The World Archaeological Congress

1. Executive News
2. WAC News
3. News from WAC Members
4. Forthcoming Conferences and Events
· 2006 Conferences
· 2007 Conferences
· Call for papers
5. News Items
· Publications
· Other items
6. Excerpts from other archaeological newsletters (used with permission)
6(a) SALON (three editions from October and September 2006)

6(b) ICOMOS (Australia) (three editions from October and
September 2006)

7. Situation vacant

1. Executive News
I am pleased to acknowledge the range of contributions that members have
made to this issue of the WAC eNewsletter. It is important to have news about
members' publications, the conferences they are involved with and other activities, so we are very grateful to the people who send us information for inclusion in the newsletter.

WAC's 20th anniversary occurred in September 2006. For those who may not
know the background, the genesis of WAC arose out of fundamental
disagreements concerning the organization of the 11th International Congress of
the International Union for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences (UISPP), which
was planned for Southampton, England, in 1986. Against a backdrop of growing
violence in South Africa, and in light of the United Nations cultural and academic bans against Botha's apartheid regime, the city of Southampton decided to ban
South African participants from the conference, and the Southampton organizers of this event decided to support this decision. They felt this was a moral issue,
and that it was time for archaeology to fully engage with the social and political
dimensions of the discipline. From the point of view of the UISPP, the issue was one of academic freedom, and about supporting colleagues from all parts of the
world, irrespective of political persuasion. The outcome of this debate was the
reallocation of the 11th Congress of the UISPP, to Germany, in 1987—and the
birth of WAC, in the form of the First Congress, which was held in Southampton,
England, in September,1986.

For a number of years, an uneasy relationship existed between the UISPP and
WAC. Though there were several earlier attempts, the first serious signs of
warming occurred in 2003 when Luiz Oosterbeek spoke at the Plenary session of
WAC5, held in Washington, DC, and invited WAC members to the 15th UISPP Congress in Lisboa, Portugal. Numerous discussions and meetings followed
this, one outcome of which was that I accepted an invitation to speak in my capacity as President of WAC at the opening session of the 15th Congress of the
UISPP, in September, 2006. This speech is available on the WAC web site.
Briefly, the core of my message was that this UIPPS meeting provided an
opportunity for rapprochement between the UISPP and WAC. While the
disagreements of 1986 arose from a particular set of historical circumstances, in 2006 archaeologists are faced by many challenges, and we are stronger if we
address these challenges together. Today, a spirit of cooperation informs the
relationships between WAC and the IUPPS. While each organisation has specific, though interrelated, roles in the global community, we are developing cooperative
relationships that benefit the members of both organizations.

Only 20 years after its genesis, WAC is accomplishing remarkable things. We
routinely hold InterCongresses in various parts of the world, we publish a wide
range of book series, we provide small amounts of funding for projects that
support Indigenous agendas, or scholars in economically disadvantaged
countries, and we are developing programs that make a significant difference to
teaching and learning in those parts of the world that most need assistance. The
World Archaeological Congress' Global Libraries program, for example, provides books for 50 institutional libraries in economically disadvantaged countries.
Under the able leadership of Sally May and her colleagues, over 2000 books,
journals and CDs have been donated to this program since January, 2006. WAC
covers the costs of postage, and WAC members administer the program,
package and post the books, and solicit sponsorship to cover postage costs, or to allow libraries to purchase new books of their choice (rather than being dependent on what is donated to the organization). This is a wonderful program, and anyone who wishes to help with its development, or to provide support in other ways, should contact Sally May directly (see below).

The Global Libraries Program reminds me to remind readers that WAC is a
member organization, in which every accomplishment is achieved through the
volunteered labour of members. The success of our organization directly reflects the commitment and hard work of our members.

Claire Smith, for the Executive

2. WAC News
Global Libraries Project

The Global Libraries Project is a World Archaeological Congress initiative, which
aims to develop the archaeological literary collections of libraries in developing
countries. By supporting such libraries we hope to assist archaeological and
cultural heritage management students and professionals to undertake their study and their work. Currently 50 libraries from 37 different countries are receiving donations.

The Global Libraries Project relies on the donations of WAC members and
affiliated organizations, and since January of this year over 2000 books, journals and CDs have been donated. This makes a big difference to the 50 Global Libraries. Members are invited to make a donation of books or a financial contribution to the program (so that new books can be purchased for the libraries).

