Programme
WelcomeWelcome to UEA Climate TAG 2023! We are thrilled to be hosting TAG at UEA for the firsttime. This year’s theme is Climate, befitting for a UEA hosted conference. TAG was formed
as a national body in 1979 to promote debate and discussion of issues in theoreticalarchaeology. It has often been at the forefront of debate in archaeology. We are proud tobe carrying the TAG torch this year and contributing to the ongoing sets of debates anddiscussions so strongly associated with it.
Climate UEAThis year’s conference will be wide ranging in its exploration of both the archaeology ofclimate change, its material and social implications, and theoretical issues in archaeology
perhaps not so closely related to climate change. We are building on the University’s wellacknowledged focus on climate change, as well as research and teaching strengths in thefields of archaeology and heritage. The small number of archaeologists at UEA have madesignificant contributions to the discipline over decades. Archaeology has been a strong
component of Humanities research output for many years, with particularly significant
contributions to landscape studies, Japanese archaeology, African archaeology and more
recently, the impact of climate change on heritage. All of us work in interdisciplinary
contexts, making the nature of the archaeological work conducted at UEA rather unique.
Colleagues conduct research and train students in collaboration with mathematicians,
media practitioners, anthropologists, engineers, and climate scientists.
Organising Committee
Dr Andy Hutcheson, Professor Anne Haour, Dr Lorna Jane Richardson, Professor
Simon Kaner, Professor Jago Cooper, Professor George Lau, Dr Nick Brooks, Samuele
Tacconi1

Sponsors2

Acknowledgements
The organising committee thank UEA Conferences for all the hard work they have put into
hosting this year’s conference, particularly Anna-Marie Moody and Kathryn Downes. We
would also like to thank Professor Sarah Barrow, Pro Vice Chancellor of the Faculty of Artsand Humanities, for all her support. A special thanks also to our UEA Climate TAG
volunteers: Anna Rubinstein, William Bostock, Ema Hirohashi, John Garner, Kelsey
Middleditch, Hollie Paine, Oliver Cropley, Sofia Tororenko, Khalfan Ahamed, Cristina
Fernades, Yoanna, Dimitrova, Na’Ankwat Kwapnoe-Dakup, Aisha Muhammad, Amelie
Jaspart, Gold Akanbi, Abigail Moffett, Samuele Tacconi and Anna Freed.

Notes for speakers and participants
Speakers are requested to send their presentations to the lead session organiser. Session
organisers will be given assistance in collating the session presentations by a TAG volunteer.
All presentations should be supplied in Power-point format.
Steaming links to sessions will follow and will be supplied to all participants. These willconsist of Teams links. Please do not share these links beyond the conference as this will
potentially cause disruption of sessions.

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

1. An Archaeology Committed to the Future: From the Social andEnvironmental Value of 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 researchand practice, 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 thegap between archaeological theory and development-led practices, to explore how they canboth contribute towards a more sustainable 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 theoretical archaeology, and an increasingly precarious
commercial practice, that struggles to include social or sustainable values in the agenda? How
can we bring theoretical archaeology to the forefront of development-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
the development-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
13:15

13:30

Introduction to the session by Guillermo Diaz, Sadie Watson, andAlice Clough
Neil Redfern (Council for British Archaeology,) The CBA at 80 –Reflecting on the interface between commercial and grassrootsarchaeology in developing sustainable practice in the future.
Sadie Watson (MOLA), Archaeology today and tomorrow. Whatchanges do we want to see, and what changes do we fear?

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13:45

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

14:00

Discussion slot and questions for the first half of the 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 non-linear
time-space in development-led archaeology.

15:15

Ana González San Martín (Brown University), The making ofarchaeological theory: between the ivory tower and the coffee
break.

15:30

Guillermo Diaz de Liaño (MOLA), Once upon a time… we looked
South. From archaeology today to tomorrow’s archaeology inthree acts.

