THEORETICAL ARCHAEOLOGY GROUP CONFERENCE 1995
GENERAL INFORMATION
The 1995 Conference of the Theoretical Archaeology Group will be hosted by the D
epartment of Archaeology at the University of Reading (18th 21st December). The
conference will comprise a plenary address and nineteen sessions spread over fo
ur days. Throug
hout all but the first day there will be four sessions running concurrently. The
academic programme will be augmented by social events each evening. T.A.G. 95 i
s open to everyone.
Enquiries: General enquiries about the conference should be directed to Jan Hard
ing in the Department of Archaeology, University of Reading (Tel: 01734 318132/
Fax: 01734 316718/Email: [log in to unmask]). For information about booking
s, accommodatio
n etc., contact Nyree Finlay/Paddy Woodman (01734 316785/Email: [log in to unmask]
.uk).
Applications: If you wish to attend the conference please complete the applicati
on form and return with remittance to:
TAG. 95 (APPLICATIONS), DEPARTMENT OF ARCHAEOLOGY, FACULTY OF LETTERS AND SOCIAL
SCIENCES, WHITEKNIGHTS, UNIVERSITY OF READING, PO BOX 218, READING RG6 2AA, UNI
TED KINGDOM.
TEL: 01734316785
Conference fee: Payment of conference fee entitles participants to attend all ac
ademic sessions and social events during T.A.G 95, to receive a delegate pack in
cluding final programme with session and paper abstracts, and to partake of tea
and coffee as a
vailable.
Accommodation: Bed and Breakfast accommodation is available in University Hall o
f Residence single bedrooms, all centrally heated and with washbasins, on the ni
ghts of 18th, 19th and 20th December. Participants who require accommodation on
other nights sh
ould contact Jan Harding on the numbers above. Please note that twin/double room
s are not available. There are also a small number of single selfcatering rooms,
as well as free floor space, for unwaged delegates. Please make any enquiries t
o Nyree Finlay/
Paddy Woodman (01734 316785) by 30th November at the latest.
Speakers and session organisers: Please note that all participants, including sp
eakers and session organisers, must pay for their registration, accommodation an
d food. Everyone attending the conference in any capacity must return an applica
tion form with
the appropriate remittance.
Cancellations: Cancellations made in writing before 30th November will receive a
full refund. No refund can be made for cancellations received after this date b
ut substitutes will be accepted.
Parking: There is ample free carparking space at the University of Reading. All
applicants to the conference will receive a map with the carparks clearly marked
.
Child care: Daytime child care may be available for an additional charge. Enquir
ies for this facility must be made to Jan Harding on the numbers above before 17
th November.
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T.A.G. 95: 18th 21st December
SUMMARY OF SESSIONS
MONDAY 18TH DECEMBER PM
% Plenary Address: The InterDisciplinary Nature of Archaeology
TUESDAY 19TH DECEMBER AM
% The Archaeology of Creative Thought
% Human Use of Finite Resources: OverExploitation and Public Goods Models
% The Organisation of Archaeology
% Old Pots, New Perspectives: New Approaches to the Study of Prehistoric
Ceramics
TUESDAY 19TH DECEMBER PM
% Rethinking Social Territory in Prehistory
% Human Use of Finite Resources: OverExploitation and Public Goods Models
% Disabling Archaeology
% General Perspectives in Theoretical Archaeology
WEDNESDAY 20TH DECEMBER AM
% The Cultural Politics of the Body: the Uses and Abuses of Biology
% Off the Record: Critical Approaches to Current Archaeological Practice
% Who's Minding the Stores? The Role of Storage in the Development of
Sociocultural Complexity
% Northern Exposure: Interpretative Devolution and the Iron Age of the British
Isles
WEDNESDAY 20TH DECEMBER PM
% The Architectural Psyche
% The Ethics of Historical Representation
% General Perspectives in Art
% From RComplexity" to "Complex Society": Mediterranean Europe before Rome
THURSDAY 21ST DECEMBER AM
% Archaeology in Ireland and the Construction of National Identities
% Past and Present: Modern Material Culture
% Life
% Heritage, Politics and Archaeology
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PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME
A wallet containing the final programme and timetable, abstract booklet, and oth
er information will be given to each participant at the Registration Desk on arr
ival. Please note that the order of papers within any particular session will no
t necessarily b
e as given below.
MONDAY 18TH DECEMBER PM
14.00 17.30 Plenary Address: The InterDisciplinary Nature of Archaeology Speaker
s will include Patrick Kirch (Department of Anthropology, University of Californ
ia, Berkeley, USA), Robert Bovd (Department of Anthropology, University of Calif
ornia, Los Ange
les, USA) and Anthony Brown (Department of Geography University of Exeter, UK).
