Contact: my 2 min soundpiece for our #TAG45 paper made from foreshore and Thames field recordings at #Deptford, walking & talking with @drclaireharris.bsky.social, Helen Chittock, Tom Chivers, @lesleymcf.bsky.social
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@sarahjanebutler.bsky.social here it is!
🎉 Fantastic news from #TAG45 @buarchanth.bsky.social - Highly Commended in the Don Henson prize for debut paper,
@samscomo.bsky.social for his paper "A building lineage? Palimpsests, brochs, and complex identity in the Scottish Iron Age" #EdinArch #Archaeology #IronAge #Scotland Congrats Sam!
Re: TAG, Hodder.
I have something to say which I feel is important from this weekend’s #TAG45. It is not about the event itself – the team did an amazing job and it felt so great to be back at TAG for the first time since Chester in 2018. However…
It was an absolute joy to co-organise, with Andy Needham, the #TAG45 session on experimental archaeology and cognitive and behavioural complexity. Such fun sharing experiences with fellow exp. archaeologists!
I'm really happy that my first post here is about #TAG45
Thanks @helenshampton.bsky.social for organising such a wonderful session! It was a real pleasure to participate.
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Had a great time presenting at #TAG45 in the experimental archaeology session fantastically organised by @helenshampton.bsky.social and Andy Needham! I used the Oldowan-Acheulean transition to argue we shouldn’t forget macroevolutionary patterns have microevolutionary roots!
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Come see the @thesanctuary.bsky.social stall @tag45.bsky.social #TAG45 where ancient craft and bodily movement theory meet wellbeing 😊👍
An upright, stiff, sullen human figure, resembling a standing stone or a monumental stele with a carved face. Crossed lines around the torso give the impression of a strait jacket or restrictive binding, not unlike an Egyptian mummy. A star drawn above this statuesque figure with a stony face, in its sarcophagus-like confinement, calls to mind the negative truth content which, in Aesthetic Theory, Theodor W. Adorno located in Paul Celan's poetry which imitates 'a language beneath the helpless language of human beings', which is the language 'of the dead speaking of stones and stars'. A sinuous, wavy pattern of particles or dots, weaving around the trapped figure, gives the impression of a wished-for flexibility. Below this image is an italicised caption which reads: "You have lived in bodily rigidity, your present aberration, for only six thousand years." What this statement suggests is that such 'megalithic captivity' arose in relatively recent historical circumstances according to the timescale of human existence and is not a fate determined for ever, but can be overcome.
The attempt to retrieve spiritual experience (geistige Erfahrung) from megalithic captivity and the 'stony cosmos of indifference' (Bielik-Robson) resonates with William Steig's illustration in Wilhelm Reich's 'Listen, Little Man!' #Archaeology #tag45 thegrammarofmatter.wordpress.com/2023/09/10/s...
I want to claim that 41 is too old to dance at full force to Darude - Sandstorm, but I can't be shown up by the sexagenarians on the dance floor. @tag45.bsky.social #tag45
Great to see @megsdigs.bsky.social and The Sanctuary at #TAG45 today #theoreticalarchaeology
#archaeology #conference
Mike O'Brien closed off our session by presenting the work to rewrite his well known book on applying evolutionary archaeology, 25 years later. Inspiring a new generation of evolutionary archaeologists! #TAG45
Want to experience the #Tag45 @tag45.bsky.social conference at teabreak from below and above?
Of course you do 😊👍
If you're a commercial archaeologist or an academic researcher curious about how to responsibly share 3D models of human remains, please check out my virtual talk on the Mortuary Memes #Tag45 session blog post on Archaeodeath @archaeodeathprof.bsky.social @tag45.bsky.social #archaeology #scicomm
I'm wearing a waistcoat with pocketwatches
Matched my waistcoat to my talk!
(Come along to session 23 at TAG if you want to find out the connection)
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Loving being at #TAG45 after 6 years since my last one!
Touching tributes to two huge losses to our field from Julian Thomas and Win Scutt, and Ian Hodder's riveting keynote on current theoretical approaches to archaeology
S12 session at #TAG45 is proving to be all I hoped and more. Some truly great work being done in the field of archaeoastronomy, and I'm looking forward to what will come next.
Me watching Mel Giles' talk that spins together so many gorgeous threads of archives, archaeology, history, objects, analysis, and intimacies (inc of trowelblazers) ❤️
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We're at #TAG45!
Pamphlets are around, if you have any questions or fancy a chat, look out for Jack @archaeorowe.bsky.social who will be around all weekend.
Correction: 45th #tag45
Today our BABAO Trade and Sale of Human Remains Taskforce has published a poster at
@tag45.bsky.social
about digital sales of the dead. Check out
@archaeodeathprof.bsky.social blog to learn more!
#archaeology #scicomm #TAG45 #anthropology
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I'm amazed at anyone who has the energy to conference after this semester. Good luck to all of y'all at #TAG45. Leicester's (@archanchistleic.bsky.social) contingent is as kick-ass as ever.
Signage out at Bournemouth University guiding people to the Fusion Building, home of the Theoretical Archaeology Group conference 2024
It's early morning and the Bournemouth University Servo Robots are out and about, ready to guide delegates to @tag45.bsky.social #Tag45 which starts this afternoon!!
Photo of the farmlands of the Walton Basin, Powys, a bowl-shaped, Neolithic ceremonial landscape in the Welsh Marches, taken from one of the ridges at the Basin's northern edge looking southeast, down and across the valley. The positions of the various and varied Neolithic monuments have been drawn in and labelled, including: a causewayed enclosure, two cursuses, four palisaded enclosures of differing arrangements, a large ring ditch, and double pit alignment jutting from one of the palisaded enclosures. The Hindwell Cursus (7) is the second-longest known in Britain at 4.6km long, after the 10km long Dorset Cursus, and spans the entire picture (what can be seen is approximately the middle third). The Hindwell Palisaded Enclosure (4) encloses and area of 34 hectares, and is by far the largest in Neolithic Britain, and the second-largest in Neolithic Europe after the double-ditched and palisaded enclosure at Urmitz, Rhine Valley, Germany.
A little snippet from the paper I'll be presenting at #TAG45 in Bournemouth next weekend
Looking forward to this #TAG45 🙂
This is huge for me, considering I am quite literally going for broke on this PhD to get it out of the way. Sometimes, Mondays aren't so bad!
Can't wait for #TAG45, not been since 2018, lots of folks to catch up with.
Right then you lovely lot,
Who's going to #TAG45 in Bournemouth next month?!