15:45

Discussion slot for second half of the session

16:00

General Discussion and Final Remarks

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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
and contribute to a more inclusive landscape discipline that brings nature into
archaeological work and provides a historical dimension to ecological approaches? And how
might an attention to landscape in four dimensions address our anxieties about
environmental change and help generate more sustainable places for people and otherspecies? This session invites contributions presenting theoretical approaches,
methodologies, case studies or creative responses to inform a transdisciplinary landscapearchaeology.
Organiser: Jonathan Last (Historic England)
14:00

Jonathan Last, Introduction: towards an ‘archaeoecology’ oflandscape

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 theconviviality of action

15:10

Stewart Bryant (Independent Researcher), Along the way and on theedge: the case for a holistic approach to research 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 with company: creative archaeology oflandscapes, in and for the Anthropocene (a film and paper)

16:00

Discussion

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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 morefriendly locations. Others have abandoned certain lifestyles or cultural practices, such as
culinary ways, in the face of boisterous climate crises. How is climate change perceived
among the indigenous 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 fromscholars in Archaeology, Anthropology, Geography, Palynology and other disciplines todiscuss 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 the Transformation 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 oncoastal historic communities: case study of Badagry inSouthwestern Nigeria

13:30

Patience Nanep Ladan (University of Bokkos), Historical Archaeologyof Climate-Induced Human Migration in the Adjourning Lowlandsof the Jos Plateau

13:45

Discussion

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14:15Tea/coffee

14:45

Albert Larbi Appiah (University of Ghana), 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), Effectsof 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, andPilgrimage within The Moroccan Jewish Diaspora

15:45

Sara Simões, Ana Maria Costa, Cláudia Oliveira, João Tereso, Mariada Conceição Freitas, Maria da Conceição Lopes, Patrícia Mendes,
Rui Gomes Coelho, Rute Arvela, Sandra Domingues Gomes, andSónia Gabrie (University of Lisbon), The environmental impacts ofslavery in two different regions of the Atlantic 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 havethe data, 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 andchange the Cultural Heritage Sector by Areti Galani and Gabriella Arrigoni (Newcastle
University) and their partners at the Copenhagen School of Design and Technology.
Grounded in critical theory, speculative design, while future-oriented, is not about
predicting the future. Leveraging collective intelligence its purpose is to suspend presentday constraints in order to ask questions about the politics and values in the sociotechnicalsystems that we currently experience (or might want to experience in the future) bycreating an imagined world configured differently from our own. It is speculative in that it
re-imagines the world to be organized into different social, political, economic, andtechnological 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 andcapacities to provide a starting point for a strategic sectorial response to climate change.
Organisers: Lorna Jane Richardson (UEA) and Claire Boardman (University of York)10

5. The mulQscale 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
have already been made and aim to define an event as relating to something that happened
in a certain 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), Consideration on the creationand development of spaces with a focus on Ano-greenhouse

14:00

Discussion

14:30

Tea/coffee

15:00

Jesus Martin Alonso (University of Amsterdam), Diggin asimulacrum: fake temporality in the abandoned film set of Golden
City (Madrid)

15:20

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

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15:40

Jiajing (Iris) Mo (Durham University), Flourishing along theHimalayas: 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 –Professor David Maguire - Vice Chancellor’s welcome
Professor Sarah Barrow, Pro-Vice Chancellor’s welcome - Faculty of Arts and Humanixes. 17:00-17:10

KeynoteThomas Paine Lecture Theatre –Professor Joanne Clarke, Archaeology, heritage and climate change: how recent research is
influencing international policy agendas-17:10-17:55
Outstanding contribution to archaeological theory prize to be awarded to Professor Colin
Renfrew – 17:55-18:15
Wine reception and dinner in Sainsbury Centre – Modern Life Café drinks followed bydinner – 18:00-21:30

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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, and new animism in archaeology
Living Area of the Sainsbury Centre (Meet 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.
There are many ways to think about past, present, and potential animacy and we encourage
creative approaches. The session will take place at the Sainsbury Centre, a museum that
understands artefacts as being alive (Cooper et al. 2023). When you arrive at the front deskof the museum you will be told that the collection is considered to be living entities. The
Centre likes visitors to meet them much like they might another human being rather than an
inanimate object and tries to establish to build these different relationships through a seriesof experimental and practical ways. The session invites people to share their thoughts andideas either through regular papers or as we walk through the gallery and meet the artefacts
currently within the Living Area. People can browse the collection beforehand to pick aparticular work to engage with that might be on display. Papers and contributions can be
anywhere between 5-20mins.
References:

