under discussion. Events in archaeology can have different approaches, theirduration or length for example, but they always leave tangible and intangible evidence,
which inevitably becomes the archaeological working material. In this session, we aim to
discuss the impact that large- and small-scale events, (leaving the consideration of what islarge-scale or small-scale to the presenters) have on the existence of different people,
animals, things, buildings, or landscapes. Responding to the topic of TAG2023 we welcome
papers that consider the impact of these events based on different scalar readings ofpollution, environment, climate change, economics, social acceleration, cultural changes,
religious confrontations, and entertainment, among others.
Organisers: Tánia Casimiro and Joel Santos
13:00

Matt Edgeworth (University of Leicester):
The multi-scalar Anthropocene Event and its archaeological signature

13:20

Carlos Del Cairo Hurtado, L. Victoria Báez Santos, Liliana Rozo Pinzón,
Jesús Aldana Mendoza, Carla Riera Andreu, Gabriela Caro León, Juan
Sarmiento Rodríguez, Andrés López Narváez (NGO Colombia, Anfibia):
Anthropocene and Climate Change: Evidence of Hyperobjects in the
Archaeological Record of Coastal Contexts in the Littoral of Tierra
Bomba Island, Cartagena de Indias (Colombia)

13:40

Hyunjung Park (Hokkaido University):

14:00

Consideration on the creation and development of spaces with afocus on Ano-greenhouse
Discussion

14:30

Tea/coffee

15:00

Jesus Martin Alonso (University of Amsterdam):
Diggin a simulacrum: fake temporality in the abandoned film set ofGolden City (Madrid)7

15:20Paul Graves Brown (University of York):
Pulp Fiction, or how did we get where we are?

15:40

Jiajing (Iris) Mo (Durham University):
Flourishing along the Himalayas: urban process in Nepal’s Wester
Terai, 1-1000 CE

16:00

Tânia Casimiro (University of Lisbon) and Joel Santos (University ofLeicester):
You just lost your thing there…or is it everywhere?

16:20

Discussion

Monday evening 18th December 17:00-21:30
Thomas Paine Lecture Theatre, 17:00-17:10

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Professor David Maguire: Vice Chancellor’s welcome
Professor Sarah Barrow: Pro-Vice Chancellor’s welcome to the Faculty of Arts and Humanities

KeynoteThomas Paine Lecture Theatre, 17:10-17:55
Professor Joanne Clarke, UEA

Archaeology, heritage and climate change: how recent research is influencing international
policy agendas
Outstanding contribution to archaeological theory prize to be awarded to Professor Colin

Renfrew
Wine reception and dinner in Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, 18:00-21:30
Gallery/Modern Life Café drinks reception followed by dinner

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Tuesday morning 19th December 9:00-13:00
6. Mountains have souls and some statues are gods: Living artefacts, climate justice, andnew animism in archaeology
Meet in the Living Area of the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts
(congregate by Mother and Child, Henry Moore)
Session Abstract:
In this session we wish to discuss the ways in which artefacts, art, and the landscape have thecapacity of being alive. The session invites speakers who engage with ideas inspired by the
ontological turn, environmental personhood, indigenous theories, new animism or in any way
looking at personhood of objects in the past or present.
We broadly want to discuss animacy on the basis of a shared concern with the potential forthe personhood of nonhumans. This means how living art and objects manifested themselvesin past societies, as we know there was much ontological fluidity, in which some objects werealive and could speak (Mol 2023). However, we also want to think about how we asarchaeologists, theorists, museum, and heritage professionals can engage with that sense of‘alterity’ in the present world. For example, New Animism as a movement seeks to secure
personhood rights for nonhuman beings through legal means (environmental personhood),
successfully establishing these rights in countries such as Equador, Bolovia, India, or New
Zealand. For the Māori Whanganui tribes some rivers or mountains are ancestors (tupuna),
and this has been influential in granting legal personhood to New Zealand’s Whanganui River.
Although we should be very critical in all these examples about the ways this serves indigenous
communities and about where responsibilities are situated (Tănăsescu 2020), adopting
animism could potentially be a further aid towards climate justice.

Organisers: Eva Mol (University of York) and Jago Cooper (Sainsbury Centre, UEA)
10:00

Jago Cooper (Sainsbury Centre):
Introduction – Living Art in the Museum.

10:15

Eva Mol (Univeristy of York):‘There’s a spirit within’; how are the past and the future aided byanimism.

10:30

Chris Wood (Independent Researcher):10‘Ensouled Statues: A Relection’, inspired by the ‘Female Shinto Deity’(accession no. 1146) in the Living Area.
10:45

Shanshan (Lisa) Li (University of York):
If Neolithic figurines could speak to us in the present, who would
they ask to speak to?

10:50

Guillermo Díaz de Liaño (MOLA):
Objects but not just objects. How the ontological turn allows us to
manage the ‘ontological excess’ of things with personhood.

11:00

Na’ankwat Kwapnoe-Dakup (Sainsbury Research Unit, UEA):
Archaeological sites or living entities? Kofyar notion of ‘Archaeology’.

11:15

Reflection break

11:30

Farès K Moussa (University of Southampton):
New Animism: a 21st century Promethean fallacy? Maile figure(‘Fisherman’s god’), accession no. 189.

11:45

Anastasia Chrysanthi Solomu (Independent Researcher):
The personhood and liveliness of non-human persons as participantsin Minoan peak sanctuary practices: a neuro-archaeological,
cognitive, and phenomenological approach.

12:00

Patrick Mullins, (Visiting Fellow, Sainsbury Research Unit; Visiting
Assistant Professor, Washington College):
Listening to the Huaco: The Animated Landscapes of the Moche
Valley as told by Huaco 40089 (Wellcome)

12:15

Sara Sallam (multidisciplinary artist):

Visions of Ancient Egypt.
12:30

Collective Think-in

13:00

Lunchtime: Continued discussion for anyone who wants to sit in the
Terrace Cafe in the Sainsbury Centre together.

7. Risk, resilience and response: societal responses to past and future rapid climatechange11

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Organisers: Joanne Clarke (UEA) and Nick Brooks (Independent Researcher)
13:00

Nick Brookes:
Archaeology and the climate crisis How can archaeology help us
think about and respond to climate disruption in the 21 st century?

13:20

Joanne Clarke:
Archaeology, Climate Change and the IPCC’s Concept of Risk.

13:40

14:00

Pir Hoebe:
The North Sea giveth, and she taketh away: Exploring the risks ofinundating landscapes on hunter-gatherers in Northwest Europe andits meaning
Discussion

14:30

Tea/coffee

15:00

Bolaji Owoseni (University of Cambridge):
Researching during the Covid-19 Pandemic in Ilorin Nigeria: someexperiences and lessons in the field.