Further details in final programme.
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TUESDAY l9TH DECEMBER AM
9.00 12.45 The Archaeology of Creative Thought Session Organiser: Steven Mithen
(Department of Archaeology, University of Reading, UK).
Margaret Boden. The Creative Mind.
Richard Byrne. Creative Thinking by Monkeys and Apes.
Clive Gamble. Neanderthal Creativity.
Steven Mithen. Creative Thinking and the Origins of Art.
Robert Lavton. Creative Thinking in Traditional Aboriginal Society.
Ian Hodder. Plus ca Change.... How Can Archaeology Contribute to an Understandin
g of Creativity.
Richard Bradley. The Good Stones: Architecture, Imagination and the Neolithic Wo
rld.
Colin Renfrew. Chevalier d'honneur: Assessing the Mental Map in the European Iro
n Age.
Chair and Discussant: to be announced.
9.00 12.00 Human Use of Finite Resources: OverExploitation and Public Goods Mode
ls
Session Organiser: James Steele (Department of Archaeology, University of Southa
mpton, UK).
Robert Bovd. Group Size, Norms, and the Evolution of Cooperation. Andrew Fleming
. The Changing Commons: the Case of Swaledale (England).
Bobbi Low. Why we are not Environmental Altruists.
James McGlade. NonLinear Modelling of Human Ecodynamics. Stephen Shennan. Escala
tory Processes in the Exploitation of Materials for Status Signalling and Status
Negotiation.
Chair and Discussant: James Steele.
9.00 12.50 The Organisation of Archaeology
Session Organiser: John Carman (Department of Archaeology, University of Cambrid
ge, UK).
John Carman. The Political Economy of Archaeology: Organising a 'Useful' Resourc
e.
Antony Firth. Archaeological Power Containers: City, County, Country, Continent.
Koji Mizoguchi. The Reproduction of Japanese Archaeological Discourse: A Structu
rationist Critique.
Stephanie Moser. Archaeology and its Disciplinary Culture: The Institutional Dyn
amics of Community Formation.
Susan Thomas. Archaeological Writing and the Expression of Disciplinary Organisa
tion.
Diura Thoden van Velzen. Beyond the Bounds of Professional Archaeology: Tomb Rob
bers, Amateurs and Collectors in Italy. Sarah Colley. Cultural Policy, Cultural
Heritage and the Organisation of Australian Archaeology.
Malcolm Cooper. Do Traditional Perspectives on Archaeological Organisations Actu
ally Help us to do Good Archaeology?
Chair and Discussant: John Carman.
9.00 11.30 Old Pots, New Perspectives: New Approaches to the Study of Prehistori
c Ceramics
Session Organiser: Ann Woodward and J.D. Hill (on behalf of the Prehistoric Cera
mic Research Group).
Ann Woodward. Bronze and Iron Age Vessel Size, Form and Function.
J.D.Hill. From Middle to Late Iron Age Pottery in East Anglia. Were changes in R
epertoire and Deposition as (or more) important than the Introduction of the Pot
ter's Wheel?
Adam Gwilt. Deposition and IntraSite Patterning of Pottery on Iron Age Settlemen
ts in Northamptonshire.
Robin Boast. Pots as Categories: British Beakers.
Chair and Discussants: Ann Woodward and J.D.Hill.
TUESDAY l9TH DECEMBER PM
14.00 17.30 Rethinking Social Territory in Prehistory
Session Organiser: Jan Harding (Department of Archaeology, University of Reading
, UK).
Keith Ray. Lineage and the Land.
Chris Gosden. Centres of Gravity: Multiple Territories in West New Britain, Papu
a New Guinea .
Jan Harding. Pathways to New Realms: Cursus Monuments and Symbolic Territories.
Barbara Bender, Sue Hamilton and Christopher Tilley. Leskernick: The Spirit of t
he Place.
Paul Garwood. Territory and Cosmography in the Early Bronze Age. Mike Parker Pea
rson. Time, Territory and Tradition: Reconstructing Prehistoric Territories in S
outh Uist, Outer Hebrides.
Nigel Spencer. A Duality of Possession and Identity: Greeks and Anatolians in Le
sbos during the Early Iron Age and Archaic Periods.
Chair: Jan Harding. Discussant: Tim Ingold.
14.00 17.15 Human Use of Finite Resources: OverExploitation and Public Goods Mod
els
Session Organiser: James Steele (Department of Archaeology, University of Southa
mpton, UK).