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Cooper, J. et al. 2023, Sainsbury Centre announces ground-breaking new museum concept
to mark its 50th Anniversary
Harvey, G., 2017. If not all stones are alive: radical relationality in animism studies. Journal
for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture 11, 481–97
Mol, E. (2023). New Materialism and Posthumanism in Roman Archaeology: When Objects
Speak for Others. Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 1-15
Tănăsescu, M. (2020). Rights of Nature, Legal Personality, and Indigenous Philosophies.
Transnational Environmental Law, 9(3), 429-453
Wilkinson, D., 2017. Is there such a thing as animism? Journal of the American Academy ofReligion 85, 289–311.
Organisers: Eva Mol (University of York) and Jago Cooper (Sainsbury Centre, UEA)
10:00

Jago Cooper (Sainsbury Centre), Introduction – Living Art in theMuseum.

10:15

Eva Mol (Univeristy of York), Introduction – ‘There’s a spirit within’;
how are the past and the future aided by animism.

10:30

Chris Wood (Independent Researcher), ‘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’ ofthings 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 participants in
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:
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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 climate change
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Session abstract to follow
Organisers: Joanne Clarke (UEA) and Nick Brooks (Independent Researcher)
13:00

Nick Brookes, Archaeology and the climate crisis. How canarchaeology help us think about and respond to climate disruption
in the 21st 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 of inundating landscapes on hunter-gatherers inNorthwest Europe and its meaning
Discussion

14:30

Tea/coffee

15:00

Bolaji Owoseni (University of Cambridge), Researching during theCovid-19 Pandemic in Ilorin Nigeria: some experiences and lessons
in the field.

15:20

Discussion

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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 witharchaeological objects, sites and landscapes can provide a sense of value and help toestablish notions and feelings of stewardship towards both human and non-human aspectsof place. Theoretically one reason for this may be the dissolving or converging of the
Cartesian dichotomy culture / nature and much unnecessary transactional and hierarchicalbaggage attendant in that structure.
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
can then be factored into the practice of community archaeology, particularly throughcreative 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 ofSouthampton) and Andy Hutcheson (Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts andCulture, UEA)
9:00

Introduction

9:05

Carenza Lewis (University of Lincoln), New perspectives on therelationship between heritage and wellbeing

9:25

Timothy Darvill (Bournemouth University), Scaling-up Human Henge:
Ancient landscapes and mental health well-being

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9:40
9:55

Neil Redfern (CBA), The Wellbeing and Heritage Working Group:
Creating a Community of 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 Culture

11:00

Guided visit to either UEA Broad or the Sainsbury Centre with afocus 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 ofcommunities embarked on archaeology at Arminghall Henge andWarham Camp Hillfort.

14:15

Chris Smith (Restoration Trust), Thoughts on taking part in acommunity 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

15:45

Hearing from the students who participated

16:00

Alice Jaspers (University of Southampton) Playing by the book: theBook 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 andwellbeing1716:45

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

17:00

Chris Elmer (University of Southampton), A hot topic; disruption anddilemma during a climate crisis