15:20

Discussion

128. Place, Climate and Health: Archaeology, Therapy and Well-being
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Session Abstract:
The practice of undertaking archaeological work and stimulating the imagining of different
pasts can be therapeutic, leading to measurable improvements in self-assessment of wellbeing and mental health. Programmes providing experiential encounters with archaeologicalobjects, sites and landscapes can provide a sense of value and help to establish notions andfeelings of stewardship towards both human and non-human aspects of place. Theoreticallyone reason for this may be the dissolving or converging of the Cartesian dichotomy culture /nature and much unnecessary transactional and hierarchical baggage attendant in thatstructure.
There appears to be a unique role for the therapeutic benefits of archaeology withapplicability for resilience in the face of climate shifts, in dealing with loss of landscapes andthe resultant sorrow and anxiety. Tiering of such experiences is likely key, so that thepractices and imaginings are relatable and pragmatic to different people depending on theirprevious experiences. Ritual and reciprocity can be incorporated into the practice with anemphasis on non-transactional, non-directive ontological mindsets. Imagining different
social realities and exploring individual’s different ways of relating to the inherited world canthen be factored into the practice of community archaeology, particularly through creative
responses.
This session is interested in drawing out the value of different responses to the past andexamining models for how this can be facilitated. Evaluation and assessment of benefits arenecessary to better encode successful practices in future work and to unlock support. The
session is also interested in exploring the relationship between educational and therapeutic
practices and the merging of the two. More work and further case-studies on facilitating
community project co-creation is also a key interest.
Organisers: Harriet Sams (Bournemouth University), Chris Elmer (University of Southampton)and Andy Hutcheson (Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Culture, UEA)
9:00

Introduction

9:05

Carenza Lewis (University of Lincoln):
New perspectives on the relationship between heritage andwellbeing

9:25

Timothy Darvill (Bournemouth University):

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Scaling-up Human Henge: Ancient landscapes and mental health wellbeing
9:40

Neil Redfern (CBA):

9:55

The Wellbeing and Heritage Working Group: Creating a Communityof Practice.
Discussion

10:20

Tea/coffee

10:50

Harriet Sams (Bournemouth University):
Archaeology as therapy - experiencing landscape and objects: visits
to the UEA Broad and to the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts

11:00

Guided visit to either UEA Broad or the Sainsbury Centre with a focus
on mindful contemplation of landscape or materials

12:00

Discussion

12:30

Lunch

Afternoon open session; participants’ views of taking part in the Later
Prehistoric Norfolk Project and Archaeology 4 Wellbeing
13:30

Andy Hutcheson (SISJAC, UEA): Introduction to the afternoon

13:40

Darren France, Ian Brownlie and Laura Drysdale (Restoration Trust):
Archaeology 4 wellbeing

14:00

Robert Fairclough (Restoration Trust):
The film and drawn record of communities embarked on archaeology
at Arminghall Henge and Warham Camp Hillfort.

14:15

Chris Smith (Restoration Trust):
Thoughts on taking part in a community archaeology project.

14:25

Phil Wells (Restoration Trust):
Community archaeology through a lens

14:35

Discussion

15:00

Tea/coffee

15:30

Michael Pittaccio and Leeanne Reed (Reepham High School andCollege):
Curriculum Enhancement for High School and College Students Introduction to Archaeology

1415:45Hearing from the students who participated

16:00

Alice Jaspers (University of Southampton):
Playing by the book: the Book of Deer and questions of repatriation

16:15

Helen Farr (University of Southampton):
Maritime Cultural Heritage and Climate Change.

16:30

Andy Hutcheson (SISJAC, UEA):
Climate, archaeology, health and wellbeing

16:45

Stephanie Piper, Aimée Little, Andy Needham, Gareth Perry, Emily
Shoesmith, Trish Darcy, Peter Coventry and Piran White (University ofYork):
CraftWell: Investigating Connections Between Heritage Crafting, theOutdoors, and Wellbeing

17:00

Chris Elmer (University of Southampton):
A hot topic; disruption and dilemma during a climate crisis

17:15

Discussion

17:30

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9. Temporalities, ontologies and teaching and learning: archaeology to address global
challenges
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In this session, we explore how archaeological theory can be used in our teaching andlearning to address global challenges. For instance, how do we go about addressing climatechange in our teaching? Can lessons be learnt from past behaviour? Does studying migrationand movement in the past offer insights into population shift today? Is there a role for the
past in understanding and addressing inequalities? This session seeks to draw on examples
of using teaching and learning to inspire positive contributions to some of today’s global
issues.
But this is TAG! So we have papers which do not just ‘show and tell’, but which engage withthe value of broader theoretical debates to inform their teaching and learning. For instance,
can we frame Pétursdóttir’s (2017, 2020) drift archaeology of the Anthropocene in ourclassrooms and our labs? Can we learn from Mol’s (2021) approach to embed slow
archaeologies of looking in our learning? Can indigenous archaeologies re-shape how weteach and learn field practice, as we see in Cipolla, Quin and Levy (2019)? Does a newmaterialist approach inspire new ways of seeing the world today and reframing assemblagesof teaching and learning (Cobb and Croucher 2020)? Do posthumanist feminist approaches
provide space for disrupting the human at the heart of our teaching and learning (e.g. Cobb
and Crellin 2022)?
This will be a non-judgemental, safe space to discuss the role of theory in our teaching andlearning of archaeologies of climate change and beyond. It will complement the session onarchaeology and contemporary value.
Organisers: Hannah Cobb (University of Manchester) and Karina Croucher (University ofBradford)
9:00

Hannah Cobb and Karina Croucher:
Introduction

9:10

Anna Fisher (University of Leicester):Modular degrees, modular thinking? How the structure ofundergraduate degrees limits our ability to think critically and address
global challenges.