Clive Gamble and James Steele. Human Group Sizes, Dietary Strategies, and the Re
lation between Human Range Expansion and Animal Extinctions.
Steven Mithen. Simulation Modelling of Mammoth Hunting and Mammoth Population Dy
namics, in Relation to Megafaunal Extinctions.
Pippa Smith. Sustantainable Fishing: Fact or Fantasy.
Dale Serjeantson. Social Dynamics of the Extinction of the Great Auk in Island S
cotland.
Kate Clark. OverExploitation, Breeding Stress, and Maladaptive Genetic Traits in
Domesticates.
Jonathon Adams. The Past as a Key to the Future: Global Environmental Change, Hu
man Impact, and Climate Models.
Chair and Discussant: James Steele.
14.00 17.00 Disabling Archaeology
Session Organiser: Nyree Finlay (Department of Archaeology, University of Readin
g, UK).
Theya Molleson. The Archaeological Evidence for Attitudes to Disability in the P
ast.
Chris Knusel. Orthopaedic Disability: Some Hard Evidence.
Morag Cross. Accessing the InaccessibleDisability and Archaeology.
Kevin Taylor. A Neolithic Paradox?
Charlotte Roberts. Disability in the Skeletal Record: Assumptions, Problems and
some Examples.
Chair and Discussant: Tom Shakesphere.
14.00 17.50 General Perspectives in Theoretical Archaeology Session Organiser: T
AG. Committee (Department of Archaeology, University of Reading, UK).
Bjorn Andersson. Archaeology as Communication.
Fiona Campbell and Jonna Hansson. Archaeology as Sacred Space. Archaeology for i
ts Own Ends or for Directed Ends?
Farid Rahemtulla. Variability, Analogy, and Scales of Interpretation in Archaeol
ogy.
Lynn Meskell. Writing the Body: Institutions, Discourses and Corporeality.
Pavel Dolukhanov. Where Lies the Divide?
Yannis Hamilakis. Deconstructing Subsistence: Towards an Archaeology of Eating a
nd Drinking.
Louise Hitchcock. Of Bar Stools and Beehives: An Interpretive Dialog about a Min
oan Store Room.
Chair and Discussant: to be announced.
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WEDNESDAY 20TH DECEMBER AM
9.00 12.45 The Cultural Politics of the Body: the Uses and Abuses of Biology
Session Organiser: Mary Baker and Susan Pitt (Departments of Archaeology/ Histor
y, University of Wales, Lampeter, UK).
Mary Baker. Gender and Sex, Cultural or Natural?
James Bradley and Hamish MaxwellStewart. Body Narratives: Reading the 'Bleeding'
Obvious?
Paul GravesBrown. Natural Born Killers? The Politics of Sociobiology.
Tim Ingold. Against Evolutionary Psychology.
Yvonne Marshall. Of Sex and Reproduction.
Jonathon Sawday. Fighting in the Field of Nature: The Politics of the Uterus in
Early Modern Science and Culture.
Susan Pitt. The Cultural Construction of Birth: Or Why Childbirth Isn't Natural.
Tim Walley. Archaeology and Sociobiology: What Place Emotions?
Chair and Discussants: Mary Baker and Susan Pitt.
9.00 12.15 Off the Record: Critical Approaches to Current Archaeological Practic
e
Session Organiser: Olivia Lelong (Department of Archaeology, University of Glasg
ow, UK).
Michael Shanks. Technical Progress and Political Futures.
Demetra Papaconstantinou. Intrasite Spatial Variability: Evaluating the Record a
nd Redefining the objectives.
Tony Pollard. Still Digging: the Work and Play of Archaeology.
Jane Downes and Colin Richards. Toward a Thicker Report.
Olivia Lelong. Picking up the Pieces: A Reconsideration of Artefact Studies.
John Barrett. Is an Integrated Excavation Record and Report Possible?
Chair and Discussant: Jenny Moore.
9.0012.15 "Who's Minding the Stores?" The Role of Storage in the Development of
Sociocultural Complexity
Session Organiser: Rick Schulting (Department of Archaeology, University of Read
ing, UK).
Richard Bradley. A Granary in Galicia.
Liliana Janik. Questioning the Link between Storage, Private Ownership and Compl
exity in Prehistoric Northern Europe.
Andy Jones. Bowled Over: Social Change, Storage and the Unstan Ware/Grooved Ware
Transition in the Orcadian Neolithic.
Simon Kaner. Storage and Complexity in Jomon Japan.
Rick Schulting. Storage and Ownership in the Archaeological Record of Hunter Gat
herers.
Thomas Strasser. Storage and State Formation: another Aegean Perspective.
Chair: Rick Schlting Discussant: Marek Zvelebil.
