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Public Archaeol 7 (2)
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Title:
Public Archaeol 7 (2)
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Series:
Public Archaeology
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Volume:
7 (2)
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Journal
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Editor:
Neal Ascherson
Francis P McManamon
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Publisher:
Maney Publishing
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Year of Publication:
2008
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BIAB (The British & Irish Archaeological Bibliography (BIAB))
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http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/maney/pua
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29 Jul 2008
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Evaluating community archaeology in the UK
Faye Simpson
Howard Williams
69 - 90
The article considers the boom in projects utilising the phrase `community archaeology', which take many different forms and have ranged from the public face of research and developer-funded programmes to projects run by museums, archaeological units, universities, and archaeological societies. Community archaeology also encapsulates those projects run by communities themselves or in dialogue between `professional' and `amateur' groups and individuals. It is suggested that many of these projects are driven by a desire for archaeology to meet a range of perceived educational and social values in bringing about knowledge and awareness of the past in the present, and that these are often claimed as successful outputs of community projects. The paper argues that appropriate criteria and methodologies for evaluating the efficacy of these projects have yet to be designed. It asks what, and who, community archaeology is for, and whether it is effectively meeting its targets. Focusing on the authors' experiences of directing community archaeology projects, together with the ongoing research assessing the efficacy of community archaeology projects in the UK, the paper aims to set out two possible methodologies: one of self-reflexivity, and one of ethnoarchaeological analysis for evaluating what community archaeology actually does for communities themselves.
People make fire: archaeology and the art of Sonja Stiefel
Troy Lovata
101 - 113
The paper examines the work of contemporary American painter Sonja Stiefel and her images of people using ancient tools to start fires. Her art reconstructs the past, but is itself built on her present-day attempts physically to replicate ancient technologies.
The state we're in on the eve of the World Archaeological Congress (WAC) 6: archaeology in Ireland vs corporate takeover
Margaret Ronayne
114 - 129
The author argues that the employment of most archaeologists by private companies on temporary, short-term contracts, in tandem with increasing corporate control of universities and pressure on academics to orient teaching to meet the needs of industry, are expressions of expansion by multi-national corporations. She presents a case study of the process unfolding in the Republic of Ireland, focusing on road development and the role of archaeology. The example used is the M3 motorway and the threat it poses to the landscape of the Hill of Tara. It is argued that questions of professional ethics and standards, particularly professionals' accountability to the community, have been sidelined, and that WAC 6 holds a pivotal role in deciding for or against archaeologists' accountability to communities, and the involvement of the profession with cultural destruction in the private sector.