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>>World Archaeological Congress
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>>e-Newsletter
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>>Volume 2 December 2004
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>>Editor: Madeleine Regan: [log in to unmask]
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>>
>>1. Welcome
>>2. Executive News
>>3. Wac News
>>4. Forthcoming Conferences And Events
>>5. News Items
>>6. News Of Wac Members
>>7. Excerpts from newsletters of other Archaeological Associations (with
>>permission)
>>*SALON
>>*ICOMOS (Australia, US)
>>
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>>
>>
>>
>>1. Welcome
>>
>>I am pleased to welcome members to this second edition of the WAC
>>e-Newsletter in 2004. As I wrote in the previous edition, WAC continues
>>to expand its work particularly in the area of publishing.
>>
>>We are developing new avenues for on-going dialogue and debate, involving
>>scholars from across the range of our constituency, and so we can address
>>topical issues in a timely manner. Foremost among our initiatives here is
>>Archaeologies: The Journal of the World Archaeological Congress. This is
>>a major outlet for some of our intellectual work and a vehicle for
>>regular communication amongst our constituency. It is a forum that brings
>>together the voices of Western and non-Western, Indigenous and
>>non-Indigenous scholars, and others interested in understanding the past,
>>wherever in the world they are located. The first issue will be published
>>in June, 2005.
>>
>>Many of the goals of WAC members can be achieved at a regional level. Our
>>capacity here is being strengthened through our support for two regional
>>journals. Edited by Christóbel Gnecco of Colombia and Alejandro Haber of
>>Argentina, Arqueología Suramericana - Arqueologia Sul-Americana,
>>addresses the critical need of South American archaeologists to have
>>increased control over the production of archaeological knowledge about
>>their region. While this is one of the most intellectually active parts
>>of the world in terms of archaeological theory and the formulation of
>>alternative approaches from both disciplinary and contextual points of
>>view, until now it has lacked an archaeological journal which is steered
>>solely by South American archaeologists. Published in Spanish and
>>Portuguese, this journal is a welcome move away from the hegemony
>>inherent in an English language approach to publication.
>>
>>Our other regional journal is published from the University of Ibadan in
>>Nigeria. The Journal of Environment and Culture (JEC) edited by O.B.
>>Lawuyi was founded in 2002 as an official publication of the Department
>>of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria.
>>The Department, established in 1971 has housed the publication of the
>>West African Journal of Archaeology, thus the Journal of Environment and
>>Culture is a new addition to its journal stable. The first volume (1,
>>nos. 1&2) appeared this year (2004). The journal provides an
>>interdisciplinary platform to debate the interactive nature of culture
>>and environment and how humanity fares within the dynamics of the
>>intellectual, economic and political exchange in which such interactions
>>are framed locally and globally.
>>
>>I am pleased that WAC has been given permission to include items from
>>electronic newsletters written by other Archaeological Associations' in
>>its e-Newsletter. In this edition we have excerpts from SALON,
>>Australian/ICOMOS and US/ICOMOS. We all benefit when we have access to
>>information provided through a range of sources.
>>
>>I would like to take this opportunity to thank all those WAC members who
>>have taken responsibility for developing the work of WAC in 2004. I wish
>>all members a very positive beginning to the New Year, and look forward
>>to meeting some of you at various WAC events and meetings during 2005.
>>
>>With best wishes,
>>
>>Claire Smith
>>President
>>
>>[log in to unmask]
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>>2. Executive News
>>
>>New Vice-President
>>Following the resignation of Gamini Wijesuria last month, Larry Zimmerman
>>has kindly accepted the invitation to be Vice-President of WAC until the
>>next Congress in Jamaica, in June, 2007. The appointment was made
>>unanimously by the Executive in consultation with the WAC Council. The
>>conversation about how to fill the position started with diversity and
>>ended with the need for practical support. An important consideration
>>here was that members from low-income regions argued that at this stage
>>in WAC's development it is most important to appoint someone able to
>>access institutional resources to make it possible to do the work properly.
>>
>>Larry J. Zimmerman is Professor of Anthropology and Public Scholar of
>>Native American Representation at Indiana University-Purdue University
>>Indianapolis and the Eiteljorg Museum. He taught at the University of
>>South Dakota from 1974-1996, served as Chair of American Indian and
>>Native Studies at the University of Iowa from 1998-2001, then as Head of
>>the Archaeology Department at the Minnesota Historical Society before
>>taking his present position in 2004.
>>
>>Larry has authored, edited, or co-edited 18 books including Native North
>>America, Presenting the Past, and Ethical Issues in Archaeology. He
>>organized the first WAC Inter-congress on Archaeological Ethics and the
>>Treatment of the Dead in 1989, and served as WAC Secretary from
>>1990-1994. His research interests include archaeology of the United
>>States Great Plains and Midwest, indigenous archaeology, and issues
>>related to cultural property. His email is [log in to unmask]
>>
>>On behalf of the members of WAC, I welcome Larry Zimmerman to the Executive.
>>
>>I would like to take this opportunity to thank Gamini Wijesuria, for the
>>time and expertise he has given WAC, not only as Vice President but also
>>during his tenure as regional representative for Southern Asia.
>>
>>Claire Smith
>>
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>>
>>
>>3. WAC News
>>
>>Archaeologists and War
>>
>>The aim of this WAC taskforce is to investigate the role of archaeologists
>>in situations of armed conflict around the world, and explore the ethical
>>dilemmas and the social and political consequences and effects arising from
>>that involvement. More specifically this Taskforce will investigate the
>>following questions:
>>
>>1) Should WAC members and archaeologists in general work with the military
>>in situations of armed conflict, especially when international law is being
>>violated?
>>
>>2) Does the need to rescue archaeological monuments, sites and artefacts in
>>situations of armed conflict, override any other concern and responsibility
>>for archaeologists?
>>
>>3) Is our primary ethical responsibility in these cases to rescue the
>>archaeological monuments and sites, and how can we reconcile that
>>responsibility with the ethical concern over the legality and morality of
>>the conflict, and its effects on the present and future of the people
>>concerned?
>>
>>As its starting point, this Taskforce will explore these questions by
>>looking at archaeological involvement in two current cases, the
>>Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the pre-emptive invasion and occupation of
>>Iraq by the current USA and UK administrations and their allies.
>>
>>As the Taskforce Co-ordinator, I would like to hear from WAC members and
>>others who wish to contribute in some way to this work. I am interested, in
>>particular, in hearing from people who would like to share their experience
>>with regard to the above, and willing to be interviewed over the e-mail.
>>All suggestions and offers of relevant published and unpublished material
>>will be also appreciated. Finally, the work of this taskforce will be
>>reported
>>and debated in an academic workshop (still at the planning stage), and
>>I would like to hear from people who feel that can contribute in some way
>>to this workshop.
>>
>>Yannis Hamilakis
>>Archaeology, School of Humanities
>>University of Southampton
>>Avenue Campus
>>Southampton S017 1BF
>>UK
>>Tel: +23 80594776 (direct)
>> +23 80592247 (Dept)
>>Fax: +23 80593032
>>E-mail: [log in to unmask]
>>Web: http://www.arch.soton.ac.uk (Dept)
>>http://www.arch.soton.ac.uk/People/default.asp?Staff=yannis
>>
>>
>>WAC Inter-Congress Schedule
>>Following is information about four WAC Inter-Congresses that will be
>>held in 2005/6.
>>
>>1. Cultural Landscapes in the 21st Century. Cultural Landscapes,
>>Laws, Management, and Public Participation: Heritage as a challenge of
>>citizenship
>> April 11 - 16 2005
>> Newcastle, England
>> Convenor: Peter Stone
>>
>>This conference is held in collaboration with UNESCO, the City of
>>Newcastle, the Council for British Archaeology, and the UK branch of the
>>International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS UK). Humans have
>>always interacted with their environment and helped to create and modify
>>the landscapes in which they live. The last decade or so has seen not
>>only a significant increase in the scope, and in some instances, speed of
>>such developments, but also of our appreciation and understand of these
>>changes. These range from the suggested impact of global warming, through
>>localised changes in agricultural practice and a variety of forms of
>>economic exploitation, fronted perhaps by developments in tourism, to
>>developments in how landscapes are viewed and studied academically.
>>These, and many other developments, have led to the increased management
>>of landscapes and to more extensive formal protection within national and
>>regional laws. Some argue this has been at the expense of local community
>>interaction with, and control over, their own local environments.
