Our team took part in #WAC10, presenting our latest research on the prehistory of Castelló @uji.es
-GIS & rock engravings
-Levantine rock art conservation
-Heritage outreach via YouTube: @ViatgesprehistoriaCastello
Sharing knowledge in international forums boosts the visibility & impact of our work!
ALAN & The Current Near-Earth Environment See Falchi et al., The New World Atlas of Artificial Night Sky Brightness, 2 Science Advances 6 (2016). Image taken 2025-03-30 showing planet Earth surrounded by multicolored dots representing artificial light in earths orbit. There is essentially nowhere on earth free from artificial light pollution during the nights, not even the center of the deep oceans
ALAN impacts: "Looking at the International Space SALK. 1403 Station's images and videos of Earth's night hemisphere, people generally are only struck by the "beauty" of the City lights, as if they were lights on a Christmas tree. They do not perceive that these are images of pollution. It is like admiring the beauty of the rainbow colors that gasoline produces in water and not recognizing that it is chemical pollution. Awareness must greatly increase for artificial light at night to be perceived not as an always-positive thing, but as the pollutant it really is." Ealchi & Bará Light Pollution is Skyrocketing, Science 379, 234-235 (2023).
Some information about how artificial light has impacted our Earth as well as orbital environment in #space
#archaeology #heritage #pollution #WAC10
Peace-washing of nuclear 'dark' heritage: Higher Political Influence and Ideology Sites Of Death and Suffering Darkest Lower Political Influence and Ideology Sites Associated with Death and Suffering Lightest Stone, Philip R. 2006. "A dark tourism spectrum: Towards a typology of death and macabre related tourist sites, attractions and exhibitions." Tourism: An International Interdisciplinary Journal 54(2): 145-160.
As a new geo-chronological era and conceptual framework, the Anthropo…. involves both the centring and decentring of human beings. It acknowledges the deep ecological and atmospheric impact of a terraforming human species, but it also involves the realization that humans are no longer (or never were) able to fully control the trajectories of the things of their own making. The challenge to classic humanist thought is obvious; it requires that we think through the planetary reach of a material heritage that carries our faded signature but which nevertheless has embarked on journeys that were neither planned nor anticipated in advance. Thus, if this "unruly heritage" in and of the Anthropocene is to be conceptualized, valued and "preserved", this will hardly be realized cultural". through stabilization, purification or identification as either "natural" or" Torgeir Rinke Bangstad and Póra Pétursdóttir (eds) Heritage Ecologies 2022, p.11
Principles of Community Respect • Uphold professional boundaries • Respecting our differences • Respecting place and the environment • Respectful interactions • Respecting community members • Be accountable for your actions Thoughtfulness • Be considerate of others • Be thoughtful and patient Be supportive and kind Be generous and empathetic • Be reflexive Be safe and aware of others Collaboration • Build community and develop trust • Have integrity • Support each other • Be collaborative, not competitive • Recognize everyone's contributions • Celebrate each other Communication • Practise open communication • Be honest • Speak out, share your needs • Create safe spaces • Clear roles and responsibilities • Communicate frequently Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology
NO STONE UNTURNED PROJECT = 18,500 ANCESTORS LOCATED OVER 2500 INSTITUTIONS, Let our Ancestors rest More than 122,000 of our Ancestors' remains that have been taken from their resting places are still in museums and other institutions. When will they be returned? Current location of reported Native American human remains not yet returned to tribes under NAGPRA. Data courtesy National NAGPRA Program
Some thoughtful slides with information regarding:
•nuclear heritage
•peacewashing of dark tourism sites
•the principals of community
•no stone unturned project (the process of returning Ancestors from problematic institutions)
#Archaeology #history #heritage #WAC10
I desperately want hybrid conferences to work; there are so many good evironmental, personal, and equity reasons. But #WAC10 is showing once again that unless a better system is developed for the online folks, it's hardly worth doing. $500 AUD for an online experience that barely functions 🏺