Further information is available on the following website:
Website: http://www.worldarchaeologicalcongress.org/site/globallibraries.php
Enquiries: sally.may@flinders.edu.au

Invitation to WAC members

Interdisciplinary initiative: Archaeozoology session in Jamaica

A session entitled "Scales and feathers: an environmental/cultural perspective"
has been accepted within the theme: Archaeology of the Environment and
Cultural Landscapes, at the WAC InterCongress, Kingston, Jamaica, 2027
May, 2007. While the session abstract will be available to those interested in the
meeting, I would like to reach out to the broader community of WAC and beyond.
The aim of this session is to further cooperation between archaeologists and
zoologists on a global forum. Counting on international perspectives represented
by WAC, I would like to invite participants to discuss how the development of
nonutilitarian animal use, especially, was influenced by environmental vs.
cultural factors.

The title is a reminder that, in spite of their importance as lato sensu
archaeological artifacts, animal bone finds tend to be rather insufficient in tackling
complex cultural questions in themselves. Therefore, I would like to also include
papers on historical/ethnographic sources relating to animals. A global
interdisciplinary exchange will broaden the scope of understanding
zooarchaeological finds as true artefacts, further elucidating crosscultural
variability in archaeological subjects such as value, mobility and tradition.

László Bartosiewicz, Session Organiser President, International Council for Archaeozoology email: bartwicz@yahoo.com

Institute of Archaeological Sciences H1088
Budapest, Muzeum krt. 4/B Hungary

3. News from WAC Members
from Dr Cornelius Holtorf University of Lund

A silver ring discovered by Swedish archaeologists in Portugal

A silver ring was the most precious artefact found this year by an international
excavation team investigating a monumental prehistoric grave in southern
Portugal. The ring had been lost days earlier by Barbara, herself a member of the
archaeological team.

Cornelius Holtorf, an Assistant Professor from the Department of Archaeology and Ancient History at the University of Lund (Sweden) directs the project atMonte da Igreja near Évora in the central Alentejo. He says: "We are interested in the entire history of the site. A find from several millennia ago, when the monument was being constructed and used for the first time, is as important to us as a find from yesterday."

Holtorf explains that Neolithic people built the imposing collective burial site in
order to alter the landscape forever. The large granite slabs were to ensure that
the structure lasted into the future. Some five thousand years later, the imposing
structure still stands on the same hill. But with the original intentions of the
builders lost, later generations had to come up with their own interpretations of
the site.

The new results from this spring confirm that already in the late Bronze Age, the
grave chamber was reused although its precise purpose at that time is not
known. Later, in the Roman period, a small farm building was built next to the
monument. At that time, the 4th century AD, the ancient grave had become a
quarry and convenient part of an animal enclosure. Lost coins and other artefacts suggest that the site was subsequently revisited in the 11th, 17th and 19th
centuries. It was not until the middle of the 20th century that archaeologists first
recorded the grave at Monte da Igreja.

Holtorf insists that his project, which is funded by the Swedish Science Council
(Vetenskapsrådet), is but the most recent episode in a long history of reusing and
reinterpreting the prehistoric monument. Seen in this light, the silver ring is archaeological evidence for the presence of the contemporary excavation team.

It is also evidence for the craftsmanship of a modern silversmith and the wealth
of the archaeologist who owned it.

"At the end of the season, we took photographs of the ring and then returned it
to Barbara", says Holtorf with a smile.
Dr Cornelius Holtorf
Project homepage: http://members.chello.se/cornelius/Igreja/

contact: cornelius.holtorf@ark.lu.se

from Nigel Hetherington
Theban Mapping Project

The Theban Mapping Project announces the publication of the Valley of the
Kings Site Management Masterplan on the TMP's website :

http://www.thebanmappingproject.com

The Valley of the Kings (Wadi Biban el Mouluk) on the West Bank of the Nile in
Luxor, in the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a World Heritage site whose
archaeological fame and economic importance as a tourist destination are
internationally recognized. The result of its popularity has been a massive
increase in visitor numbers over the last decade, now often exceeding 7,000
visitors every day. This number is guaranteed to increase in future years. Without
carefully prepared site management plans, the very existence of this fragile
resourcecould be seriously threatened. In the spring of 2004, the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) commissioned the Theban Mapping Project to prepare a site management masterplan for the Valley. This project was generously supported by the World Monuments Fund
(WMF), and the American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE), and several private
donors.