>>
>>This conference will look at landscapes in all of their possible
>>manifestations, through a wide variety of academic disciplines and
>>through the voices of some of those who live and interact with
>>landscapes. It will investigate the supposed division between cultural
>>and natural landscapes and question the value of this division. The
>>conference is arranged around seven major themes.
>>
>>For further information, contact Peter Stone, [log in to unmask]
>>
>>
>>2. The Repatriation of Ancestral Remains
>> 7-10 July, 2005
>> Canberra, Australia
>> Convenors: Paul Turnbull and Michael Pickering
>>
>>The past fifteen years have witnessed a revolution in relations between
>>Indigenous peoples and Australian museums, characterized by recognition
>>of and respect for Indigenous rights and obligations in respect of
>>cultural property. Acknowledgement of Indigenous obligations and
>>customary law in respect of the dead has resulted in various initiatives
>>by museums and state agencies to resolve the fate of Indigenous human
>>remains and grave goods acquired during the colonial era. However, these
>>initiatives have had the effect of throwing into sharp relief challenges
>>that Indigenous peoples and museums face in seeking to work together to
>>resolve the fate of remains.
>>
>>This WAC Inter-Congress has the following aims:
>>
>>? To examine critically the successes and failures of efforts to resolve
>>the fate of Indigenous ancestral remains acquired from Australian and
>>overseas museums and scientific institutions.
>>? To assess repatriation policies and practices in the light of
>>Indigenous community experiences of repatriation.
>>? To address the problems of identifying and repatriating ancestral
>>remains located in European and other overseas collections, especially in
>>the light of scientific reluctance and resistance to recognize the rights
>>and obligations of Indigenous people in respect of the dead and their
>>possessions.
>>
>>For further information, contact
>>Paul Turnbull, Griffith University, [log in to unmask]
>>Michael Pickering, National Museum of Australia, [log in to unmask]
>>
>>
>>3. The Uses and Abuses of Archaeology for Indigenous Populations.
>> Second Indigenous Inter-Congress
>> November 8 - 12 2005
>> Rangataua, Tauranga, Aotearoa/New Zealand
>> Convenors: Des Kahotea and Joe Watkins
>> Program Chair: Stephanie Ford ([log in to unmask])
>>
>>An invitation is extended from the tribes of Tauranga Moana, Ngaiterangi,
>>Ngati Ranginui and Ngati Pukenga to attend this gathering of people.
>>
>>This Inter-Congress provides a forum for examining a range of issues
>>concerned with indigenous peoples and their past. WAC is based on, and
>>campaigns for, the need to recognize the historical and social role and
>>the political context of archaeological inquiry and the need to make
>>archaeological studies relevant to the wider community. WAC's First Code
>>of Ethics acknowledges the obligations of professionals in archaeology
>>and heritage management to indigenous peoples. This involves the
>>recognition of the importance of indigenous cultural heritage (sites,
>>places, objects, artifacts, human remains etc) to indigenous people and
>>also, that this heritage rightfully belongs to them as their cultural property.
>>
>>For further information, contact Des Kahotea, [log in to unmask] or
>>Joe Watkins, [log in to unmask] or Stephanie Ford,
>>
>>
>>4. Kyosei-no-koukogaku: Coexisting in the Past and Presen
>> 12 - 15 January 2006
>> Osaka, Japan
>> Convenor: Katsuyuki Okamura
>>
>>The Inter-Congress, Kyosei-no-koukogaku: Coexisting in the Past and
>>Present, will provide a forum for examining a range of issues relating to
>>the study and practices of archaeology in the past and present. There
>>will be three main areas of focus:
>>
>>1.Learning from the past.
>>2.Public archaeology.
>>3.Cultural heritage management.
>>
>>There will be opportunities for archaeologists to explore questions such as:
>>
>>*How do Indigenous peoples and immigrant/colonial powers coexist in a
>>single society?
>>*How do we develop practices to allow cultural heritage to be preserved
>>for study in the present (and the future)?
>>*Are there ways that the past and present can comfortably coexist in our
>>archaeological practices?
>>*How do we 'teach' coexistence?
>>
>>We are confronted now with the issue of how archaeologists can approach
>>this problem:
>>
>>In the present, another question we should tackle is how we can and/or
>>should live together with the cultural heritage of past people. What
>>have archaeologists done and how can and/or should they do for the
>>coexistence of the "Past" and the "Present"?
>>Through Kyosei-no-koukogaku: Coexisting in the Past and Present
>>archaeologists will address the issues of cultural symbiosis in the past
>>and it's implications for how to coexist with the cultural heritage
>>around us in a fruitful and productive manner so that all people can
>>better learn to appreciate the strength gained through mutual expression
>>of differences and so that cultural heritage is preserved for future
>>generations.
>>
>>Contact : Katsyuki Okamura, Osaka Museum of History, [log in to unmask]
>>
>>
>>WAC members are invited to respond to the following call for abstracts:
>>
>>
>>The Uses and Abuses of Archaeology for Indigenous Populations
>>
>>World Archaeology Congress
>>Indigenous Inter-Congress
>>Ranataua, Tauranga, Aotearoa/New Zealand
>>November 8 - 12, 2005
>>
>><http://www.worldarchaeologicalcongress.org>
>>
>>Conference Convenors: Des Kahotea ([log in to unmask]) and Joe Watkins ()
>>Program Chair: Stephanie Ford ([log in to unmask])
>>
>>The World Archaeology Congress issues a global call for abstracts from
>>which to select speakers at the Inter-Congress, The Uses and Abuses of
>>Archaeology for Indigenous Populations. We are seeking abstracts for
>>both sessions and papers. Confirmed sessions include:
>>
>>Who is Indigenous?
>>Sven Ouzman, South Africa, [log in to unmask]; Joram Useb,
>>Namibia, ; Joe Watkins, USA,
>>
>>Indigenous Paths to Archaeology
>>George Nicholas, Canada, ; Des Kahotea, New Zealand, ; Sonia Atalay, USA,
>>
>>The Representation Of Indigenous Peoples In Archaeological Theory
>>Alejandro Haber, Argentina,
>>
>>Museums: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
>>Dorothy Lippert, USA, [log in to unmask]
>>
>>Protecting Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property
>>Ken Isaacson, Australia, ; Julie Hollowell, USA, ; George Nicholas,
>>Canada, [log in to unmask]
>>
>>Repatriation: Issues for Communities
>>Naomi Anderson, Australia, ; Chris Wilson, Australia,
>>[log in to unmask]
>>
>>Research and Human Remains
>>Vincent Copley, Australia; Lynn Copes, USA, ; Larry Zimmerman, USA,
>>[log in to unmask]
>>
>>Resolving The Conflicts Between Archaeological And Indigenous
>>Significance In Heritage Assessments
>>Desiree Martinez, USA, ; David Johnson, Australia, ; Sven Haakinson, USA,
>>
>>Reverse Archaeologies
>>H. Martin Wobst , USA, [log in to unmask], Sally K. May, Australia,
>>[log in to unmask])
>>
>>PROCEDURES
>>
>>Abstracts of 500 words will be accepted up to August 1, 2005. Please email
>>your abstract to the Program Chair, Stephanie Ford:
>>([log in to unmask]).
>>If you have identified a session that you would like to present in, you
>>should
>>email your abstract directly to the session conveners. You will need to
>>include
>>your contact information (name, institutional affiliation if any, mailing
>>address,
>>phone, fax and email). Authors selected to present their papers will be
>>notified
>>within one month of submission of their abstract. Full final paper and
>>illustrations,
>>in electronic format will need to be submitted to the Program Chair
>>by 1 October 2005.
>>
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>>
>>
>>4. Forthcoming Conferences And Events
>>
>>A Training Workshop:
>>Memories and History: Using Material Culture and
>>Archaeological Sources as Alternative History
>>20-26 JUNE 2005
>>MOROCCO.
>>Additional information about the workshop can be obtained via the
>>CODESRIA web site (http://www.codesria.org) and the SEPHIS web site
>>(http://www.sephis.org).
>>
>>In June 2005, CODESRIA and SEPHIS will organise a training workshop on using
>>material culture and archaeological sources in the writing of histories.
>>The workshop
>>will compare experiences of Africa, Latin America, Asia and the Caribbean.
>>
>>The main goal of this South/South training workshop is to contribute to the
>>research skills of the participants and to exchange experiences, theories
>>and methodologies. The interdisciplinary workshop will bring together
>>junior and
>>senior scholars in history, archaeology, museum science, anthropology and
>>archival studies. Fifteen researchers from Latin America, Africa, Asia
>>and the Caribbean will convene for one week.