9.00 I2.30 Northern Exposure: Interpretative Devolution and the Iron Age of the
British Isles
Session Organiser: Bill Bevan (Peak District National Park, UK).
Jane Webster. Here be Dragons!: Roman Attitudes to Northern Britain.
Chris Cumberpatch and Graham Robbins. South Yorkshire and Wessex.
Steve Willis. Unpacking 'Regional Identity': Culture and Community in the Iron A
ge of NorthEastern England.
Eoin Grogan. The Iron Age in Ireland? Funny you Should Ask.
Angela Piccini. The Iron Age and Landscapes of Heritage in Modern Wales.
Richard Hingley. Ancestors and Identity in the Iron Age of Atlantic Scotland.
Mike ParkerPearson. Food, Sex and Death: Kinship and Social Structure in the Eas
t Yorkshire Iron Age.
Chair: Colin Haselgrove Discussant: Chris Gosden
WEDNESDAY 20TH DECEMBER PM
14.00 17.15 The Architectural Psyche
Session Organiser: Nicola Bestley (Department of Archaeology, University of Camb
ridge, UK).
Nicola Bestley. Architecture and Being: The Construction of Human Space and Iden
tity.
Julian Thomas. Monuments, Materiality and Modernity.
Jeremy Dronfield. The Stone Universe: Cosmos and Architecture in Later Neolithic
Ireland.
Colin Richards. Water as Natural Architecture.
Mathew Johnson. Architecture and Identity in Renaissance England.
Chair and Discussant: to be announced.
14.00 17.15 The Ethics of Historical Representation
Session Organiser: Robert Eaglestone (Department of English, University of Wales
, Lampeter, UK).
Mary Baker. Body Politics.
Susan Pitt. Feminism, Logocentrism and the Discipline of History. Robert Eaglest
one. The (Un)Narratable: Ethics and the Construction of Historical Narratives.
Michael Tierney. The World Archaeological Congress 1994 and the Politics of the
Past.
Patrick Finney. Ethics and Historical Relativism: The Challenge of Holocaust Den
ial.
Tom Webster. The Word of God and the Religious Past.
Chair and Discussant: Robert Eaglestone.
14.00 17.15 General Perspectives in Art
Session Organiser: TAG. Committee (Department of Archaeology, University of Read
ing, UK).
EvaMarie Goransson. In the Space between Object and Art. Camilla Power and lan W
atts. Sexual Deception and the Origins of Art.
George Nash. The Performance of Saharan Rock Art lnfluences and Structuration.
Caroline Malone and Simon Stoddart. The Origins of Art in an Island Society.
Jens Ipsen. The Role of Pictographs in the Cultural Complexity of Eastern Finlan
d.
Andy Jones. Sticks, Stones and Broken Bones: Natural Symbols in the Orcadian
Neolithic.
George Nash. Wet, Dry: High and Dry: A ReEvaluation of the Rock Painting Site at
Tumhehed, Torslanda, Goteborg.
Chair and Discussant: to be announced.
14.0017.45 From "Complexity" to "Complex Society": Mediterranean Europe before R
ome
Session Organiser: Bob Chapman, Catriona Gibson, Sturt Manning and Sarah Monks (
Department of Archaeology, University of Reading, UK).
Bob Chapman and Sarah Monks. Complexity in the Mediterranean Past: Definitional
Problems for Comparative Analysis.
Sturt Manning. Perspectives on Complexity and Change: The More Things Change the
More they Stay the Same.
Vicente Lull. What do we Mean by 'State': A Spanish Perspective. Ian Morris. Com
plex Problems in Iron Age Greece.
Francis DeMita. Trading In and Trading Up: Mapping Shifting Power Configurations
in the Late Bronze Age of the East Mediterranean. Bernard Knapp. Comparative Sp
ace, Maritime Place.
Catriona Gibson. "Hot in the City Tonight". The Emergence ofWest Iberia in the F
irst Millennium BC.
Georgia Nakou. 'The Cutting Edge': Metallurgy and Society in the Later Neolithic
and Early Bronze Age Aegean.
Chair and Discussants: Bob Chapman, Catriona Gibson, Sturt Manning and Sarah Mon
ks.
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THURSDAY 21ST DECEMBER AM
9.00 13.00 Archaeology in Ireland and the Construction of National Identities
Session Organiser: Maggie Ronayne (Department of Archaeology, University of Sout
hampton, UK.).
Maggie Ronayne. Gender, Nation and the Politics of Identity in Archaeology in Ir
eland.
Michael Tierney. Bourgeois Nationalism and Empiricist Archaeology: the Case of I
reland.