17:15

Discussion

17:30

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9. Temporalities, ontologies and teaching and learning: archaeology toaddress global challenges
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Session abstract
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 invite 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)? These are just a few “starters for ten”, and we invite speakers to look toapproaches from across the many theoretical traditions to inform their papers.
Because this session is about teaching and learning we warmly welcome papers from people
at all stages of their archaeological career – if you are a student, come and tell us how it is,and how it should be! If you are a new Teaching Assistant come and share your innovations
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working well and what is there still to learn? This will be a non-judgemental, safe space todiscuss the role of theory in our teaching and learning of archaeologies of climate change
and beyond. It will complement the session on archaeology and contemporary value. Papers
will be invited to contribute to a forthcoming edited volume.
References
Cipolla, C.N., Quinn, J. and Levy, J., 2019. Theory in collaborative indigenous archaeology:
Insights from Mohegan. American Antiquity, 84(1), pp.127-142.
Cobb, H., & Crellin, R. (2022). Affirmation and Action: A Posthumanist Feminist Agenda for
Archaeology. Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 32(2), 265-279.
doi:10.1017/S0959774321000573
Cobb, H., & Croucher, K. (2020). Assembling Archaeology: Teaching, practice and research.
Oxford University Press.
Mol, E. (2021) ‘Trying to Hear with the Eyes’: Slow Looking and Ontological Difference in
Archaeological Object Analysis, Norwegian Archaeological Review, 54:1-2, 80-99, DOI:
10.1080/00293652.2021.1951830
Pétursdóttir, Þ., 2020. Anticipated futures? Knowing the heritage of drift
matter. International Journal of Heritage Studies, 26(1), pp.87-103.
Pétursdóttir, Þ., 2017. Climate change? Archaeology and anthropocene. Archaeologicaldialogues, 24(2), pp.175-205
Organisers: Hannah Cobb (University of Manchester) and Karina Croucher (University ofBradford)
9:00

Hannah Cobb and Karina Croucher, Introduction

9:10

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

9:30

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

9:50

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

10:10

H Mia Coe and Krupa Sayania (University of Bradford), Learningarchaeology and global challenges: a student perspective

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10:30Tea/coffee

11:00

Lorna Richardson (UEA), ‘Do Different’: Interdisciplinarity at a Timeof Crisis

11:20

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

11:40

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

12:00

Hannah Cobb (University of Manchester) and Karina Croucher(University of Bradford), Discussant: Eva Mol (University of York),
The great how-we-teach-global-challenges challenge! Workshop,
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 andmemories; on the archaeological site as a defined unit. Narratives built in this way may
revolve around centres or essences—‘what was this place like?’—reinforcing the tacit
notion that settlements are integral places with entrenched histories and character.
Questions of movement may remain secondary, or unasked: ‘what was coming in; goingout; 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, unhome-like or unwanted: in Auge’s (1992) words, ‘non-places’. Non-places are defined by
how we move 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.

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We invite papers that reimagine settlements’ histories with non-places as defining features.
This may include:• The literal edges and boundaries of settlements, their hinterlands, and how
movement through these spaces textured settled life
• Spaces entangled with settlements at a distance, e.g. through extractive activities• 'Edges within' settlements: non-places that disrupt our sense of settlements as
integral or monolithic, such as tips, infrastructure hubs, homeless encampments
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 – Dissonanceand 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
Africa12:00Héloïg Barbel (Université Laval), “There’s no place on earth likehome”: engaging with decolonial epistemologies throughcommunity-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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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 andAnthropocene 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 theconference each participant will research the multiple narratives and landscapes ofsomething 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 tohear their stories about the world and its condition.
With 20 workshop places available, the process will also include up to three preparatory
meetings online in the run-up to TAG2023 to meet collaborators, share choices, brainstorm
and develop ideas together.
No prior experience in the arts is required. The session is intended for anyone who- seeks practical experience of combining archaeological understanding with the arts
to stir human responses to climate change- is interested in archaeological/art methodologies and collaborative social practice- appreciates a friendly, supportive environment to try something new, experimental
and collaborative.
Dixon, J. (2018) ‘Archaeology and Art.’ C. Smith (ed) Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology, 1-7

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Donald, A. and Gorman, A. (2016) From Aerospace to Everyday Life: the Trajectory of Cable
Ties [online] http://zoharesque.blogspot.com/2016/08/from-aerospace-to-everydaylife.html (viewed 21 May 2023)
Newland, C. (2022) ‘The Tools of Empire?’ Industrial Archaeology Review 44(2), 80-95
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
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 York