>>We will provide a stimulating intellectual environment and we will arrange
>>for the travel and living expenses of the participants.
>>
>>The training workshop will address critical issues of theory and method in
>>the study of material culture. It will examine the ideological and
>>theoretical
>>considerations behind the collection, preservation and visual display of
>>material
>>culture, as well as the potential and limitations of material sources for the
>>exploration of histories of the South. It will reflect on cultural
>>interactions and globalization, commodity chains, consumer choice and
>>consumption patterns
>>in relation to the expansion of the world market economy.
>>
>>The programme combines lecture/seminar courses and practical training in
>>roughly equal proportions. Sessions will focus on discussion and debate
>>among participants, with the Convenor helping to direct, facilitate, and
>>moderate
>>discussions. Two resource persons will give lectures focused on case studies
>>using archaeological/material sources. The laureates will discuss their
>>papers
>>and attend theoretical and methodological
>>courses. They will be required to present and submit a paper, which should
>>examine in detail the current theoretical issues or debates about these
>>sources.
>>The training workshop will also include an open forum, thus enabling
>>participants
>>to discuss current issues concerning excavation, recovery, research,
>>analysis and interpretation of archaeological materials. English is the
>>working language of the workshop.
>>
>>Eligibility
>>Applications are invited from active researchers in the fields of
>>archaeology, ethno-archaeology, history and anthropology. Museum professionals,
>>curators, archivists and other practitioners are also invited, if they
>>are active
>>researchers in their fields. Young scholars are expected to be affiliated
>>to a university, institute, museum or research NGO in the South. Senior
>>scholars in the South with
>>a solid reputation in these fields are encouraged to apply for the
>>position of Convenor
>>or resource person.
>>
>>Admission procedure
>>The application should include a three-page academic CV, the proposed paper
>>(maximum of 5 pages), including its summary (500 words) and a recommendation
>>letter. The paper should be based on well-defined theoretical, conceptual
>>and methodological elements and an analysis of the current status of
>>research on this specific issue. The paper should also indicate the
>>methodology used or developed
>>during the research.
>>Applications for the position of Convenor or resource person should
>>include an application letter, a CV and a one-page abstract of their
>>proposed lectures.
>>
>>Applications must be written in English. The deadline for the submission
>>of applications
>>is 1 February 2005. An international academic committee will select the
>>candidates
>>by 15 February 2005. Successful applicants will be notified immediately
>>after the completion of the selection process.
>>Incomplete and/or too lengthy applications will not be taken into
>>consideration. All faxed and e-mailed applications must also be
>>accompanied by a hard copy original version sent by post if they are to
>>be considered.
>>
>>Applications should be sent to: Ndèye Sokhna Guèye
>>"Workshop on Alternative Historical Sources"
>>CODESRIA/SEPHIS Programme
>>Avenue Cheikh Anta Diop, angle Canal IV
>>B.P. 3304, CP 18524, Dakar, Senegal
>>Fax: (221) 824 12 89
>>Tel.: (221) 825 98 22/23
>>E-mail: [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]
>>
>>
>>Annual Ethics Bowl, 2005 Salt Lake City, Utah
>>
>>The Second Annual Ethics Bowl will take place at the 2005 Society for
>>American Archaeology's 70th Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah on
>>March 31. We are
>>currently seeking input and ideas for case studies to be used in this
>>spring's event.
>>
>>The Ethics Bowl is a festive debate-style competition that explores the
>>ethics of archaeological practice. In this event, a moderator poses
>>hypothetical scenarios
>>based on ethical dilemmas faced by archaeologists to teams of three to
>>five graduate students representing a variety of institutions. Prior to
>>the Annual Meeting, each team receives an identical set of case studies
>>from which the scenarios discussed in each round will be chosen. The
>>teams compete in pairs, receiving points from a panel of judges based on
>>the quality of their arguments and their responses to arguments made by
>>the opposing team. The winning team receive prizes and will its name
>>engraved on the silver Ethics Bowl trophy.
>>
>>We would like to encourage, from all quarters, contributions of case studies
>>that illustrate the range and complexity of ethical dilemmas that arise
>>in archaeological practice. Please send us your ideas for scenarios,
>>however rough or polished,
>>from one paragraph up to one page in length. Though many of the cases
>>reflect very real circumstances, we will edit all names and places to
>>assure anonymity.
>>
>>The Ethics Bowl and accompanying case studies are also wonderful
>>activities to incorporate into any archaeology curriculum. The set of
>>case studies used by the students in 2004, along with the rules and
>>procedures for the Ethics Bowl, can be downloaded from the pull-down menu
>>on SAA web site at:
>>
>>http://www.saa.org/aboutsaa/committees/ethics/ebowl.html
>>
>>If you have case study ideas to contribute or would like any more
>>information about
>>the Ethics Bowl, please contact Julie Hollowell at [log in to unmask] or
>>(812) 320-1887
>>or Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh at [log in to unmask] or (520) 882-6946.
>>
>>If you are attending the SAA meetings in Salt Lake City, be sure to come
>>see the
>>Ethics Bowl in action! Preliminary rounds will be held on Thursday
>>morning, March 31,
>>in rooms 250 D and 251 D of the Salt Palace, and the FINAL EVENT will
>>take place Thursday at 1 pm.
>>
>>
>>Conference information from SALON 104 29 November 2004
>>
>>The Seventh International Conference on the Mesolithic in Europe will be
>>held in Belfast, Northern Ireland, from 29 August to 2 September 2005.
>>Meso 2005 will explore many of the issues pertinent to the study of
>>prehistoric hunter-gatherers-fishers. It will take place over five days
>>with parallel sessions and two half-day field-trips. As well as providing
>>discussion, it is designed to inform the audience of the many new
>>developments in the evidence for the Mesolithic period in Europe.
>>
>>Presentations will address the following themes: Transitions,
>>Understanding the Social Context, Environmental Studies, Mobility:
>>meaning; expression; recognition, Moving to New Lands, Dwelling and
>>Settlement, Confronting the Individual, Understanding Mesolithic
>>Technology, Islands: Life on the Edge?, Flint Alternatives, Ritual in
>>Context, Regional Identities and Current Research. It is not too late to
>>present papers, though the organisers would welcome information on
>>potential papers as soon as possible.
>>
>>Further details and booking information can be found at the Meso website:
>>http://www.ulstermuseum.com/meso2005/
>>
>>Conference information from US ICOMOS November 2004
>>
>>Colorado Preservation Inc. 8th Annual Historic Preservation Conference.
>>Saving Places 2005: Bringing Preservation Home, Feb. 2-4, 2005. Denver,
>>Colorado, USA. Presents current preservation programs, projects, trends
>>and technology. Features general and educational sessions, workshops,
>>tours, Endangered Places announcement luncheon, and the only trade show
>>of preservation goods, services and products in the Rocky Mountain
>>region. Special $130 early bird registration ends Dec. 15.
>>[log in to unmask], 303-893-4260, www.coloradopreservation.org.
>>
>>Annual Meeting, Society for Applied Anthropology.Heritage, 'Environment &
>>Tourism' - 5-10 April 2005. Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. E-mail: Erve
>>Chambers, [log in to unmask],
>>Further details on the website: http://www.sfaa.net/sfaa2005.html
>>
>>
>>8th World Colloquium on World Heritage Cities
>>19 - 23 September 2005, Cusco, Perú, With the suport of UNESCO, the Getty
>>Grant Program, the Getty Conservation Institute, the Municipality of
>>Cusco and the Organization of World Heritage Cities (OCPM)
>>The theme will be "Heritage of Humanity; Heritage with Humanity". Main
>>themes will be: 'Evaluating the experience of the local population in the
>>recovery and revitalization of World Heritage Cities'; 'Understanding
>>identity and intangible culture'; and 'Evaluating the influence and
>>impact of tourism on the population and the use of urban spaces.
>>
>>Information: Elizabeth Kuon Arce [log in to unmask],
>>Website: www.cusco8col.com.pe
>>
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>>
>>
>>5. News Items
>>
>>New South American Archaeological Journal
>>The new South American archaeological journal, Arqueología Sudamericana,
>>was launched on 10 December 2004 during the 3rd National Congress of
>>Columbian Archaeology, organized by Universidad del Cauca in
>>Popayan. Co-editors are Alejandro Haber (Catamarca, Argentina,
>>co-editor), Ernesto Salazar (Quito, Ecuador, Board of Advisors), Eduardo
>>Neves (Sao Paulo, Brasil, Editorial Board), and Cristóbal Gnecco
>>(Popayan, Columbia, co-editor).