This 'final draft for public consulation' is now available for you to download and
we would very much like to have your feedback regarding our proposal for the
future of this very important site.

Nigel J. Hetherington
Conservation Manager Theban Mapping Project

Nigel also provides an address for his Blog:
http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/

From Paul Rainbird
University of Wales, Lampeter

Archaeologists from the University of Wales, Lampeter have continued over the
northern summer to work in various places including Cyprus and Scotland. The
Department's research and training excavations at Strata Florida Abbey in Wales have continued under the direction of Professor David Austin with accomplishments this season including exciting results from geophysical survey. We continue to offer degrees in archaeology in Lampeter and Carmarthen and at postgraduate level we are in the process of validating new programmes in the Archaeology of the Biblical Lands, to be convened by the newly appointed Dr Andrew Petersen, and a unique parttime MA in Archaeoastronomy and Landscape Archaeology. Our professional services in environmental archaeology and dendrochronology have recently been enhanced by the launch of a new website at www.lamp.ac.uk/uwlas/

This summer saw the retirement of Professor Andrew Fleming, who became
Professor Emeritus. Also retired is the longserving Departmental Administrator Mrs Maureen Hunwicks. Dr Greg Stevenson has come to the end of his contract and becomes an Honorary Research Fellow as does Dr Trevor Kirk and Mr Robin Heath. Dr Andrew Petersen has been appointed Lecturer in Near Eastern Archaeology and we are aiming to appoint to a new lectureship in Classical Archaeology. Dr Paula Jones has been appointed as our archaeology tutor based at Trinity College, Carmarthen. We also have two new appointments in
anthropology.

For further information about the Department visit our Website at

www.lamp.ac.uk/archanth/

Paul Rainbird
Department of Archaeology & Anthropology University of Lampter, Wales

4. Forthcoming Conferences and Events
CONFERENCES 2006

CHAT 2006

CHAT 2006:
Friday 10 Sunday
12 November 2006
Bristol, UK

The programme for the CHAT 2006 meeting in Bristol is online at

http://www.bris.ac.uk/archanth/events/chat2006.html

All enquiries:
Dan.Hicks@bris.ac.uk (Academic Programme) or
Sam.Barlow@bris.ac.uk (Conference Administration).

Constructing PostMedieval
Archaeology in Italy: A New Agenda
University Ca' Foscari of Venice
24 – 25 November 2006

Details of the full programme can be found at the following website:

www.arcmedvenezia.it

The Transformations Conference 2006: Culture and the Environment in
Human Development Australian National University, Canberra, Australia,
2729 November 2006

Full details of the conference can be found at the conference website

http://www.TransformationsConference.com

Cultural Heritage and Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property Rights
A World Archaeological Congress Symposium
Burra, South Australia 3 5 December 2006

Convenors: Claire Smith and Heather Burke, Department of Archaeology,
Flinders University Program Chair: Tim Ormsby

All enquiries:
Claire.smith@flinders.edu.au or Heather.Burke@flinders.edu.au

Quality in Cultural Heritage Management: Assessment Models and
Methods.
The HERITY Proposal
Rome (Italy) December 5 9, 2006

More information is available at the following website:

http://www.herity.it/

HERITY Italia
c/o DRI

V. E. Filiberto, 17
00185 ROMA ITALY +39.06.7049.7920
info@herity.it
CONFERENCES 2007

Conference on Repatriation of Cultural Heritage
Nuuk, Greenland 13 15 February 2007

To mark the International Polar Year of 2007 2008,
The Greenland National
Museum & Archive is hosting an international conference on repatriation of
cultural heritage.