12.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
the world – and our place in it – in a new light. The climate crisis highlights the signiﬁcantvulnerability of our 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 invites papers that explore the multiplicity
of bodies from manifold perspectives – be that the physical, literary, or iconographical body: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 in24archaeology, including but not limited to ideas of gender, personhood, and power as theyintersect with the bodies of the past, the politics of the excavation and curation 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 Memory

9:30

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 to Studies ofChildhood in the Past

10:20

José Chessil Dohvehnain Martínez-Moreno (Universidad Nacional
Autónoma de México), Assembling Bodies: Affect, Gender andMore-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 Leadersand 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

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13:30Catherine Jones (University of Manchester) and Matt Hitchcock(University of Leicester), Deep Cuts: Determining the Mark of theSword 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 Wellbeing

15:30

Aoife 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
and Mummified Remains

15:50

Comfort break

16:00

Sabrina Authenrieth (Leiden University), Bodyscapes: A 3-BodySolution for a Categorical Problem

16:20

Theodore Muscillo (Independent Scholar), Voluptuous, Obese, Too
Large? Fat Objects in the Archaeological Record

16:40

Discussion – Ethics and practice

17:00

Closing remarks

13.Past Responses to Climate and Environmental Change Through theLens of Mythology
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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:26

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 lifestylechanges. 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 thelandscape 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 ofcivilisation’. ‘Old-fashioned’ lifestyles were misrepresented, hence the legendary Amazons.
Tying mythological motifs to environmental changes does not devalue the mythology; itbrings a richer 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 of climate 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 the Lens of Mythology: An Introduction

14:20

Discussion – Q&A

14:30

Micheál Butler (University College Dublin), James Walker and Vince
Gaffney (University of Bradford), Climate Change narratives and thelong tradition of mythologising submerged landscapes: a story
from, and of, Doggerland

14:50

Discussion – Q&A

15:00

Tea/coffee

15:30

Martin 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 Caveand the hunting of the Quark: A journey into the void, an
excavation of darkness27

16:20Discussion Q&A

16:30

General discussion

17:00

End

14.Grief for the past and for the future: heritage, climate, anddecolonisation
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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 andpostcolonial grief in museums and 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
or collections 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 Mourning28

14:15

Simran Kaur (UCL), In Search of the Vanishing Heritage: Combatting
Loss of Urban Archaeological Heritage through Citizen Archaeology
in Postcolonial India

14:30

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 theconservation of material heritage

16:00

Ayesha Fuentes and Danika Parikh, Grief and creativity workshop

16:30

End

15.[Re:]Assembling Artefacts for the Anthropocene
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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
aspects of post-humanism and the new materialisms, assemblage theory, the ‘ontologicalturn’ and considerations of the animacy and vibrancy of material things have suggested amove 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 a call for a return to “big questions” and“deep history” with an appeal to consider the continuous topological folds of the whole’.
What better starting point than the intersection of archaeology and geology to attempt tograpple with this topological challenge?
References

29Mbembe, Achille (2021) Out of the Dark Night. Columbia.
Zalasiewicz, J., Williams, M., Waters, C. N., Barnosky, A. D., & Haff, P. (2014). The
technofossil record of humans. The Anthropocene Review, 1(1), 34–
43. https://doi.org/10.1177/2053019613514953
Zalasiewicz, J, P K Haff, M Edgeworth, J Ivar do Sul, D Richter (2022) The Technofossil
Record: Where Archaeology and Paleontology Meet. In: Rosol C and Rispoli G (eds)
Anthropogenic Markers: Stratigraphy and Context, Anthropocene Curriculum. Berlin: Max
Planck Institute for the History of Science. DOI: 10.58049/e1bg-ab83
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 theemergent power of material things

14:25

Abigail Moffett (UEA / University of Cambridge), Making andassembling beads: reflections from beaded materials in the
Anthropocene

14:40

Lewis Jones (University of Manchester), A Silent Witness? Examining
modern engagements as future heritage at Billinge Beacon,
Merseyside

14:55

Discussion

15:10

Matt Edgeworth (University of Leicester), Artefact or technofossil orboth? Past and future aspects of archaeological objects frommodern 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