>>
>>Recent activities for the Caribbean Region
>>1.UNESCO World Heritage Center International
>>Seminar for the identification of potential World Heritage
>>archaeological sites for the Caribbean was held. It included
>>an action plan for both national and transnational World
>>Heritage inscriptions in the coming years. Representatives from
>>21 countries-territories and professional institutions
>>participated.
>>
>>2. A UNESCO conference on Underwater Archaeological Heritage and
>>Legislation was held at Bogota, Colombia, in November.
>>
>>Some upcoming events include:
>>1. A seminar on Diverse Aspects of Colonial Archaeology, at the
>>Institute of Puerto Rican Culture, Puerto Rico, March 23-24 2005,
>>(www.icp.gobierno.pr)
>>2. The International Association for Caribbean Archaeology (IACA) 21st
>>Congress at Trinidad, University of the West Indies, July 24-30 2005,
>>([log in to unmask] or
>>http://museum-server.archanth.cam.ac.uk/iaca.www/iaca.htm)
>>3. Ongoing preparations for the proposal of WAC-6 at Jamaica.
>>
>>
>>Libya and Sudan
>>The following two items were provided by:
>>Elena A.A. Garcea
>>Universita' di Cassino
>>Italy
>>
>>Libya
>>Investigations conducted by the Libyan-Italian Joint Mission in the Jebel
>>Gharbi of the University of Rome "La Sapienza" (Italy) brought to light a
>>particularly interesting and unique aspect regarding early modern humans'
>>adaptational patterns to the environment in the Jebel Gharbi associated
>>with Aterian techno-complexes. Beginning from the late Upper Pleistocene,
>>tectonic faults produced a number of earthquakes of high magnitude, which
>>opened outlets of underground aquifers and, therefore, offered hospitable
>>locations with fresh water springs. Once the sites were settled in the
>>Late Pleistocene (> 40,000 years ago), they continued to be used until
>>the present-day.
>>
>>Sudan
>>New research on the later prehistoric sites at Sai island, north of the
>>Third Cataract of the Nile river, started in 2004, thanks to
>>contributions from the Mission Archéologique de l'Île de Saï and grants
>>from the University of Cassino and the Ministry of Education, University
>>and Research in Italy. Excavations at one pottery-bearing "Mesolithic"
>>site (8-B-10C) brought to light a complex occupational area with hut
>>floors, hearths, and post-holes.
>>
>>Intangible heritage
>>In 2003, UNESCO recognised the importance of intangible heritage through
>>a convention on the same. Thus while it has been taken for granted that
>>the intangible heritage is part of the human experience and does give
>>meaning to the tangible, little attention has been given to its study and
>>its recognition in the same way as that of tangible heritage. When people
>>talk of intangible the assumption has always been that they are talking
>>of illiterate societies and their oral traditions.
>>
>>Intangible heritage however is not just about oral tradition or societies
>>with no written history; it is just about every human action. It is about
>>memories, language, knowledge systems, music, oral tradition, meanings
>>etc and is just as important if not important than the tangible.
>>
>>Based on the above, I felt strongly that some kind of research on the
>>identification, and sustainable management and utilisation of this
>>heritage that Africa as a continent is so rich in was needed. I therefore
>>applied to the Getty to carryout research on sustainable management and
>>utilisation of intangible heritage in Africa. This was partly to
>>sensitise people on the important role of intangible heritage and also to
>>set the ball rolling on this whole issue of intangible heritage that so
>>many people now talk about and nobody seems to know what it is. Further
>>as for the knowledge systems, it was necessary to identify the rich
>>knowledge system in the continent and the way this resource has benefited
>>others apart from the Africans themselves and to suggest ways in which
>>this anomaly can be addressed.
>>
>>George Abungu
>>
>>
>>STOP PRESS
>>An item from The Chronicle of Higher Education
>>Thursday, December 16, 2004
>>http://chronicle.com/daily/2004/12/2004121602n.htm
>>
>>
>>Treasury Department Removes Restrictions on U.S. Publications by Authors
>>in Embargoed Countries
>>
>>By LILA GUTERMAN
>>
>>Washington
>>
>>The U.S. Treasury Department ruled on Wednesday that trade embargoes do
>>not restrict publishing, so American publishers, including scholarly
>>journals and university presses, do not have to apply for a license if
>>they wish to edit or publish works by authors in Cuba, Iran, or Sudan.
>>The ruling, which did not mention any other embargoed countries, came two
>>years after the department was first asked to clarify whether trade
>>embargoes apply to publishing, and seemingly contradicts several interim
>>decisions.
>>
>>Publishers considered the decision a major victory. The ruling, by the
>>department's Office of Foreign Assets Control, known as OFAC, allows such
>>activities as substantive editing, payment of royalties, adding
>>photographs, and collaborating with authors in embargoed countries --
>>"all the things they said before were not allowed," said Marc H. Brodsky,
>>who is executive director of the American Institute of Physics, which
>>publishes 11 journals, and chairman of the Professional and Scholarly
>>Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers.
>>
>>"This rule provides clarity and promotes important policies aimed at the
>>free exchange of ideas without undermining the national-security
>>objectives of these country sanctions," Robert Werner, OFAC's director,
>>said in a news release.
>>
>>Although the ruling continues to prohibit transactions with the
>>governments of Cuba, Iran, and Sudan, it specifies that the restrictions
>>do not apply to the countries' "academic and research institutions and
>>their personnel." Mr. Brodsky said it was unclear how the regulation
>>would affect a research branch of one of the countries' governments, such
>>as an equivalent of the National Institutes of Health.
>>
>>The decision seems to respond to a lawsuit filed in federal court this
>>fall by four publishers' groups, including the one Mr. Brodsky heads (The
>>Chronicle, September 27). The plaintiffs were joined by Shirin Ebadi, the
>>Iranian lawyer and human-rights activist who won the 2003 Nobel Peace
>>Prize (The Chronicle, October 10, 2003). Ms. Ebadi has sought to publish
>>her memoirs in the United States.
>>
>>"OFAC's previous guidance was interpreted by some as discouraging the
>>publication of dissident speech from within these oppressive regimes,"
>>Stuart Levey, the Treasury Department's under secretary for the Office of
>>Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, said in a news release. "That is
>>the opposite of what we want."
>>
>>Linda Steinman, a lawyer at Davis Wright Tremaine LLP who represents the
>>publishers in the lawsuit, called the ruling "a very, very positive step
>>in the right direction" but said that her firm would need more time to
>>analyze the ruling's details completely.
>>
>>Congress exempted "information or informational materials" from trade
>>embargoes in 1988. But until this week, the foreign-assets office had
>>taken a stricter view, exempting only informational materials that were
>>"fully created" by people in embargoed countries and that had not been
>>substantially altered in the United States. The office's rationale was
>>that such editing provided a valuable service to people living in the
>>embargoed country.
>>
>>Violators of the trade embargo face fines of up to $1-million and jail
>>terms of as much as 10 years. That threat led some publishers to back
>>away from authors in embargoed countries. Other publishers flouted the
>>regulations, saying they had the law on their side.
>>
>>In response to queries in late 2002 from an engineering group, the
>>Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, OFAC ruled in
>>September 2003 that "activities such as reordering of sentences,
>>correction of syntax, grammar, and replacement of inappropriate words by
>>U.S. persons" were prohibited unless a special license was granted. At
>>the same time, the office ruled that peer review does not alter or
>>enhance a manuscript, and therefore is not restricted by trade embargoes
>>(The Chronicle, October 10, 2003).
>>
>>After meeting with the engineers and with other publishers, OFAC changed
>>course in April, saying that the engineering group's form of copy and
>>style editing "does not constitute substantive or artistic alteration or
>>enhancement of the informational material" and therefore does not require
>>a license (The Chronicle, April 16).
>>
>>But the ruling applied only to the engineering group. Publishing groups
>>argued that the ruling was contrary to the First Amendment and the 1988
>>act of Congress.
>>
>>Mr. Brodsky said on Wednesday that he was satisfied with the new ruling.
>>"In this country," he said, "publishers do not have to go to their
>>governments and ask for permission to publish."
