Had a fantastic time @TAG_UCL_IoA #TAG2019UCL. Thanks to all the organisers and especially to the organisers of the #MuseumArchaeology session @mokersel and @aliceestevenson for letting me present. It was a fantastic session and a great conference.
It would be cool if the #archaeoswag pencils were 6H so you could use them on permatrace. #tag2019ucl
I should have guessed I'd eventually see a phallic Roman amulet #tag2019ucl
Well this is going to be right up my alley. Next paper asks what makes an action ritual? #tag2019ucl
Miles Russell - foundation mythology provided a blueprint for power in post roman period (which continues to this day). Very relevant to nationalism discussion yesterday too #tag2019ucl
Final session of @TAG_UCL_IoA for me is Fact or Fiction: the power of communities with knowledge of their pasts. #tag2019ucl
#tag2019ucl seals from Mohenjo-Daro and other sites are fascinating. I'll definitely be looking at the corpus online.
And last, but certainly not least in #tag7 Natalia Morages + Manuel Gonzalez....
Godzilla AND Indian Jones!
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Rethinking categories of artifacts in the iron age to rely less on whether it is exotic is very interesting. Implicit bias in favour of classical or imported items might distort our idea of their importance #tag2019ucl
Popularity of objects from another culture does not necessarily mean culture change #tag2019ucl
Day 3 of @TAG_UCL_IoA Am at The Lives and Deaths of historic buildings session. At the mo: @KateGilesYork University of York, Ways of telling the story of the English parish church. Standing room only! #tag2019ucl
The way we see artifacts today might appear just as silly in 50 years as old antiquarian views do to us #tag2019ucl
One thing about attending an academic conference is that I'm sometimes struck by how pretentious our vocabulary can be sometimes. Working in commercial archaeology I usually aim to be unambiguous and simple in my writing. #tag2019ucl
@LivNilssonStutz kicks off #tag7 with a wonderful paper on Ravensbrück Camp - artefact production as an act of resistance. #tag2019ucl
Off to @TAG_UCL_IoA to help run #tag7 Powerful Artefacts with @pre_historic and Prof Peter Wells. Come and say hello!! Will be a great session #tag2019ucl
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I love a good culture nerd disco. Archaeologists are terrible but enthusiastic dancers. #tag2019ucl
People in the session on nationalism who are interested in the Leuchter Report and "Dr Death" should check out the @idsgpod podcast as they did an episode a while ago which discusses it in depth #tag2019ucl
People with divergent ancestry in the past aren't referred to as "mixed race" because it is anachronistic #tag2019ucl
Tom Booth makes a good point that the inherent concept of "ancestors" embedded in common public archaeology narratives is problematic; implies that people have more in common with distant past than people in the present. #tag2019ucl
Curious how many times David Cameron has come up so far at #tag2019ucl
Made it to day 2 of @TAG_UCL_IoA #tag2019ucl! At session Archaeological architectures. Incl. how buildings learn, how buildings depend, how buildings extend...
#tag2019ucl "memory is eradicating history" a statement in the archaeology and nationalism session which rings very true for me right now.