Dorcas Boreland. Irish Antiquarians in the Nineteenth Century. John Tierney: Tit
le to be announced.
Diarmait Mac Giolla Chriost. Material Culture and Ethnic Conflict in Northern Ir
eland.
Jerry O'Sullivan. Archaeologists and Early Christians: Diversity and Uniformity.
Gabriel Cooney. From a Distance there is Harmony Writing the Neolithic.
Stephen Johnston. "Nothing but the Heavens and the Bog": Landscape Archaeology a
nd Issues of Identity.
Julian Thomas. Parallel Identities and the Mesolithic/Neolithic Transition.
Chair: Maggie Ronayne Discussant: Mike Rowlands
9.00 12.30 Past and Present: Modern Material Culture
Session Organiser: Paul GravesBrown (Department of Psychology, University of Sou
thampton, UK.).
Orla Cronin. Mirrors and Prisms: The Functions of Photographs in Family Life.
Thomas Dowson. From the Rocks to TShirts: Power and the Popular Consumption of R
ock Art Imagery.
Paul GravesBrown. Mysterious Objects.
Neil Jarman. Styles of BelongingDisplays of Intent.
Beth Preston. How Things Change. Form, Function, and Change of Function.
John Schofield. TAG and AntiHeritage: Perceptions of Punk, Pop and the TPistols.
James Steele. Skill, Motivational State, and the Sociology of the Emotions: a Co
mparative Perspective.
Chair and Discussant: Paul GravesBrown.
9.0012.15 Life
Session Organiser: Duncan Brown and Keith Matthews (Department of Psychology, Un
iversity of Southampton, UK.).
Julie Bond. Food.
Eleanor Scott. Children.
Duncan Brown and Alan Chalmers. Light.
Keith Matthews. Icons.
Paul Blinkhorn. Drugs.
Mike Morris. Entropy.
Chair and Discussant: Duncan Brown and Keith Matthew.s.
9.00 11.00 Heritage, Politics and Archaeology
Session Organiser: TAG. Committee (Department of Archaeology, University of Read
ing, UK.).
Daniel Mouer. Digging Sites and Telling Stories: History, Narrative and the Cult
ure Problem.
Louise Hitchcock. Virtual Discourse: Arthur Evans and the Reconstructions of the
Minoan Palace at Knossos.
Michael Eddy. Political Interference in Archaeological Research in the Canary Is
lands.
Eleana Yalouri. A Manner of Taste: the SocioPolitics of Aesthetics and the Athen
ian Acropolis.
Chair and Discussant: to be announced.
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T.A.G. T95 APPLICATION FORM
Please complete in block capitals and return, with remittance, by 30th November
to:
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SCIENCES, WHITEKNIGHTS, UNIVERSITY OF READING, P.O. BOX 218, READING RG6 2AA, U
NITED KINGDOM.
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B & B on Monday 18th December.................. #18.35
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For unwaged participants a small number of self-catering rooms for #13.00 will
also be available along with a limited amount of free floor space. Enquiries by
30th November to Nyree Finlay or Paddy Woodman in the Dept. of Archaeology, Un
iv. of Reading
(Tel: 01734 316785).
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Please indicate which sessions you are most likely to attend (tick as appropriat
e):
TUESDAY 19TH DECEMBER AM
..... The Archaeology of Creative Thought
..... Human Use of Finite Resources: Over-Exploitation and Public Goods Models
.... The Organisation of Archaeology
..... Old Pots, New Perspectives: New Approaches to the Study of Prehistoric Ce
ramics
TUESDAY 19TH DECEMBER PM
..... Rethinking Social Territory in Prehistory
..... Human Use of Finite Resources: Over-Exploitation and Public Goods Models
..... Disabling Archaeology
..... General Perspectives in Theoretical Archaeology
WEDNESDAY 20TH DECEMBER AM
..... The Cultural Politics of the Body: the Uses and Abuses of Biology
..... Off the Record: Critical Approaches to Current Archaeological Practice
..... WhoUs Minding the Stores? The Role of Storage in the Development of Socioc
ultural Complexity
..... Northern Exposure: Interpretative Devolution and the Iron Age of the Briti
sh Isles
WEDNESDAY 20TH DECEMBER PM
..... The Architectural Psyche
..... The Ethics of Historical Representation
..... General Perspectives in Art
..... From RComplexityS to RComplex SocietyS: Mediterranean Europe before Rome
THURSDAY 21ST DECEMBER AM
..... Archaeology in Ireland and the Construction of National Identities
..... Past and Present: Modern Material Culture
..... Life
..... Heritage, Politics and Archaeology
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