>>
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>>
>>
>>6. News of WAC members
>>
>>
>> >From Alinah Segobye
>>
>>In August 2004 I had the honour of contributing to the World Cultural
>>Forum Barcelona Forum 2004 which was cohosted by Interarts and
>>contributed to the subject Cultural Indicators of Human Development from
>>an African Perspective. The Conference, by focusing on cultural
>>indicators of human development, brought out critical issues of culture
>>and development and we particularly focused on heritage development in
>>Africa. In September I also participated in the UNDP sponsored meeting on
>>"Cultural Liberty in today's diverse world" presenting an African reading
>>of the Human Development Report 2004 on Cultural Liberty.Again, the focus
>>was on the significance of cultural liberty, cultural rights and human
>>rights in Africa with reference to cultural practitioners and cultural
>>heritage. The meeting was facilitated by the African Futures Institute
>>(www.africanfutures.net)
>>
>>In October I attended the 1st Conference of Intellectuals of Africa and
>>the Diaspora held in Dakar Senegal which brought together over 700
>>Africanist scholars, artists and Heads of States. The theme, Pan
>>Africanism in the 21st century: Rennaissance and Integration" drew
>>heavily on work done by Africanist archaeologists and historians
>>(www.au-ciad.org). In November I assisted the Peri-Natal Research Unit
>>(University of Witwatersrand) and South African History Archive (SAHA)in
>>conceptualising an HIV/AIDS Museum project and the proceedings of the
>>meeting will be made available soon. These meetings really brought home
>>to me the essence of WAC's philosophy of a world archaeology where as an
>>archaeologist I could apply knowledge to these critical subjects and
>>contribute to Africa's development agenda.
>>
>>I am now trying to settle down in Cambridge (Wolfson College) to do
>>serious research and writing on the archaeology of eastern Botswana. This
>>will be home for me and my son, Lefika until August next year.
>>
>>I am in Cambridge for a year as a Visiting scholar funded by the Smuts
>>Memorial Fund in Association with Wolfson College. The Fellowship covers
>>my stay from October 2004 to June 2005 and will enable me to work towards
>>developing my thesis to publication. The Fellowship has given me an
>>opportunity to catch up with research and particularly access to
>>libraries in Cambridge including the University Library and the Haddon
>>Library. I have already done a seminar and prepared some papers for
>>workshops and for publication. The visit was timely because I was able to
>>meet with a number of colleagues also visiting Cambridge including Dr
>>Paul Lane from the British Institute in Eastern Africa, Professor Randi
>>Haaland from Bergen and a number of colleagues who were already in the
>>Department of Archaeology in Cambridge.
>>
>>I should meet up with several other colleagues who are also visiting the
>>Department and doing research in Cambridge. I was lucky to participate in
>>two very wonderful events over the last two months. One was the wedding
>>of Professor Thurstan Shaw who in his 90s, was still able to say 'I do'
>>to fellow archaeologist, Pamela Smith. The wedding brought several
>>colleagues from around the world including Bayo Folorunso and Professor
>>Sowumni from Nigeria. Professor John Alexander was honoured with a
>>Feschcrift to celebrate his birthday and 50 years of work in African
>>archaeology. The book was published by the British Institute in Eastern
>>Africa and was presented by Dr Paul Lane and colleagues from Sudan who
>>had come to join the occasion to honour John's contribution to Sudanese
>>archaeology.
>>
>>Alinah Segobye
>>
>> >From Frank Willett
>>WAC members may care to know that my account of the archaeology and art
>>of Ife, Nigeria has recently been published by the Hunterian Museum as a
>>CD=-ROM.
>>Details can be found at the Museum's web
>>site:www.hunterian.gla.ac.uk/artofife/index.shtml
>>
>>
>> From Lucy Johnson
>>
>>Analysis of Prehistoric Food Remains
>>Last summer my students recorded 12,000 sea mammal bones from an
>>archaeological site in the Shumagin Islands, Alaska. Bone preservation
>>was excellent at this shell midden on Chernabura Island.
>>
>>The site was excavated by a team between 1988 and 1989. Since excavation,
>>parts of the collection such as artifacts, fish bone and some mammal bone
>>have been analyzed and catalogued. This summer, attention was turned to
>>completing analysis of the sea mammal remains. The site dates from about
>>2300 years ago to 1400 years ago. The Aleut were obligate maritime
>>hunter-gatherers, there being virtually no land based resources on which
>>to base subsistence. Contrary to the most Aleutian sites, the vast
>>majority of sea mammal bones found at the site, 80-95% by excavation
>>unit, came from sea otters. Also present were seals and sea lions. Fish
>>remains were dominated by cod, with halibut and various bottom fish also
>>present in appreciable numbers. We have been fortunate enough to acquire
>>a sea otter carcass and will be butchering it to acquire information on
>>food value early this spring.
>>
>>Work will continue on this project, specifically with the identification of
>>ribs to species (thanks to the loan of an adult Phoca vitulina, harbor seal,
>>comparative specimen from the University of Connecticut) and the analysis
>>of the avian bones. These analyses will complete the project and should
>>provide us with a much fuller picture of the pre-historic Aleut diet.
>>
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>>
>>
>>7. Excerpts from newsletters of other Archaeological Associations (with
>>permission)
>>
>>
>>from SALON - the Society of Antiquaries of London Online Newsletter
>>
>>SALON is intended to keep Fellows informed of news of antiquarian
>>interest. If you have news that you would like to share with Fellows,
>>please send an email to [log in to unmask] You can also use this
>>address to inform the editor of a change of email address, or to ask for
>>your name to be removed from the email list.
>>
>>The Society's website - www.sal.org.uk - contains additional news about
>>the Society and its activities, including full meeting reports, news of
>>forthcoming Society meetings and events, blue papers, ballot results and
>>obituaries. The site is usually updated every Monday.
>>
>>SALON Editor: Christopher Catling
>>[log in to unmask]
>>
>>
>> From SALON 103: 22 November 2004
>>
>>Plundered treasures end up on London market
>>Ninety per cent of the major archaeological sites in Pakistan and Iran
>>have been looted and the spoils are flooding into London, according to
>>Robin Coningham, Professor of Archaeology at the University of Bradford.
>>Professor Coningham's six-year survey of ancient sites in Pakistan and
>>Iran was conducted in collaboration with the universities of Peshawar and
>>Tehran, and with the backing of the Royal Geographical Society, the
>>British Institute of Persian Studies and the British Academy. His report
>>concludes that: 'Although the illegal destruction occurs abroad, much of
>>the looted material is channelled here to Britain and is sold in London.
>>The best material is coming to London Š the cultural heritage of the
>>developing world is [being] asset-stripped while we serve as a market
>>stall for objects of dubious provenance.'
>>
>>The survey team found eighteen hitherto unrecorded archaeological sites
>>dating to the first millennium BC in the Hindu Kush region, but fourteen
>>had already been damaged by illicit excavations, and more than 120 sites
>>dating back to 8000 BC in the Tehran plain, of which nearly all had
>>suffered recent damage.
>>
>>Neil Brodie, co-ordinator of the Illicit Antiquities Research Centre at
>>the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at Cambridge
>>University, estimates that up to 20 per cent of the material being
>>offered in London does not have an archaeological provenance. Dr Brodie
>>has called on the Government to extend to Pakistan and Iran the same kind
>>of emergency legislation passed last year to protect Iraqi antiquities.
>>That legislation forces anyone in possession of such an object to prove
>>it came out legally before UN sanctions were imposed on Iraq. He said:
>>'Since the emergency legislation, Iraqi antiquities have virtually
>>disappeared from the London market. Before that, there was a whole load
>>of Iraqi antiquities in London. It's the only thing that works.'
>>
>> **************************************************
>>
>>Review of the National Monuments Record
>>
>>Unlocking Heritage Information is the title of a newly published report
>>from English Heritage containing the results of its public consultation
>>exercise, carried out in autumn 2003, to which almost 900 responses were
>>received. The Review's principal recommendation is that a major corporate
>>commitment be made to providing more NMR information on line. The
>>recommendation has been formally endorsed by English Heritage's
>>Commissioners, and a series of programmes aimed at delivering vastly
>>improved access to NMR archives within three years will be launched in
>>spring 2005, as part of English Heritage's next Corporate Plan.
>>
>>English Heritage says that the initiative 'will be accompanied by a new
>>and vigorous portfolio of digital services and products, and a drive to
>>develop new audiences and partnerships. To resource all these
>>developments, 15 per cent of the NMR's £2.8 million budget will be
>>redirected towards the new initiatives and a new team will be charged
>>with specific responsibility for driving the changes forward.'