Lorna-Jane Richardson (UEA):
9:30‘Do Different’: Interdisciplinarity at a Time of Crisis

9:50

Katherine Patton (University of Toronto) and Steph Piper (University
of York):
Teaching Archaeology and the Climate Crisis: examining the limits
and promise of archaeological thinking

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10:10Hanna Steyne (University of Manchester/Wessex Archaeology) andEmma Rae (First People’s State Relations, Victoria):
Challenges and opportunities of offshore development projects andupskilling First Peoples and archaeologist

10:30

Tea/coffee

11:00

Katherine Fennelly (University of Sheffield):
Ground rules, conventions and rituals: understanding the concept
and language of ‘Community’ in the classroom

11:20

Mia Coe and Krupa Sayania (University of Bradford):
Learning archaeology and global challenges: a student perspective

11:40

Laura Hampden (Historic England), Hannah Cobb and Karina
Croucher:
Posthuman Pedagogies and Affirmative Action: An association forteaching and learning in archaeology

12:00

Discussant: Eva Mol (University of York):
Roundtable discussion

13:00

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10. Elsewhere: Rethinking Settlements through Non-places, Edges, and Forgetfulness
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Session Abstract:
As Latour (Guinard, Lin & Latour 2020) reminds us, built space has its 'ghost acres' elsewhere.
Every town and dwelling is entangled with a flurry of near and distant places through vital
movements of extraction, dispersal, and dislocation. Yet settlement archaeology has
traditionally focused on built space; durable accumulations of things and memories; on thearchaeological site as a defined unit. Narratives built in this way may revolve around centres

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or essences—‘what was this place like?’—reinforcing the tacit notion that settlements areintegral places with entrenched histories and character. Questions of movement may remain
secondary, or unasked: ‘what was coming in; going out; fast forgotten; living on the edge?’
This session asks what settlement archaeology might look like if we characterised
settlements through their unravelling edges. Such ‘elsewheres’ are often transient, un-homelike or unwanted: in Auge’s (1992) words, ‘non-places’. Non-places are defined by how wemove through them, and how they resist ‘settling in’. Though crucial to any settlement, their
histories form through decidedly different dynamics of remembering, forgetting,accumulation and erasure.
Organisers: Kevin Kay (University of Leicester) and Laurence Ferland (Université Laval)

9:00

Kevin Kay and Laurence Ferland:
Introduction

9:10

Juan Palá Gutiérrez (UCL):
Ruination and Non-places in the Neoliberal Suburb

9:30

Ben Jervis (University of Leicester):Taking Urbanity Elsewhere: Extending Perceptions of Medieval
Urbanism

9:50

Laurence Ferland (Université Laval):
Water & Waste – Dissonance and Disconnection in colonial Québec
City

10:10

Discussion

10:30

Tea/coffee

11:00

Kevin Kay (University of Leicester):Ghost acres and zombie plots: Neolithic settlement as metabolic
movement

11:20

Clive Jonathon Bond (University of Winchester and King’s Lynn
Archaeological Society):
Lithics scatters, Ecology and Non-places

11:40

Kiah Johnson (University of Cambridge):
Wild South-West: Land use and community-building in arid Northern
Cape hinterland, South Africa

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12:00Héloïg Barbel (Université Laval):“There’s no place on earth like home”: engaging with decolonial
epistemologies through community-based archaeology

12:20

Brodhie Molloy (University of Leicester):“Hold her down with soggy clothes and breezeblocks: unsettled
materialities as (other) foundations of settlements

12:40

Discussion

13:00

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11. How did we get here? Exploding the day-to-day to explore climate relations.
Full day workshop
Organisers:
Lara Band (Independent researcher/University of the Highlands and Islands)
Harriet Crisp (Independent researcher)
Helen Garbett (Social Artist Researcher/University of the Highlands and Islands)
Hilary Orange (Swansea University)
Janet Tryner (Contemporary Artist. MA Art & Archaeology, University of the Highlands andIslands)
Katherine Watson (Swansea University)
Katy Whitaker (Historic England)
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Session Abstract
This session will address the climate and ecological emergencies by exploring relationships
between humans, non-humans, things and the planet. Through archaeological and art
practices, it will investigate issues including (but not limited to) consumption,interconnectedness, conservation, extractive colonialism, mutual reliance and Anthropocene
assemblages. Culminating in an artist-facilitated workshop during the conference,
participants will collaborate to re-present research as an artwork. Inspired by Cassie
Newland’s work (2022) that explodes the telegraph into a rhizomatic network of global
relations, in advance of the conference each participant will research the multiple narratives
and landscapes of something essential to their journey to, or reason for attending, TAG2023– such as a car key, breakfast cereal, ranging rod, railway track steel, pollen sample, aircraft
wing, laboratory pipette, walking boot sole… We will follow things where they take us,
seeking to hear their stories about the world and its condition.

Note The artwork created at the conference is open: it could be one collective piece,
individual pieces, or indeed a whole that is brought together made from individual items.
The process is as, if not more important, than the result. We make no clear distinction
between artist and archaeologist. Participants will be welcome to bring media with them tothe workshop.
Participants:
Claire Boardman, University of York
Tânia Manuel Casimiro, FCSH NOVA University of LisbonJoão Sequeira, University of Minho
Alice Clough, University of Bournemouth/Museum of London Archaeology
Catriona Cooper, Canterbury Christ Church University
Helen Garbett, University of the Highlands and Islands, Centre for Island Creativity, Shetland
Rob Hedge, University of Leicester

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The KOKRA FAMILY, line kramer and marjolijn kok
Joel Santos, University of Leicester
Sara Simões, University of Lisbon
Isabel Sturges, University of Oxford
Melissa Thomas, University of York12. States of Being(s): The Politics of Bodies in Archaeology
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Session Abstract:
In the last two decades, the human body has emerged as a rich ﬁeld of theorisation and scholarly
exploration in archaeology. Turns to multispecies archaeologies, material feminism, and postanthropocentrism have provided powerful new tools that cast many of our assumptions about theworld – and our place in it – in a new light. The climate crisis highlights the signiﬁcant vulnerability ofour bodies, the inextricable interdependencies between bodies and landscapes, compost and critters(to speak with Donna Haraway) and our unequal culpability for the current state of the world.
With a focus on bodies in the broadest sense, this session includes papers that explore themultiplicity of bodies from manifold perspectives – be that the physical, literary, or iconographicalbody: from the entanglements of physical bodies and material processes to multispecies bodies;
marginalised bodies, including other-abled, subaltern, and queer states of being; body ontologies;
and politics of the lifecourse. In this session we want to encourage new and creative thinking on
the politics of the body in archaeology, including but not limited to ideas of gender, personhood,and power as they intersect with the bodies of the past, the politics of the excavation andcuration of bodily remains in the present, and the vulnerability of bodies. Ultimately the session
asks: which bodies come to matter – and why?
Organisers: Emma Tollefsen (University of Leiceter), Kate Olley (University of Nottingham),
Melanie Giles (University of Manchester)

9:00

Introduction

9:10

Madeleine Fyles (University of Toronto):
The Oak and the Acorn: Cyclical Bodies and Temporalities of Social
Memory9:30

Renate Larssen and Marianne Hem Eriksen (University of Leicester):
Multispecies Vikings – Disrupting the Human/Non-Human Binary in
Archaeology