Discussion

16:10

Tea/coffee

16:40

Discussion and roundtable -discussant to be confirmed30

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Tuesday evening 19th December 17:35-24:00
Plenary Session 17:40-18:30 Thomas Paine Lecture Theatre
Keynote:17:40 Karina Croucher (University of Bradford) and Hannah Cobb (Universityof Manchester) Shooting for the stars: The future of teaching and learning inarchaeology and heritage.
17:50 Keynote - KrisQna Douglass, Columbia University, Knowledge CoproducQon, Climate and Archaeology
Dinner in Vista – 18:45-20:00
Antiquity Quiz – 20:15-21:30 – in the LCR
TAG Party 21:30-24:00 – in the LCR

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Wednesday morning 20th December 9:00-13:00
16.Environments of Equity, Climates of Work
Full day
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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
those engaged in EDI to connect with each other and compare notes. The session thus seeks
to address 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 toaction 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 ofCambridge), Black Archaeo: community engagement as a form ofsocial and cultural justice

11:20

Anita Datta and Cathie Draycott (University of Durham),Archaeological Horizons II: moving forward with participant

32research into the intersections of interest in archaeology and socialgroups
11:40

Shantol Campbell and Marvin Demicoli (MOLA), The Emotions ofEthnic 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: precarity and 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 their Potential for Change in
the Sector

14:40

Discussion: Action Planning

15:30

End

17.Archaeology can save the future in Africa
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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
is sub-Saharan areas that has increasing impact, in particular the vulnerable people.
We hope to dedicate 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 is food security (climate Resilient systems, adapting Africa’s food system to climate change, women in
agricultural practise, past and present, indigenous knowledge and technologies) We believethat archaeology provides examples of the past that can lead to increase yields production33

(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 andsevere situations (people adaptations to climate in their household organisation, recycling ofagriculture residue, use of palm leaves for various purposes etc.). How has archaeology
accurately told us about climate change? Our research can help in contextualising current andfuture climate change. The use of archaeological models to predict the impact of futureclimate change can help us to prepare for climate ahead, not just look back. We need also tolook 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 historic andhistoric 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 theplace 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 Cherangani Hills, ElgeyoMarakwet, Kenya

9:50

Ahmed Adam (University of Khartoum, USI Switzerland), Challenges
in an arid environment: Some insights from Jebel Moya, Sudan

10:00

Discussion

10:30

Tea/coffee

11:00

Yahia Fadl Tahir (University of Khartoum), Ancient Food Exploitation
and Adjustment in Light of Climate Change: An Archeological
Evidence from El Ga’ab Depression

11:20

Thembi Russell (University of the Witwatersrand), Undergroundstorage 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 aninnovation hub for the Development of Heritage-based Climate
Change Solutions34

12:00Discussion and roundtable

13:00

End

18.QuesQoning Posthumanism: Archaeological Approaches to Climate
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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 toclimate 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 explore archaeologicalinvestigation 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
to large 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 (Universityof Granada)
9:00

Brandon Fathy and Pablo Barruezo-Vaquero, Introduction

9:10

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

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9:30

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

9:50

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

10:10

Discussion

10:30

Tea/coffee

11:00

Marcy 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 andBenefits of Studying Museum Collections in Archaeology andArchaeological Sciences
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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 andtheoretical 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 assemblages36

at the Royal Museum of Nordic Antiquities in the early 19th century. Moreover, colonialera collections were acquired as part of major expeditions that included excavation
projects which served an overarching collecting purpose. Professional archaeologists
numbered among 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),
or as 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
are also 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, the lack of information about the history of collections, to their lingering colonial
legacy. Contributors would ideally present creative and theoretically relevant ways tofruitfully 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 atime of conflict: Some challenges from Sudan

9:50

John P. Walden (Harvard University), Forming a Cohesive
Understanding of the Rise and Fall of a Classic Maya Polity ThroughMuseum-based Research and Archaeological Fieldwork