>>
>>As a mark of these commitments, the NMR has just launched the new
>>PastScape database, containing summary information on every
>>archaeological site in the National Monuments Record (around 400,000
>>sites, buildings, finds and excavations). Claiming to be the most
>>complete account of England's archaeology so far available on the
>>internet, the database can be interrogated at
>>www.english-heritage.org.uk/pastscape.
>>
>>Copies of the Report can be downloaded from www.nmrreview.org.
>>
>> **************************************************
>>**************************************************
>>
>>from Salon 104: 29 November 2004
>>
>>Tolkien's house is listed
>>
>>The house in Oxford in which J R R Tolkien wrote The Hobbit and virtually
>>all of The Lord of the Rings trilogy between 1930 and 1947 (voted the
>>'most popular book in Britain' in a recent BBC TV show) is to become a
>>Grade-II-listed building, Heritage Minister Andrew McIntosh has
>>announced. The eight-bedroomed house at 20 Northmoor Road, Oxford, was
>>built in 1924 by Fred Openshaw, a local architect, for Basil Blackwell,
>>the owner of Oxford's famous bookshop. Though it has no special
>>architectural qualities, it is described as 'largely unaltered since
>>Tolkien's time, with original doors, door handles and ornate window
>>catches'. The Department for Culture, Media and Sport justifies the
>>listing on the grounds of 'historical association with nationally
>>important people or events'. The house was sold to new owners in May this
>>year for a sum in excess of £1.5 million.
>>
>> **************************************************
>>Napoleonic wreck found off west Wales
>>
>>Members of the Pembrokeshire Scuba Diving Club have found a previously
>>undocumented warship off Strumble Head in Pembrokeshire. They believe
>>that the ship was one of four that took part in the attempted invasion of
>>Fishguard on 22 February 1797, the last time a foreign invader set foot
>>on the British mainland. Originally the force of 1,400 men (largely made
>>up of pardoned criminals and returned prisoners of war) had intended to
>>land near Bristol, burn it to the ground and march north to Chester and
>>Liverpool. Instead of sailing up the Bristol Channel the fleet was blown
>>off course and landed in Cardigan Bay, in south-west Wales. The invasion
>>force landed safely but became too drunk to fight after looting a cargo
>>of Portuguese wine. Local tradition has it that the intoxicated French
>>mistook hundreds of Welsh women dressed in traditional scarlet tunics and
>>tall stove hats for British redcoats and threw down their arms.
>>
>>Among the artefacts spotted on the seabed by the diving team were copper
>>keel pins, three cannon, including a swivel gun, and part of the ship's
>>hold. Cadw plans to send a specialist archaeological team to the site in
>>the New Year.
>>
>> **************************************************
>>Intensive fishing in the North Sea began in AD 1000
>>
>>Intensive fishing in the North Sea, which has now led to the collapse of
>>populations of cod and haddock, began as early as the eleventh century,
>>according to researchers at the University of York. In a paper published
>>in the Proceedings of the Royal Society last week, James Barrett and
>>colleagues report that their study of fish bones recovered from a range
>>of archaeological sites across Britain show a sudden and dramatic change
>>in the intensity of fishing and the type of fish deposited at the sites
>>in just a fifty-year period, around AD 1000. The team believes that the
>>dramatic rise in sea fishing from 950 to 1050 is a trend mirrored across
>>Europe, and probably occurred as a response to the exhaustion of stocks
>>of freshwater fish. They pinpoint the 'fish event horizon' at the turn of
>>the first millennium as 'the ultimate origin of today's fishing crisis'.
>>
>>'According to climate data, AD 1000 was a warm period, when cod and
>>herring would have been less abundant and the conditions would have been
>>conducive to agricultural expansion on the land, so it is surprising that
>>marine fishing was intensified then,' James Barrett said. 'I suspect what
>>happened was that over-fishing of freshwater stocks meant that they
>>became a rarity and only for the wealthy landowners. As a result, marine
>>fishing and trade in salt cod and dried herring became much more
>>intensive and supplied the common market'.
>>
>> **************************************************
>>
>>The missing link is found in Catalunya
>>
>>A report was published last week in the journal Science in which the
>>author, Professor Salvador Moyà-Solà of the Miguel Crusafont Institute of
>>Palaeontology and the Diputación de Barcelona, describes the discovery of
>>a near complete ape skeleton, described as the best candidate yet found
>>for the title of 'missing link' between apes and humans.
>>
>>Named Pierolapithecus catalaunicus (after Els Hostalets de Pierola, the
>>village, and Catalonia, the region, where the fossil was found), the
>>skeleton dates from 13 million years ago and therefore lies within the
>>right date range for the missing link, which might more correctly be
>>described as the ancestor of the great apes (orang-utans, chimpanzees,
>>gorillas and humans) at the point where they began to evolve separately
>>from the lesser apes (modern gibbons and siamangs). All current
>>contenders for the title of missing link are more primitive than
>>Pierolapithecus.
>>
>>Three key characteristics that Pierolapithecus catalaunicus shares with
>>the great apes are an upright posture and muzzle-less face, and a wide,
>>flat rib cage, or thorax, similar to that of modern great apes and unlike
>>the rounder monkey rib cage. 'It is the first time that the modern
>>ape-like thorax has been found in the fossil record,' Prof Moyà-Solà said.
>>
>>The individual found near Els Hostalets de Pierola was probably male,
>>weighed approximately 90lbs and appears to have been a fruit eater. The
>>lumbar section of his lower spine was relatively short and stiff,
>>differing from monkey vertebrae and similar to modern great apes. This
>>would have made it easier for Pierolapithecus to stand upright and climb
>>trees. His skull was also distinctly great ape-like: the face is
>>relatively short, and the structure of the upper nose lies in the same
>>plane as the eyes. In monkeys, a ridge between the eyes interferes with
>>the plane of vision.
>>
>>Pierolapithecus also had some more primitive, monkey-like features, such
>>as a sloped face and short fingers and toes. Professor Moyà-Solà and his
>>colleagues think this is a sign that various traits emerged separately in
>>ape evolution.
>>
>> **************************************************
>>Early Bronze Age cemetery found in Scotland
>>
>>A cluster of twenty-nine cremation pits has been found by workmen
>>constructing a £52m gas pipeline from St Fergus to Aberdeen at a
>>previously unknown settlement at Skilmafilly, north west of Peterhead in
>>Aberdeenshire. Buried in pottery urns, the cremated remains represent at
>>least thirty-five men, women and children who lived between 1900 BC and
>>1600 BC. The foundations of an even earlier ritual timber circle have
>>also been found, along with stone beads, bone pins and antler toggles for
>>clothing, eagle talons, pottery and an imported flint knife.
>>
>>Melanie Johnson, post-excavation manager at CFA Archaeology, the
>>organisation that carried out the work, said: 'This is really a very
>>significant and exciting find, as it is the most comprehensively
>>carbon-dated Bronze Age cremation cemetery in Britain Š nothing like this
>>has been excavated for decades.'
>>
>>Alison Sheridan, the head of prehistory at the National Museums of
>>Scotland, said that the community at Skilmafilly could have been involved
>>in making bronze from tin imported from Devon or Cornwall.
>>
>> **************************************************
>>
>>Vacancy
>>
>>The British Museum, Keeper: Africa, Oceania and the Americas
>>Salary £55,000 to £60,000, closing date 14 January 2005
>>The museum is looking for a well-respected figure from the fields of
>>social or cultural anthropology or related fields to manage the team of
>>specialists that will be involved in next year's programme of exhibitions
>>and events surrounding the Africa 2005 project. Visit the BM's website
>>for further information:
>>http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/
>>
>> **************************************************
>> **************************************************
>>
>>Australia ICOMOS E-Mail News
>>
>>Australia ICOMOS E-Mail News No. 148
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>>An information service provided by the Australia ICOMOS Secretariat
>>(26 November 2004)
>>mailto:[log in to unmask]
>>
>>
>>World Industrial Heritage
>>
>>The most recent Bulletin from TICIIH (the International Committee on the
>>Conservation of Industrial Heritage) draws attention to the World
>>Heritage Gaps Analysis report, World heritage Listing: Filling the Gaps:
>>an action plank for the future, available on
>>www.international.icomos.org/world_heritage/whlgaps.htm
>>
>>The Gaps report notes that the overwhelming majority of proposed places
>>are in Europe and North America. TICCIH is inviting people concerned with
>>industrial heritage to send their views to Regina Duringhello at ICOMOS
>>in Paris [log in to unmask]
>>
>> **************************************************
>>
>>Overseas Symposium dates
>>
>>5-8 May, 2005. The 8th US/ICOMOS International Symposium, Charleston,
>>South Carolina. HERITAGE INTERPRETATION: Expressing Heritage Sites Values
>>to Foster Conservation, Promote Community Development and Educate the Public.