9:50

Comfort break

10:00

Brad Marshall (University of Leicester):
The Archaeological Posthuman Child: Exploring a New Approach toStudies of Childhood in the Past

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10:20

José Chessil Dohvehnain Martínez-Moreno (Universidad Nacional
Autónoma de México):
Assembling Bodies: Affect, Gender and More-Than-Human
Personhood

10:40

Discussion: More than human bodies

11:00

Tea/coffee

11:20

John Robb and Jess Thompson (University of Cambridge):
Bodies in Death and Bodies in Art: Different Ways of Constituting
Leaders and Ancestors

11:40

Emma Louise Thompson (University of Leicester):
The Cost of Gendered Death in Viking Age Denmark

12:00

Katherine M. Olley (University of Nottingham), Emma Tollefsen,
Marianne Hem Eriksen and Brad Marshall (University of Leicester):
The Pregnant Body and Archaeologies of Absence

12:20

Discussion: Gender, identity and personhood

12:40

Lunch

13:30

Catherine Jones (University of Manchester) and Matt Hitchcock(University of Leicester):Deep Cuts: Determining the Mark of the Sword on the Body in Later
Prehistoric Britain

13:50

Melanie Giles (University of Manchester):George: The Head from Holderness

14:10

Jess Thompson (University of Cambridge):
Resurrecting Transhuman Ghosts

14:30

Discussion: Power, authority and violence

14:50

Tea/coffee

15:10

Dulcie Newbury (University of Bradford):‘Beyond the Binary’: Funerary Archaeology, Gender Identity, and Its
Impact on Mental Health and Wellbeing23

15:30Aoife Sutton-Butler and Karina Croucher (University of Bradford):Things in Jars: Museum Goers Attitudes Towards the Display of Fluid
Preserved Medical Specimens, the Archaeological Skeleton andMummified Remains

15:50

Comfort break

16:00

Sabrina Authenrieth (Leiden University):

16:20

Bodyscapes: A 3-Body-Solution for a Categorical Problem
Theodore Muscillo (Independent Scholar):

16:40

Voluptuous, Obese, Too Large? Fat Objects in the Archaeological
RecordDiscussion: Ethics and practice

17:00

Closing remarks

13. Past Responses to Climate and Environmental Change Through the Lens ofMythology
Room: NEWSCI 0.02
Session Abstract:24

Archaeology can reveal much about human responses to environmental change, as can
mythology. Whether long-term or rapid-onset, previous ‘adaptation events’ show the scaleand violence of societal responses if impacts are managed badly.
Disentangling the environmental changes behind such narratives as the Biblical Exodus isenlightening about social and political change – and collapse. Climate justice is key:
adaptations could disenfranchise vulnerable members of global society. The 17th-century
witch hunts had a root in societal reactions to a cooler climate. The disappearance of
Doggerland involved both gradual and sudden habitat and lifestyle changes. What
happened to people’s deities? Could Nehalennia, known from Roman-era Dutch altars, have
evolved from an ancient deer-goddess to offer safe sea-passage as the landscape changed?
Could the Norse Gefjon, ploughing Sjæland from Sweden, or Welsh Ladies of the Lake, with
underwater cattle, be memories of the arrival of farming as the land flooded?
Equally, anthropogenic environmental change is not new, just that the scale of today’s
climate change is unprecedented. The coming of agriculture was a massive upheaval, with
habitat change, land-use conflicts, the emergence of city states and new ‘gods of civilisation’.
‘Old-fashioned’ lifestyles were misrepresented, hence the legendary Amazons. Tying
mythological motifs to environmental changes does not devalue the mythology; it brings aricher understanding and allows us to chart the evolution of myths and fit orphan legends
into wider narratives. Understanding past adaptations can warn of dangerous impacts ofclimate change today, from wars to ‘witch hunts’. It is a multi-disciplinary, imaginative
endeavour.
Organiser: Chris Wood (Independent researcher and curator of the Ickney Collection)

14:00

Chris Wood:
Past Responses to Climate and Environmental Change Through theLens of Mythology: An Introduction

14:20

Discussion Q&A

14:30

Micheál Butler (University College Dublin), James Walker and Vince
Gaffney (University of Bradford):

14:50

Climate Change narratives and the long tradition of mythologising
submerged landscapes: a story from, and of, Doggerland
Discussion – Q&A

15:00

Tea/coffee25

15:30Martin Bates (University of Wales Trinity Saint David), Samantha
Brummage (University of Wales Trinity Saint David), Peter Stevenson(Storyteller) and Jake Whittaker:
Through the Myths of Time

15:50

Discussion – Q&A

16:00

Filippa Dobson (Independent Artist and Researcher):Taciturn Cave and the hunting of the Quark: A journey into the void,an excavation of darkness

16:20

Discussion Q&A

16:30

General discussion

17:00

End

14. Grief for the past and for the future: heritage, climate, and decolonisation
Room: NEWSCI 0.01
Session Abstract:
This session will explore the emotional impact and resonance of grief, loss and mourning forarchaeologists and other heritage workers engaging with extractive histories of racialisation,
empire, neocolonialism, and/or the impact of climate change. We’re particularly interested in
the relationship between grieving and our labour. We’re seeking responses that explore
personal experiences of environmental, material and postcolonial grief in museums and26archives, at archaeological field sites, and other heritage spaces. Responses may explore
themes described below, but are not limited to them.
--Feelings of anxiety or loss associated with damage to heritage sites or cultural
materials resulting from climate change, particularly from those working with sites orcollections affected by climate change, or environmental harm.
Grief and resilience in relation to the labour of activism in an institutional context.
Emotional responses from heritage workers who have faced denialism on racism
and/or climate change from audiences.
Grieving media misrepresentation of your work.
Mourning cancelled or indefinitely delayed projects related to themes of social
justice.
Testimonials about changes in professional practice as a result of grief.
Creative responses for complex emotions related to grief, mourning, loss or decay,
including the roles of anger and hope.