Great to present on sovereign wreck diplomacy & Australian defence UCH in foreign waters at #WAC10 as part of our AIMA session on global maritime archaeology in Guam, Aotearoa NZ, South Africa, Australia, Indonesia, Timor-Leste, India, Greece, Colombia, Vietnam &Germany! @johnkmccarthy.bsky.social
Bill’s presentation was a wonderful start to the session on community, and to the whole day! #WAC10
Fabulous contribution to our WWII session! #WAC10
AIMA-sponsored Maritime Archaeology session co-convened with @sea-greeny.bsky.social for #wac10 is all complete! We had a great time and thanks to all presenters! 🔱
James Hunter @seamuseum.bsky.social wraps up our #WAC10 Global Maritime Archaeology session with a talk on post-19th century VOC shipwrecks in Australia, including new discovery Koning Willem (lost 1857 near Robe, SA)
@johnkmccarthy.bsky.social
Important case study at #WAC10 from Ralph Behr (Wessex/Trident Archéologie) on archaeological mitigation demonstrating work on densely distributed submerged landscape sites and an early 18th-century wreck in the Baltic Sea ⚓🛠️ Excavation, 3D documentation & redeposition #MaritimeArchaeology
Important insights from Carlos del Cairo Hurtado & Jesús Aldana Mendoza at #WAC10 on deep-sea heritage: the San José Galleon. 🏴☠️⚓ How can we safeguard its archaeological context from natural & human impacts? A crucial interdisciplinary challenge. #MaritimeArchaeology #WAC2025 @sea-greeny.bsky.social
📊 Weile Li (Univ. of Hong Kong) presents a structured analysis of shipwrecks in East & SE Asia (7th–13th C) using database frameworks, typologies & regression analysis. Ambitious quant meets deep time. #WAC10 #MaritimeArchaeology #ShipwreckStudies
At #WAC10, Mauro Frontini and team virtually presented their methodology for reconstructing historical maritime structures—using Aegina’s ancient harbor (Greece) as a case study. ⚓🏛️ #MaritimeArchaeology #WAC2025
Fascinating talk at #WAC10 by Sumit Kumar Pandey (Kongunadu College of Engineering & Technology) on the Chola Kingdom’s far-reaching influence on maritime archaeology. 🌊⚓ A powerful reminder of South Asia’s seafaring past! #MaritimeArchaeology #WAC2025
Assistant Professor Saravanan, University of Calicut, on locating the ancient city of Muziris #WAC10
Picture of a desk with a computer screen and keyboard. On the screen a slide says End of Presentation, 10th World Archaeological Congress. In front, a messy ball of yarn leads to a striped sock on knitting needles
#WAC10 presentation done and sock 2 coming along nicely 🧶🏺
Kicking off the WWII maritime archaeology session with Dr Fiona Earl of the Northern Territory Heritage Branch on the recent discovery of a Bristol Beaufort aircraft in the NT #WAC10
The big winner of the #WAC10 conference is definitely the slushie machine of Austral Archaeology
Flinders Maritime Archaeology program @flindersmap.bsky.social recent graduate Sasha Joura on her community archaeology Masters research in Rakiura/Stewart Island, New Zealand #WAC10
Dr Bill Jeffrey of the University of Guam opens the AIMA-sponsored Maritime Archaeology session at #WAC10 with a talk on #communityarchaeology for maritime heritage in Micronesia
⚓️ 🌊 Today’s the day - our Global Approaches to Maritime Archaeology session is on all day in DFL1.11. We’ve got shipwrecky books for sale and free nautical-themed tattoos courtesy of AIMA, plus sessions on community, WWII, ports and harbours, and wrecks! #WAC10 🌊⚓️
Dr Antonia Thomas had a very early start yesterday when she co-convened a session at the World Archaeological Congress in Darwin, Australia.
#WAC10 #archaeology #Graffiti #Orkney #ThinkUHI #UHIOrkney
Lovely story about Professor Claire Smith, former president of the World Archaeological Congress, and her work with the Barunga community. #WAC10 🏺
Read the demands of @archagainstaparth.bsky.social for the @worldarch.bsky.social below, and be sure to do so before Friday’s plenary session where they will be voted on. We must strive for a #wacwithoutapartheid
#WAC10 #archaeology #🏺
Day 3 of #WAC10 is tour day! Very excited to be going on a helicopter over the beautiful Kakadu
You can use our posts or create your own. Post on your feeds (not temporary stories), on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Bluesky, TikTok, and use the hashtags #WAC10 and #wacwithoutapartheid #archaeology #🏺
It has been indicated that a vote will be held at Friday’s plenary session, and we hope @worldarch.bsky.social will implement the policies we included in our March 31st demands. We need you to flood the #WAC10 hashtag until then, so nobody at the congress can say they didn’t know #archaeology #🏺