>>
>>17-21 October, 2005. The 15th ICOMOS General Assembly and International
>>Symposium, Xiâ an, China. "Monuments and Sites in their Setting:
>>Conserving Cultural Heritage in Changing Townscapes and Landscapes
>>
>> **************************************************
>>
>>Draft ICOMOS-Ename Charter on Heritage Interpretation
>>
>>Following the discussions at of the ICOMOS Advisory Committee in Bergen,
>>Norway in September, 2004, we are now seeking input from all members on
>>the draft ICOMOS-Ename Charter on Heritage Interpretation. The text of
>>the draft Charter will be available shortly via the Australia ICOMOS
>>website - www.icomos.org/australia - look in the 'news' section.
>>
>>The editorial group from the International ICOMOS Executive Committee has
>>been Vice-President Sheridan Burke, Vice-President Gustavo Araoz, and the
>>Treasurer-General Giora Solar. They have worked with a small group from
>>the Ename Centre in Belgium. During 2004,the draft ICOMOS-Ename Charter
>>was circulated for comment, first to all International Scientific
>>Committees, and later, to all National Committees. A group of
>>international experts was also consulted, as was the full Executive
>>Committee of ICOMOS. Prior to the Bergen meeting, Australia ICOMOS
>>submitted detailed comments on the previous draft based on input from a
>>number of members (thanks!). Quite a few of those comments have been
>>incorporated in the current draft.
>>
>>The draft was the subject of very lively discussion at Bergen, and there
>>was a surprising diversity of opinion expressed. It has become clear to
>>the ICOMOS International Executive Committee that more discussion within
>>ICOMOS is needed, starting with comment on the 'Bergen Draft' by National
>>Committees. Although it was envisaged that the Charter could be submitted
>>for approval by the General Assembly in China next year, the editorial
>>group has decided to engage in a longer and more engaging international
>>process. Following this round of comment, there will be other
>>opportunities for members to participate in the discussion of the
>>Charter- with the aim of submitting it for consideration by the 2008
>>General Assembly in Quebec, Canada.
>>
>>Kristal Buckley, President, invited members to contribute to the next
>>draft by mid December.
>>
>> ************************************************
>>
>>Pacific 2009 Roundtable, New Zealand
>>
>>Following the recent World Heritage Periodic Reports for Asia and the
>>Pacific, a new world heritage programme "Pacific 2009" has been proposed
>>by UNESCO with a focus on consultation, capacity building, education and
>>the preparation of tentative lists and nominations for properties for
>>inclusion in the World Heritage list, using a cooperative partnership approach.
>>
>>A Roundtable meeting was organised October 17-22 in New Zealand for
>>representatives of Pacific Island countries and territories, the Advisory
>>Bodies and representatives of the World Heritage Centre. The Roundtable
>>was set within the framework established by the Global Strategy meetings
>>held in the Pacific (Fiji 1997 and Vanuatu 1999) to develop a credible
>>and balanced and representative World Heritage List and in the context
>>of the recent Representivity Report presented by ICOMOS to the 28th
>>Session of the World Heritage Committee in July 2004, which had
>>proved disappointing in its lack of Pacific region material.
>>
>>During 2004, visits by staff of the World Heritage Centre to the Pacific
>>had been undertaken to raise awareness, a Pacific version of "the world
>>heritage in young hands" education booklet was prepared and a range of
>>capacity building exercises was initiated. International funds are being
>>assembled to support a range of projects from training to study tours,
>>and priorities needed debate and definition.
>>
>>The final Pacific 2009 Action Plan and delegate list is to be added to
>>the Asia Pacific Focal Point Website, www.heritage.gov.au/apfp/
>>
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>>
>>Australia ICOMOS E-Mail News No. 150
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>>An information service provided by the Australia ICOMOS Secretariat
>>(3 December, 2004)
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>>
>>**BURRA CHARTER WINS NATIONAL AWARD**
>>
>>Year of the Built Environment 2004 (YBE 2004) National Awards Announced
>>The 10 winners of Australia's Year of the Built Environment 2004 (YBE
>>2004) National Awards were announced by the Governor of NSW during a
>>ceremony and reception held at the Sydney Opera House on 23 November 2004.
>>Australia ICOMOS was given the Australian Institute of Quantity Surveyors
>>YBE 2004
>>Our Built Heritage Award for the Burra Charter. The award was made by a
>>jury representing the built environment professions and recognises the
>>contribution that
>>the Burra Charter has made to Australia's built environment. The recently
>>published Illustrated Burra Charter by Meredith Walker and Peter
>>Marquis-Kyle was included
>>in the award citation, and images from the Illustrated Burra Charter were
>>shown
>>at the awards ceremony and in the YBE 2004 Compendium document published
>>by the RAIA.
>>
>>The award citation says (in part) that:
>>ŠThrough its timely reviews, plain English language and illustrated
>>examples of conservation issues and solutions,[the Burra Charter] remains
>>both the definitive and relevant reference document for both conservation
>>practitioners and the wider community to make informed decisions about
>>our heritageŠ
>>
>>In the Year of the Built Environment, the Burra Charter is celebrated for
>>its ongoing positive and inclusive approach to Our Built Heritage by
>>guiding the careful management of change that affects Australia's built
>>heritage and cultural landscapesŠ. The Burra Charter influences both the
>>conservation of many of Australia's most respected and admired heritage
>>buildings and sites and the design of sensitive additions and revisions
>>on important sites.
>>
>>In making its award, the YBE 2004 National Jury said:
>>The Burra Charter has provided an enduring philosophy of care and
>>practical guidance for the assessment, protection and interpretation of
>>heritage places as well as appropriate interventions to them.
>>
>>The Burra Charter has been recognised nationally and internationally as
>>an exemplary set of principles that embrace environmentally sustainable
>>development actions within social, historic and cultural contexts.
>>
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>>
>>ALERT: Paracas textiles stolen from the Museum of Ica, Peru
>>
>>ICOMOS Peru and the Peruvian Delegation of UNESCO have circulated
>>information to all ICOMOS Committees concerning recent thefts of textiles
>>at the Museum of Ica in Peru, and asked us to circulate the information
>>widely. Any help in locating these textiles will be greatly appreciated.
>>Further information, including images of the stolen items are availablef
>>rom: (http://infodome.sdsu.edu/research/guides/quipu/news.shtml#recent).
>>
>>ICOMOS International Secretariat
>>Alberto Martorell, ICOMOS Peru
>>
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>>International Council of Museums (ICOM) - International Election Results
>>
>>Alissandra Cummins from Barbados was elected President of the
>>International Council of Museums (ICOM) on October 8th, 2004, in Seoul
>>(Republic of Korea). It is the first time that ICOM, created in 1946, has
>>elected a woman as President. She succeeds Jacques Perot (France),
>>President of ICOM from 1998 to 2004.
>>
>>Following a degree in Museum Studies in 1989 from Leicester University
>>(United Kingdom), Alissandra Cummins began her career as Research
>>Assistant at the Museum of Mankind (United Kingdom). She became Deputy
>>Director of the Barbados Museum and Historical Society, St. Michael
>>(Barbados), before taking over as Director in 1985.
>>
>>Alissandra Cummins is Chairperson of the Barbados National Commission for
>>UNESCO. She was the Vice-chairperson of ICOM Museum Association of the
>>Caribbean (ICOM-MAC)from 1989 until 1992. From 1998 to 2001, she was a
>>Member of the UNESCO Executive Board. She has widely contributed to the
>>influence and protectionof Cultural Heritage in her country in 1999, by
>>becoming Special Envoy for Cultural Heritage in Barbados.