10:10

Discussion

10:30

Tea/coffee

11:00

Megan Leake (University of Newcastle), Until the Cows Come Home:
The problems and possibilities of using archived faunal remains
from Anglo-Saxon Jarrow3711:20Daniel KUMAH (University of Ghana), Digging through Museum
collections and archives: Reflections and Lessons from Begho,
Ghana

11:40

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

12:00

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

12:20

Abdulmalik Abdulmalik (UEA), Museum collections are synonymouswith archaeological artefacts: An examination of Dr. Stanger's
Niger Expedition collections from the Wisbech 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 the Care 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), Whose nature are we
conserving anyway?: Archaeological objectivity, the construction of
the idea of nature in museums and the perpetuation of climate
injustice

15:00

Discussion

15:30

End

20.From Bogs to Beaches: Navigating Water(scapes) in the Past andPresent
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Waterscapes are environments which are natural, and constructed; they can divide, as wellas bridge communities; and they can be destructive, yet vulnerable. These liminal and fluid
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spaces are the battlelines of a rapidly changing climate and can offer insight into how pasthuman interaction 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 relationshipbetween people and these various waterscapes changed over time? How can past evidence
of interactions 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 Affiliation (Independent Researcher)
9:00

Introduction

9:10

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

9:30

Mark Harrison (Historic England/University of Kent), Timescapes andWaterscapes 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 and Seaside Tourism in South
Wales

11:20

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

11:40

Discussion

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21.Archaeological Theory in Dialect: rethinking narraQves in archaeology
through accents, language, and communicaQon
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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,
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, and slang 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 of Leicester),

9:25

Aldo Accinelli (University of Amsterdam), Can equivocations becontrolled in archaeology?

Ey, Ay? What are the implications of AI technology for
research/ knowledge production and consumption?

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9:45

Matthew Johnson (Northwestern University), Archaeologicaltheory 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 theworld 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)

11:25

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

11:45

Questions

11:55

Discussion

12:55

End

22.RepeQQon, repeQQon, repeQQon: archaeological applicaQons ofrepeQQon beyond the normaQve
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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:
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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 otherwords: ‘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 the
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 andgenerality: problematising the endurance of medieval urbanity

10:05

Questions

10:15

Tea/coffee

10:45

Kevin Kay (University of Leicester), Revivals: Going back to theway things used to be in Neolithic Turkey

11:05

Crain N. Cipolla (Tufts University), Rachel J. Crellin and Oliver J.T.
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Kelly Davies (Cardiff University), CTRL+C and CTRL+V?
Thinking about hillforts as a repeated phenomenon

11:45

Kirsty Lilley and Lusia Zaleskaya (University of Edinburgh), Repeat
after me: exploring similarity and variation in Later Neolithic
funerary architecture

12.05

José Chessil Dohvehnain Martínez-Moreno (Universidad Nacional
Autónoma de México-UNAM), The power of repetition and rockart.
Virtual Presentation

12:25

Discussion

13:00

End

Wednesday afternoon 20th December 14:00-17:30
23.How can archaeologists take climate action?
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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 othercultural 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
restorative practice which re-engages people with the landscape, the past and each other?

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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 in archaeological practice.

16:00

Sarah Scoppie (Regional Council Stuttgart), World Heritage andSustainable Development – Partners against crime or longstanding nemeses?

16:20

Discussion

17:00-17:30

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24.On the Wetland’s Edge: Iron Age Settlements, Environments andCultural Interactions.
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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 andecofacts 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 theseenvironments. The development of settlements on the frontier of wetland offers us the
chance to explore economic, social, cultural and symbolic relationships between site andlandscape.
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 archaeologicalevidence and interdisciplinary approaches, this session aims to unravel the complex
relationships between Iron Age settlements, their surrounding environments, and thecultural 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

15:10

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15:30Tea/coffee

16:00

Tiffany Treadway (Pontypridd Museum), The mnemonic andcognitive functions of British Iron Age deposition practice in Walesand Scotland

16:20

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

16:40

Discussion

17:00-17:30

End

TAG NaQonal Commikee Annual MeeQng
13:00-15:00
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