Contributions from any discipline are welcomed, including those that might be artistic,cathartic, meditative, and/or geared towards community-building. Personal narratives anddata-driven approaches are welcome, as well as work that combines them. The session will
be hybrid, and proposals from heritage workers in the Global South are very welcome
Organisers: Danika Parikh (University of Cambridge Museums) and Ayesha Fuentes(University of Cambridge Museums)

14:00

Nathalie Cooper (University of Warwick):
Grieving the Unknowable: Object Research as Mourning

14:15

14:30

Simran Kaur (UCL):In Search of the Vanishing Heritage: Combatting Loss of Urban
Archaeological Heritage through Citizen Archaeology in Postcolonial
India
Martin Callanan and Einar Kristensen (NTNU):“The Once was a Mountain Valley………”

14:45

Discussion

15:15

Tea/coffee

15:45

Ayesha Fuentes:
Museum death fetish: Lessons in entropy and the conservation ofmaterial heritage

16:00

Ayesha Fuentes and Danika Parikh:
Grief and creativity workshop

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15. [Re:]Assembling Artefacts for the Anthropocene
Room: NEWSCI 0.05
Geologists attempting to frame the impacts of human activity in terms of the Anthropocene
have essentially rediscovered human-made artefacts as ‘technofossils’ (Zalasiewicz et. al.
2014; 2022) – re-engaging frameworks familiar from the origins of Archaeology. This session
asks how we might engage more recent conceptual developments to reframe ourengagements with, and understandings of, artefacts in response to the challenges of the
Anthropocene.
Over recent years, an escalating series of conceptual developments including various aspectsof post-humanism and the new materialisms, assemblage theory, the ‘ontological turn’ andconsiderations of the animacy and vibrancy of material things have suggested a move28

beyond object biographies and artefact agency towards perspectives on the lives andpowers of things less embedded in contemporary western metaphysics.
In this session, we will include studies of artefacts and assemblages from diverse
geographical and temporal contexts that seek to employ novel theoretical approaches inorder to present fresh perspectives on manufactured material things, whether complex
valuables or mundane everyday items. Achille Mbembe (2021, 88-89) recently combined acall for a return to “big questions” and “deep history” with an appeal to consider thecontinuous topological folds of the whole’. What better starting point than the intersectionof archaeology and geology to attempt to grapple with this topological challenge?
Organisers: Abigail Moffett, Chris Wingfield (both University of East Anglia) and Julian
Thomas (University of Manchester)

14:00

Introduction

14:10

John Robb (University of Cambridge):
Systems, cumulativity and the emergent power of material things

14:25

Abigail Moffett (UEA / University of Cambridge):
Making and assembling beads: reflections from beaded materials in
the Anthropocene
Lewis Jones (University of Manchester):

14:40

A Silent Witness? Examining modern engagements as future heritageat Billinge Beacon, Merseyside

14:55

Discussion

15:10

Matt Edgeworth (University of Leicester):Artefact or technofossil or both? Past and future aspects ofarchaeological objects from modern landfill

15:25

Chris Wingfield (UEA):
Artefacts are not (always) ‘objects’ and (almost) never ‘technofossils’

15:40

Julian Thomas (University of Manchester):Material Things in a More-Than-Human Anthropocene

15:55

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16:10Tea/coffee

16:40

Discussion and roundtable

17:30

End

Tuesday evening 19 December 17:35-24:00
Plenary Session 17:40-18:30 Thomas Paine Lecture Theatre
Keynote:Kristina Douglass, Columbia University, Knowledge Co-production, Climate and Archaeology
Dinner in Vista: 18:45-20:00
Antiquity Quiz: 20:15-21:30 in UEA Union LCR
TAG Party: 21:30-24:00 in UEA Union LCR
Following the Antiquity Quiz, this year's TAG party will warm up with a DJ set from ArchaeodB, before Unofficial Hippocampus (aka John Schofield) presents his annual'Unauthorised Heritage Disco'.
As always, the UHD has something for everyone, but if you have particular requests, pleasemessage John in advance.

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Wednesday morning 20th December 9:00-13:00
16. Environments of Equity, Climates of Work
Full dayRoom: NEWSCI 0.01
Session Abstract:
While many archaeology conferences are turning their attention to the climate, this session
aims to keep equity, diversity and inclusivity on the agenda. It recognises the needs for thoseengaged in EDI to connect with each other and compare notes. The session thus seeks toaddress the current status of work on EDI across the sector, including commercial
archaeology, universities, museums and national cultural institutions. The ultimate goal is toenable EDI leads to refine their work toward making meaningful changes that result ingreater inclusivity and equity for disabled, underrepresented and marginalised people. It
particularly encourages participation from those with lived experience of disability or
minority representation in the fields.
Organiser: Catherine M. Draycott (University of Durham)

9:00

Introduction

9:10

Abigail Hunt, Emily Stammitti, Sarajayne Clements and Alex
Fitzpartick (EAF):

Enabling Archaeology for Everyone: a call to action from the Enabled
Archaeology Foundation
9:30

Kymberley Jones (EAF/Universities of Cardiff and Swansea):

DWP Assistance for Disability Inclusiveness in Archaeological
Employment
9:50

Pen Foreman (CIFA/Historic England):The CIfA-Historic England Inequalities Report
10:10

Cathie Draycott (CIFA/University of Durham):

The CIfA EDI Survey: insights, answers and ambiguities
10:30

Tea/coffee

11:00

Mercedes Baptiste Halliday (Black Archaeo/University of Cambridge):32Black Archaeo: community engagement as a form of social andcultural justice
11:20

Anita Datta and Cathie Draycott (University of Durham):Archaeological Horizons II: moving forward with participant research
into the intersections of interest in archaeology and social groups
11:40

Shantol Campbell and Marvin Demicoli (MOLA):The Emotions of Ethnic Diversity in Archaeology
12:00

Neil Erskine (University of Glasgow):

Socioeconomic Diversity Amongst Ancient Near Eastern
Archaeology Student Cohorts in UK Higher Education
12:20

Discussion

12:40

Lunch

13:40

Stephanie Piper (University of York), Katherine Patton (University ofToronto), Katerina Velentza (University of Helsinki), Lindo Masur(McMaster University):

Changing Climates, Changing Classrooms, Changing Minds: precarityand higher education
14:00

Lu Stanton-Greenwood, Liz Tideswell, David Connolly and Gwilym
Williams (BAJR):

The BAJR Poverty Impact Report: the voices of the 755
14:20

Pen Foreman (CIFA and Historic England):

Change Makers. Historic England's Inclusion Team Projects and theirPotential for Change in the Sector
14:40