>>
>>The newly elected Chairperson will be heading an Organisation with a
>>network of 20,000 museums and museum professionals, spread over five
>>continents. In the next three years, Ms. Cummins will chair an Executive
>>Council made up of 16 members, also elected during ICOM's 21st General
>>Assembly in Seoul:
>>
>>Vice-Presidents: Amareswar Galla (Australia) and Martin Schaerer
>>(Switzerland)
>>
>>Treasurer: Nancy Hushion (Canada)
>>
>>Members: Gary Edson (United States); Elisabet Olofsson (Sweden); George
>>Okello Abungu (Kenya); Hans-Martin Hinz (Germany); Per Bjørn Rekdal
>>(Norway); Jongsok Kim (Korea, Rep. of); Michel Van-Praët (France); Tereza
>>C. Moletta Scheiner (Brazil); Marie Christine Van der Sman (Netherlands);
>>W. Richard West, Jr. (United States); Xiangyi Li (China).
>>
>>Ex-officio: Günther Dembski (Austria), Chairperson of the Advisory Committee
>>
>>The Advisory Committee, which is composed of the Chairpersons of the
>>National Committees, International Committees and Affiliated
>>Organisations, elected Günther Dembski (Austria) as Chairperson and
>>Virgil Nitulescu (Romania) as Vice-Chairperson for the period 2004-2007.
>>from the ICOMOS International Secretariat
>>
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>>
>>US/ICOMOS
>>NewsUpdate November 19 2004
>>
>>
>> From the ICOMOS International Scientific Committee on Documentation /
>> CIPA - Call for Abstracts
>>
>>With reference to the CIPA 2005 XX International Symposium "International
>>Cooperation to save the World's Cultural Heritage" which will take place
>>in Turin (Italy) from 27th September to 1st October 2005, we wish to
>>inform you that the update of the official website of the Symposium, with
>>abstract submission procedure, is now available at the following address:
>>www.cipatorino2005.org. Don't miss it!!
>>
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>>
>>5-8 May, 2005. The 8th US/ICOMOS International Symposium, Charleston,
>>South Carolina. The theme for the 8th Symposium will be interpretation
>>and presentation of heritage sites.
>>
>>REMINDER - INTERNATIONAL CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
>>
>> >From the onset of modern preservation, there has been universal
>> agreement that the state and society at large have the duty to preserve
>> heritage sites for the benefit and enrichment of all citizens. For this
>> reason, in order for a site to be recognized and to receive special
>> protection as cultural heritage, there needs to be consensus about its
>> broad significance to society.
>>
>>In the recent past, the concept of heritage in general and of heritage
>>sites in particular has gained widespread acceptance in all the world
>>cultures and at all levels of society. Heritage is no longer limited to
>>the great iconic monuments of the past or the places where great events
>>occurred; it now includes millions of sites that are of vital importance
>>to sectors of society that were once invisible, or even intentionally
>>ignored by dominant cultures. These sites play an important role in
>>fostering peaceful multi-cultural societies, maintaining communal or
>>ethnic identities and serve as the indispensable theater in which the
>>ancient traditions that make each culture a unique treasure are performed
>>periodically, even daily.
>>
>>Qualitatively, too, the concept of heritage has become increasingly
>>complex in terms of its diversity in form and nature. Without forsaking
>>our commitment to sites where great historic events occurred or of great
>>architectural distinction, heritage now includes places once considered
>>ugly, trivial, negative or even unimportant. Under the great umbrella of
>>heritage are now shielded vernacular settlements, early industrial
>>places, sacred indigenous sites, places of memory, sites of conscience
>>and of the recent past, plus once invisible or minuscule sites whose
>>thematic values are reinforced by being linked together in cultural
>>landscapes, heritage areas and cultural corridors. The significance of a
>>heritage site is no longer considered to lie exclusively in its material
>>fabric and spatial qualities; but also in the social uses, communal
>>interactions and traditions that it maintains and that give it special meaning.
>>
>>The values of these new breeds of heritage sites are not as obvious to
>>the common observer as were, for instance, those of the great cathedrals
>>and the grand archaeological monuments of antiquity, whose overwhelming
>>architectural presence largely spoke for itself. But what may be lacking
>>in new heritage categories in terms of architectural magnificence is made
>>up by a range of other values, often not readily obvious in the building
>>fabric nor in the surrounding geography, and that, to be elicited,
>>require a narrative for the fullness of their meaning to be properly
>>conveyed to locals, site visitors and the remote public. This is
>>interpretation and public education.
>>
>>While interpretation is not new to the field of heritage, the need for it
>>brought about by public interest and mass tourism, the reliance of
>>certain heritage categories on it, and the vast possibilities opened by
>>modern technologies all require that the practice of interpretation be
>>examined in depth to develop global consensus on what its goals and
>>acceptable limits are. This need is made more urgent to respond correctly
>>and positively to the pressures and the opportunities created by tourism
>>on the fabric and setting of the site, the local culture and the host
>>communities.
>>
>>This importance of interpretation in every region of the world has led
>>ICOMOS to launch in the spring of this year a profound global discussion
>>on this issue, using the ICOMOS Ename Charter on Interpretation as a
>>stimulus to guide and inform the process. Over the coming years, various
>>ICOMOS bodies, as well as our institutional partners and affinity
>>organizations, will bring together interpretation experts, preservation
>>practitioners, heritage stakeholders, the tourism industry and the
>>concerned general public into this global dialogue. The culmination of
>>this process will likely be the adoption of a doctrinal document on
>>interpretation at the XVIth ICOMOS General Assembly to be held in Quebec
>>in 2008. The 8th US/ICOMOS International Symposium is part of this
>>universal, multi-year effort, and will usher the US preservation
>>community into this international dialogue.
>>
>>The 8th Symposium seeks to expand the understanding of the ethics, the
>>intent, the impact, the implications, the limits and the driving forces
>>behind interpretation of heritage sites, as well as explore how new
>>technologies are being used or could be used. As in past years, this will
>>be accomplished through the presentation (in English, sorry - no
>>simultaneous interpretation will be available) of thought-provoking
>>papers by international speakers who will stimulate discussion by
>>presenting novel ideas, reflecting deeply on past experiences of success
>>and failure, identifying new challenges and/or provide innovative or
>>successful case studies from all regions of the world.
>>
>>CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: The US/ICOMOS Symposium Content Committee hereby
>>issues a global call for abstracts from which to select speakers at the
>>8th International Symposium. In order to balance the program content, the
>>Committee is looking for abstracts that address the following
>>inter-connected issues:
>>
>>1. Doctrine and Policy: Issues of ethics, limits, authenticity,
>>inclusiveness, sustainability, stakeholder participation, linkage of
>>tangible and intangible values, etc.
>>
>>2. Technologies and Infrastructure: Site presentation, reconstruction,
>>signage, oral and living history, interactive participation, virtual
>>reality, son-et-lumiere, nocturnal lighting, vistation path, the role of
>>the site museum, etc
>>
>>3. Case Studies: Individual structures, historic urban districts,
>>archaeological sites (including underwater), places of memory, cultural
>>landscapes and corridors, vernacular living settlements, religious
>>structures, sacred indigenous sites, etc.
>>
>>4. Target Audiences - Cultural / heritage tourism, religious pilgrimage,
>>local vs. regional vs. international, age groups, children and schools,
>>academics and scholars, etc.
>>
>>PROCEDURES: Abstracts of 500 words, in English only, plus one optional
>>illustration, maximum, will be accepted up to 8 a.m 2 January 2005 /
>>Washington time. Fax or e-mail (latter is preferred method of
>>transmission- Microsoft Word format only) your abstract with your contact
>>information (name, institutional affiliation if any, mailing address,
>>phone, fax and e-mail, all written in the same page of the abstract
>>attachment) to: Fax: 1-202-842-1861 or e-mail
>>[log in to unmask] Authors selected to present their papers will be
>>notified by 1 February 2004 and given the proper technical instructions
>>for the final submittal and at that time, they will also be informed of
>>the monetary travel stipend that may be offered. Full final paper and
>>illustrations, in electronic format will be due in US/ICOMOS by 15 April
>>2005.To secure the best papers without being influenced by the individual
>>financial resources available to those submitting abstracts, US/ICOMOS
>>annually makes every effort to secure, but cannot guarantee, funds to
>>cover travel, lodging, meals and registration costs of all selected speakers.
>>
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>>
>>CALL FOR ABSTRACTS - A Critical Look at Authenticity and Historic
>>Preservation - The 5th National Forum on Preservation Practice.
>>Programmed to be held in the Spring of 2006. Contact Janet Foster
>>[log in to unmask]
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>President, World Archaeological Congress
>Department of Archaeology, Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide,
>SA. 5001. Australia
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>Till July, 2005
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Research Assistant
Department of Archaeology
Flinders University,
GPO Box 2100
Adelaide, 5001
South Australia
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