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Assemblage 5
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Assemblage
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5
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2000
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Date Of Issue From:2000
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20 Jan 2002
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Ethnicity, race and the archaeology of the Atlantic slave trade
Dan Hicks
A paper that aims to provide a theoretical framework for the study of ethnicity in the post-medieval period. An alternative theoretical framework emphasising the global context of cultural interaction is presented. As an example, in the study of West Indian colonial societies of the seventeenth and CO: eighteenth centuries it is thought that ethnic identity cannot be considered in isolation from the extreme power relations of racial slavery, and that the application of the more common `individual choice' interpretative model in the expression and negotiation of historical identities is therefore problematic. In this light, the role of Bristol City Museum in recent successful attempts to present the multicultural heritage of Bristol's historical involvement in the Atlantic slave trade in is outlined. The potential for the new `inclusive' agenda provided by this initiative to be applied to future archaeological practice is discussed.
Taking English archaeology into the next millennium -- a personal review of the state of the art
Adrian M Chadwick
Examines the present state of English developer-funded archaeology, some of the difficulties that it is experiencing, and some possible ways of ameliorating these problems. Based on the author's personal experience and anecdotal evidence from other practitioners.
Philosophy from the ground up: an interview with Alison Wylie
Kathryn Denning
People, things and archaeological knowledge: an exploration of the significance of fetishism in archaeology
Chris G Cumberpatch
Addresses the issue of fetishism and assesses its value as a way of understanding attitudes to archaeology and some of its objects of study, the material traces of human action in the past. Considers how the use of the concept of fetishism opens up the possibility of an internal critique of archaeological practice using case studies to suggest that archaeological knowledge can be fetishised with particular consequences for the discipline as a cultural practice characterised by a degree of self-awareness and self-interrogation.
Electronic scanning: an alternative to photographing glass beads and other small archaeological artefacts
Andy Towle
Martin Ashton
A note drawing attention to the advantages of scanning glass beads (and other small archaeological artefacts) as an effective, cheap, rapid and simple alternative to conventional photography. This article is intended as a guide to others interested in trying out the same technique.
Aspects of the development of public assembly in the Danelaw
Sam Turner
The aim of this essay is to investigate aspects of the development of public assembly in the Danelaw area of early medieval England using topographic, place-name and archaeological evidence for hundred and wapentake meeting-places. The article considers aspects of the Anglo-Saxon tradition of public assembly, and assesses the probable origins of the system. It then compares the system of meeting-places in the Danelaw with moot-sites in other areas of Anglo-Saxon England. The article attempts to outline topics such as the different functions of meeting-places and the changing rationale behind meeting-place locations. This leads to suggestions about the antiquity of the system of public administration in the Danelaw and the nature of Scandinavian settlement in eastern England.
On the evolution of human aesthetic preferences
Andrew T Chamberlain
Reviews some human visual aesthetic preferences that may have originated in the species' distant evolutionary past. These preferences include evolved responses to natural landscapes, symmetry preferences, and criteria of facial attractiveness. The discussion employs a very general definition of aesthetics, summarised as `mental appreciation of the shape or embellishment imposed on raw materials', in which the term `appreciation' primarily denotes an involuntary emotional response to a stimulus, rather than the deliberate intellectual stance adopted by the modern professional or philosophical aesthete.
Castles and the children of Alfred
Bob Hamilton
Using Ella Sofia Armitage's 1912 work The Early Norman Castles of the British Isles as a case study this paper considers pieces of work that are cited as a matter of routine where the discipline may instead benefit from a more thorough critical scrutiny of the work. Serious flaws in Armitage's arguments are claimed and attributed to her mindset and the selectivity of the evidence chosen to support her conclusions. The author's conclusions are not only based on Armitage's book but also her notebooks, sources and other writings, as well as the writings of Clark and other contemporaries that highlighted CO: apparent problems with her work.
Missing, presumed buried? Bone diagenesis and the under-representation of Anglo-Saxon children
Jo Buckberry
The issue of the preservation of the remains of children must be addressed before a range of cultural explanations are suggested regarding the frequency (or absence) of juvenile burials at any cemetery site.
Estimating Osteological Health in Ancient Egyptian Bone via Applications of Modern Radiological Technology.
Carol Haigh