Discussion: Action Planning

15:30

End

17. Archaeology Can Save the Future in Africa
Room: NEWSCI 0.04

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Session Abstract:
Climate and climate change are among humanity’s greatest challenges. The climate andhuman adaptation is major research topic in archaeological theory and practise. In Africa, it issub-Saharan areas that has increasing impact, in particular the vulnerable people. We hope todedicate this session to introduce archaeology and its importance to addressing current world
problems. How do archaeologists contribute to sustainable development goals (UNSDGs)? In
general, we hope that this session will address some of the goals of sustainable development
through archaeology. We want to show how we can benefit from past evidence to improve
the present and prepare for the future. Examples of these issues are food security (climate
resilient systems, adapting Africa’s food system to climate change, women in agricultural
practice, past and present, indigenous knowledge and technologies).
We believe that archaeology provides examples of the past that can lead to increase yields
production (lessons from the past). How to make some areas a hub for producing crops that
go beyond the political borders. Water problems for human use, and adaptation to difficult
acute and severe situations (people adaptations to climate in their household organisation,
recycling of agriculture residue, use of palm leaves for various purposes etc.). How hasarchaeology accurately told us about climate change? Our research can help in contextualising
current and future climate change. The use of archaeological models to predict the impact of
future climate change can help us to prepare for climate ahead, not just look back. We needalso to look at the case of the impact of climate change on archaeological sites, on riverine
desert and coastal areas. What archaeologists discovered about climate change in pre historicand historic Sudan, for example. We are inviting our colleagues to address such issues, whether
tackling large area e.g. Sahel, sub-Saharan Africa or specific areas.
Organiser: Intisar Soghayroun (University of Khartoum/ Freelance)

9:00

Introduction

9:10

Nik Petek-Sargeant (University of Cambridge):
Reconsidering the place of archaeology: tangible climate narratives
among Kenya’s Ilchamus community

9:30

Benny Q, Shen (University of Cambridge):

Bees for the Future: A Historical Ecology of Beekeeping on the
9:50

Cherangani Hills, Elgeyo-Marakwet, Kenya
Ahmed Adam (University of Khartoum, USI Switzerland):
Challenges in an arid environment: Some insights from Jebel Moya,
Sudan

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10:00Discussion

10:30

Tea/coffee

11:00

Yahia Fadl Tahir (University of Khartoum):

11:20

Ancient Food Exploitation and Adjustment in Light of Climate
Change: An Archeological Evidence from El Ga’ab Depression
Thembi Russell (University of the Witwatersrand):Underground storage methods among subsistence farmers: present
and past

11:40

Tatenda Tavingeyi (Sapienza Universita di Roma):Protect and Learn from the Past: Using Great Zimbabwe World
Heritage Site as an innovation hub for the Development of Heritagebased Climate Change Solutions

12:00

Discussion and roundtable

13:00

End

18. Questioning Posthumanism: Archaeological Approaches to Climate Change
Room: NEWSCI 0.02
Session Abstract:
Taking direct inspiration from last TAG’s session on Climate Archaeology, we invitepresentations that explore how our discipline can reveal insights into climate change. In
particular, we will explore the potentialities and pitfalls of posthumanist approaches to35

climate change archaeology. For some, posthumanism introduces valuable ideas that canenhance our conceptualisation of climate, while for others, posthumanism might compromise
proper climate research. Here, we aim to confront a multitude of visions to sketch an
improved theoretical approach based on posthumanism that can be applied toarchaeological research on climate. Therefore, we warmly invite posthumanist, antiposthumanist,or

posthumanist-ambivalent

speakers

that

explorearchaeologicalinvestigation into climate change.
Furthermore, we would like to interrogate how approaches based on Human Ecodynamics,
Historical Ecology, and Political Ecology can complement or nuance postulates from flat orsymmetrical ontologies. We are first and foremost interested in complex systems and humanenvironment or human-nonhuman entanglements. All of these approaches, moreover, point tolarge and multiple scales of temporality: temporalities that unite past and present. We invite
serious archaeological investigation into the material remains of both our deep andcontemporary pasts for insights into climate change. Therefore, we also seek proposals that use
Archaeology either to understand the past to ameliorate climate change or that explore
contemporary archaeological records that enhance our understanding of the dynamics
contributing to global warming.
Organisers: Brandon Fathy (University of Reading) and Pablo Barruezo-Vaquero (University ofGranada)9:00

Brandon Fathy and Pablo Barruezo-Vaquero:Introduction

9:10

Peter Campbell (Cranfield University):
Object-Oriented Ecology: Life (and Archaeology) in the Margin ofHyperobjects

9:30

Andrew Bauer (Stanford University):
The Anthropocene as an Event: Posthumanism, Processes, andPolitics

9:50

Sam Challis (University of the Witwatersrand) and Brian Stewart(University of Michigan):Ritual and Social Adaptations to Climate Change in the Neoglacial ofSouthern African Mountains

10:10

Discussion

10:30

Tea/coffee

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11:00Marcy Rockman (University of Maryland):A Response in Responsibility: Archaeology in Relation to Climate
Change

11:20

Andy Hutcheson (UEA):Is this the Road to Hell? Money and its implications in the mid 1st
millennium BCE

11:40

Candace Gossen (Ronin Institute):
2027: Waking the Aku

12:00

Discussion

12:30

End

19. What Belongs in a Museum Belongs to Archaeology: The Perils and Benefits ofStudying Museum Collections in Archaeology and Archaeological Sciences
Room: Julian Study Centre 3.02
Session Abstract:
The intention of this session is to examine the role that museum collections have in current
archaeological research and how they can contribute to archaeological knowledge. We
invite speakers to present instructive case studies that can shed light on the potentials aswell as problematics that characterize collection-based research, welcoming critical and37theoretical considerations that aim to situate their significance and limits for the discipline.
Recently, museum collections have witnessed a renewed attention in archaeology (e.g.,
Finlay 2016). For a long time, museums and their collections had fallen out of mainstreamarchaeology, which had instead become primarily conceived as a field-science, focused on
excavation as the field-practice par excellence. However, museums were the birthplace ofarchaeological studies, as they were home to the first classificatory attempts at artifacts’assemblages, as exemplified by Christian Jürgensen Thomsen’s ‘three- age system’, the firstprehistoric cultural chronology based on his seminal classification of artifact assemblages at
the Royal Museum of Nordic Antiquities in the early 19th century. Moreover, colonial-era
collections were acquired as part of major expeditions that included excavation projects
which served an overarching collecting purpose. Professional archaeologists numberedamong the members of these expeditions, and they were tasked with gaining hold of
antiquities for the benefit of European and North American institutions.
Archaeological practice has deeply changed over intervening years and so have theobjectives and methods guiding museum practices. Archaeologists are now finding novel
ways to investigate historical collections, which span a wide array of research approaches,from revealing silenced indigenous voices to implementing scientific analyses that allow for
new questions and the re-conceptualization of previous classifications and interpretations.
Thus, how can historical museum collections be repurposed to meet the requirements ofcurrent archaeological research? And what archaeological practices can be implemented ina museum setting?
Speakers are invited to critically engage with these questions drawing from their personalresearch as archaeologists and/or museum curators. Whether theoretically conceived as akind of field site (Harrison 2011), as “archaeological archives” (Baird and McFadyen 2014), oras assemblages that can be creatively and constantly re-assembled (Wingfield 2017),
museums and their collections can be and are the object of productive studies. Speakers arealso invited to consider issues inherent to this type of research, which range from artifact
contamination due to conversation practices, the impact of time and climate on materials, thelack of information about the history of collections, to their lingering colonial legacy.
Contributors would ideally present creative and theoretically relevant ways to fruitfully think
about and deal with these aspects.
Organisers: Samuele Tacconi, Anne Haour (UEA) and Helen Anderson (British Museum)
9:00

Samuele Tacconi, Anne Haour and Helen Anderson: Introduction

9:10

Beccy Scott and Sally Fletcher (British Museum):
How to move a museum, archaeological archives and research at the
British Museum

9:30

Ahmed Adam (University of Khartoum):Museum Collections in a time of conflict: Some challenges from
Sudan

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9:50

John P. Walden (Harvard University):
Forming a Cohesive Understanding of the Rise and Fall of a Classic
Maya Polity Through Museum-based Research and ArchaeologicalFieldwork

10:10

Discussion

10:30

Tea/coffee

11:00

Megan Leake (University of Newcastle):
Until the Cows Come Home: The problems and possibilities of usingarchived faunal remains from Anglo-Saxon Jarrow

11:20

Daniel Kumah (University of Ghana):
Digging through Museum collections and archives: Reflections andLessons from Begho, Ghana

11:40

Alice Stevenson (UCL):
Continuous archaeological context: collapsing distinctions between
fieldwork and museum work in archaeology

12:00

Lucrezia Milillo (University of St Andrews):
Beyond record keeping: khipus as assemblages of knowledge

12:20

Abdulmalik Abdulmalik (UEA):
Museum collections are synonymous with archaeological artefacts:
An examination of Dr Stanger's Niger Expedition collections from theWisbech and Fenland Museum, East Anglia, United Kingdom

12:40

Discussion

13:00

Lunch

14:00

Nathaniel Thomas Sydenham (University of Edinburgh):
Neil Gordon Munro: The Role and Responsibility of Museums in theCare of Indigenous Ancestral Remains, a case study

14:20

Steven Matthews (German Archaeological Institute):
Legacy collections: A vital ingredient in studying sub-Saharan African
foodways

14:40

Charlotte Woods (University of Cambridge):39

Whose nature are we conserving anyway?: Archaeological objectivity,
the construction of the idea of nature in museums and theperpetuation of climate injustice
15:00

Discussion

15:30

End

20. From Bogs to Beaches: Navigating Water(scapes) in the Past and Present
Room: NEWSCI 0.05
Session Abstract:
Waterscapes are environments which are natural, and constructed; they can divide, as well as
bridge communities; and they can be destructive, yet vulnerable. These liminal and fluid spaces
are the battlelines of a rapidly changing climate and can offer insight into how past humaninteraction has understood and responded to these changes, as well as contemporary
perceptions of them. These environments can transcend everyday life and can be deeply
imbued with ritual and symbolic meaning. How do we navigate these complex waters withincontemporary practice? And what are the challenges and opportunities by doing so?
This session will investigate how various waterscapes can inform thinking about climate inarchaeology, as well as people's engagement with their past and present environment. How
do current populations interact with these watery spaces? How has the relationship between

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people and these various waterscapes changed over time? How can past evidence ofinteractions with waterscapes change our current relationship with these liminal spaces?
Organisers: Alison Norton (Canterbury Christ Church University), Grace Conium-Parsonage,(Canterbury Christ Church University/Museum of London Archaeology), Angie Majnic-Lane,(Canterbury Christ Church University), Lara Band (Independent Researcher)

9:00

Introduction

9:10

Katerina Velentza (University of Helsinki):Through the eyes of a boatbuilder: Uncovering local knowledge of
the Aegean Sea environment through maritime cultural heritage

9:30

Mark Harrison (Historic England/University of Kent):
Timescapes and Waterscapes of the North Kent Coast

9:50

Jay Ingate (Canterbury Christ Church University):
Calcareous Kent: rediscovering importance of our sacred chalk waters

10:10

Discussion

10:30

Tea/coffee

11:00

Katherine Watson (Swansea University):
Lessons from Contested Seascapes: Fishing, Sewage Disposal andSeaside Tourism in South Wales

11:20

Grace Conium Parsonage (Canterbury Christ Church
University/MOLA):
Shifting sands: Kentish coastal communities in transition

11:40

Discussion

12:00

End

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21. Archaeological Theory in Dialect: rethinking narratives in archaeology throughaccents, language, and communication

Room: NEWSCI 0.06
Session Abstract:
English is the lingua franca, not only for academia but also for almost all international
infrastructures and global communications. It comes as no surprise then that the dominant
and assumed normative voice in archaeology is standard British English (SBE) for narrativesof various times and places. This language is ‘majoritarian’- by this we don’t mean that it isspoken by most of humanity but that it is the imposed “ideal” others are measured againstand that is an issue.
Categories, terms, and ways of interpretation are all done from a privileged majoritarian
position. These do not translate and are certainly not applicable in all the different places
where archaeology takes place. But unfortunately, this is mostly the case for archaeologists
from Asia, Africa, and Latin America who are forced to use these narratives to make theirresearch 'valuable' or to translate their own theories to be able to have a voice in theacademic world. This majoritarian notion is further echoed when considering the inherent
disproportionate impacts communities in these areas face due to climate change.
In this session, we want to explore the different ways we can harness regional dialects,

42language, and forms of communication to undermine and disrupt the majoritarian status of
SBE as the normative voice of archaeological narratives. We welcome papers thatexperiment with these concepts and look to forge new narratives in archaeology. As Adkins(2015, 17) highlights, ‘Everyday usage, borrowings from other languages, literature, andslang continually disturb the stability of a major language’.
Organisers: Brodhie Molloy, Judith López Aceves, and Jonny Graham (all University ofLeicester)

9:00

Brodhie Molloy, Judith López Aceves, and Jonny Graham:
Introduction

9:05

Judith López Aceves and Brodhie Molloy (both University ofLeicester):
Ey, Ay? What are the implications of AI technology for research/knowledge production and consumption?

9:25

Aldo Accinelli (University of Amsterdam):
Can equivocations be controlled in archaeology?

9:45

Matthew Johnson (Northwestern University):
Archaeological theory in translation: some reﬂections

10:05

Discussion

10:15

Tea/coffee

10:45João Sequeira (Universidade do Minho) and Tânia Casimiro(University of Lisbon):"I thought British policy was make the world England? Sir." British
Industrial Archaeology concepts in Portugal

11:05

Jonny Graham (University of Leicester):Gannin’ hyem: Geordie dialect, the virtual, and Neolithic South
Shields (Pre-recorded paper)43

11:25

Marianne Hem Eriksen (University of Leicester), Eva Mol(University of York), Þóra Pétursdóttir (University ofOslo):
Found in translation: towards a richer archaeologicallanguage

11:45

Questions

11:55

Discussion

12:55

End

22. Repetition, repetition, repetition: archaeological applications of repetition beyond thenormative
Room: Julian Study Centre 1.02
Session Abstract:
At the last TAG conference, we held a session examining archaeological approaches todifference. This time around, we aim to consider applications of a related concept: repetition.
In Difference and Repetition, Deleuze radically rethought both concepts. Difference was nolonger a measure of lack between terms but became an affirmative and productive force.
Similarly, repetition is now productive. A repetition isn’t a copy that could be swapped foranother – a production of the same – but more a ‘reflection’, ‘echo’, ‘double’, or ‘soul’(Deleuze 1994, 1). Your reflection cannot replace you, and in the very ways that it is not you
it emphasises your uniqueness, your singular existence (Hagen 2013). Creativity andtransformation results from the repeated production of difference in this way; in other words:‘To repeat is to begin again; to affirm the power of the new and the unforeseeable’ (Parr
2010, 225).
We see huge potential for archaeological engagements with repetition in this sense. Twoclosely related handaxes can resemble one another, but they are not copies, they haveunique lives. Constructing a house at Çatalhöyük where one previously stood is not the44

production of the same house, but a repetition, with its own immanent properties andrelations. Similarly, ‘climate change’ is not an event that comes from nowhere but is only
observable because of many repetitions of difference. In this session, we welcome papers
that explore repetition beyond its conventional understanding as repetition of the same.
Organisers: Jonny Graham and Andy Rogers (both University of Leicester)
9:00

Jonny Graham and Andy Rogers:
Introduction

9:05

Andy Rogers:
Repetition-for-itself in the indigenous Caribbean

9:25

Jonny Graham:
The same Wold story? Communities of difference at Rudston Wold

9:45

Ben Jervis (University of Leicester):
Repetition, persistence and generality: problematising the enduranceof medieval urbanity

10:05

Questions

10:15

Tea/coffee

10:45

Kevin Kay (University of Leicester):
Revivals: Going back to the way things used to be in Neolithic
Turkey11:05

Crain N. Cipolla (Tufts University), Rachel J. Crellin and Oliver J.T.
Harris (University of Leicester):Live, die, repeat; archaeology for today and tomorrow

11:25

Kelly Davies (Cardiff University):
CTRL+C and CTRL+V? Thinking about hillforts as arepeated phenomenon

11:45

Kirsty Lilley and Lusia Zaleskaya (University of Edinburgh):
Repeat after me: exploring similarity and variation in Later Neolithic
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José Chessil Dohvehnain Martínez-Moreno (Universidad Nacional
Autónoma de México-UNAM):
The power of repetition and rock art.
(Virtual Presentation)

12:25

Discussion

13:00

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Wednesday afternoon 20th December 14:00-17:30
23. How can archaeologists take climate action?
Room: NEWSCI 0.04
Session Abstract:
Discussions surrounding the impact of climate change on archaeology and heritage havelargely focussed on preservation and adaptation of monuments and collections, with policies
being developed to address these issues at both national and international levels. We now
recognise archaeology’s contribution to the Anthropocene. Museums and other cultural
institutions are moving towards net zero and some have divested from fossil fuelsponsorship.
How can we, as individuals, within our institutions, and collectively as representatives of thediscipline, take climate action? Can we take an ethical stance on the work we do? How can
we create a just transition away from the destructive commercial sector which enables
increased fossil fuel usage and degradation of the natural environment? How can museums
and heritage professionals teach sustainable development through their collections andsubjects? How and when do archaeologists become activists?
Further than this, concepts of going beyond sustainability and developing regenerativearchaeologies are beginning to emerge as a topic of debate. Can we create a genuinely
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Organisers: Natasha Harlow (University of Nottingham), Daniël van Helden (University ofLeicester), Sarah Scoppie (State Office for Cultural Heritage, Regional Council Stuttgart)

14:00

Introduction

14:10

Daniël van Helden:
Archaeological Climate Action? Navel-gazing a way forward

14:30

Nina Crummy (University of Reading):
Archaeology and Plastics

14:50

Discussion

15:10

Tea/coffee

15:40

Natasha Harlow (University of Nottingham):“No-Dig” Archaeology? Resistance and regeneration inarchaeological practice.

16:00

Sarah Scoppie (Regional Council Stuttgart):
World Heritage and Sustainable Development – Partners against
crime or long-standing nemeses?

16:20

Discussion

17:00-17:30

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24. On the Wetland’s Edge: Iron Age Settlements, Environments and Cultural Interactions.
Room: NEWSCI 0.02
Session Abstract:
Wetlands form an integral aspect of the study of the Iron Age. As archaeologists, they offer
us the potential for incredible preservation of organic artefacts, human remains and ecofacts
which can provide insights into entire past landscapes. Beyond this, they provide evidence
for activities in the Iron Age which were restricted to the context of these environments. The
development of settlements on the frontier of wetland offers us the chance to explore
economic, social, cultural and symbolic relationships between site and landscape.
This session invites a range of presenters to showcase some of the recent discoveries anddevelopments in theory surrounding the diverse range of Iron Age settlement types locatedon the wetland’s edge. Focusing on the dynamic interaction between societies and theirenvironmental contexts, it investigates how Iron Age communities adapted to and exploitedwetland environments and formed cultural identities. By integrating archaeological evidence
and interdisciplinary approaches, this session aims to unravel the complex relationships
between Iron Age settlements, their surrounding environments, and the cultural dynamics
which shaped their development.
Organisers: Theo Reeves and Freddie James (both University of Birmingham)

14:00

Introduction

14:10

Theo Reeves (University of Birmingham):
A Great British Marsh-fort Programme? How interpretive
categorisations can benefit our understanding of Iron Age wetland
enclosures

14:30

Mark Hoyle (AOC Archaeology):
Reconstructing an Iron Age Crannog

14:50

Sheridan Clements (Cardiff University):
Building or Burying the Past? Memory in the Iron Age Fens

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15:10Discussion

15:30

Tea/coffee

16:00

Tiffany Treadway (Pontypridd Museum):
The mnemonic and cognitive functions of British Iron Age deposition
practice in Wales and Scotland

16:20

Melanie Giles (University of Manchester):‘Enchanted garments’ from the bog

16:40

Discussion

17:00-17:30

End

TAG National Committee Annual Meeting
13:00-15:00
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