For more details, contact:
Mille Gabriel
mille.gabriel@natmus.dk

Tel: +45 33 47 34 48
Fax: +45 33 47 33 22

CALL FOR PAPERS

VII International Conference on Easter Island and the Pacific Islands:

Migration, Identity, and Cultural Heritage.
Gotland University, Visby, Gotland, Sweden
August 2025, 2007

Session: Seascapes and Island Archaeology

Organisers: Paul Rainbird (University of Wales, Lampeter, Great Britain) and
Owe Ronström (Gotland University, Sweden)

Abstract:

It has for long been accepted that landscapes are polyvocal and are meaningful
to different people in different ways. Anthropologists and archaeologists have
attempted to tease out these multiple meanings and in doing so have given us nuanced understandings of landscape perceptions which have enhanced the
knowledgeofhistoriesandgeographiesofvariousplaces. Itcanbearguedthat
seascapes are equally ingrained with multiple understandings beyond a simple
perception of 'bridge or barrier'. This session invites contributions which
considers the implications of the perception of the sea(s) which is such a feature
of introductory descriptions to Easter Island (i.e. distances to next nearest land,)
and also the implications of Epeli Hau'ofa's 'sea of islands' which reverses the
land/sea relation of island in a sea so common in island archaeology.
Contributions from these perspectives which may be regarded as enhancing our understanding of Easter Island are welcome for any period or place.

Email
proposed title and short abstract to: p.rainbird@lamp.ac.uk

For Conference details, see Website at

www.hgo.se/archaeology/conference2007

5. News Items
Publications

Left Coast Press Inc, to publish One World Archaeology Series and UCL
Press Archaeology Books

Beginning with volume 48, the One World Archaeology series will be published
by Left Coast Press, Inc. The series, edited by Joan Gero, Mark Leone, and
Robin Torrence, contain selections of the papers presented at the WAC
Congresses, held every four years, and InterCongress meetings. Current
volumes were developed from the WAC Congress in Washington, DC in 2003.
These books will be available from our distributors, Univ. Arizona Press, Univ.
British Columbia Press, Berg Publishers. For more information or to order, visit
the Left Coast website: www.LCoastPress.com

Coming in December 2006…

One World Archaeology, Vol. 49

Archaeology to Delight and Instruct

Active Learning in the University Classroom

Edited by Heather Burke and Claire Smith (both at Flinders Univ.)
288 pages Cloth ISBN 9781598742565
$79.00
Paperack ISBN 9781598742572 $29.95

This book presents novel and interesting ways of teaching archaeological concepts and processes to college and university students. Seeking alternatives to the formal lecture format, the
various contributions seek better ways of communicating the
complexities of human behavior and of engaging students in active
learning about the past. This collection of imaginative exercises designed by 20 master instructors on three continents, include role playing, games, simulations, activities, and performance, are all designed to teach archaeological concepts in interesting and engaging
ways. Sponsored by the World Archaeological Congress

Now available:

One World Archaeology, Vol. 48

African ReGenesis Confronting
Social Issues in the Diaspora

Edited Jay B. Haviser (Netherland Antilles Archaeology Dept.) and
Kevin C. MacDonald (UCL)
294 pages Cloth ISBN 9781598742176
$79.00/ Paper ISBN 9781598742831 $34.95

Ripped from motherland and family, ethnically mixed to quell the
potential of uprisings, and brutalized by regimes of hard labor, the
heart the spirit of Africa did not stop beating in the New World.
Rather, it survived and has reemerged; changed by contacts with new
cultures and environments, butstill part of the continuum of African
tradition: an African ReGenesis. This is the first volume in its field
to emphasize the interdisciplinary temporal and geographic comparative
research of archaeology, anthropology, history and linguistics to allow
us to form unique perspectives on broader trends in the transformation
and (re) emergence of African Diaspora cultures. African ReGenesis confirms
that regardless of discipline, from continental Africa to Europe, the Western Hemisphere and Indian Ocean, all diaspora research requires a relevance to modern communities and sensitivity to the interplay with contemporary cultural identities. Historical matters concerning race and cultural diversity remain contentious, even today. African ReGenesis
strikes at the nerve of urgency that the past, present and future globalization of African cultures is a cornerstone of the entire human experience, and it deserves recognition as such.

Future Volumes, available in 2007, include:

A Fearsome Heritage: Diverse Legacies of the Cold War, edited by John
Schofield and Wayne Cocroft (50)

Rethinking Agriculture: Archaeological and Ethnoarchaeological Perspectives,

edited by Timothy P. Denham, José Iriarte, Luc Vrydaghs (51)

Other volumes in preparation for 2007 publication include:

Margaret LeshikarDenton and Pilar Luna Erreguerena (eds.),

Underwater Cultural Heritage in Latin America and the Caribbean

Inés Domingo Sanz, Danae Fiore, and Sally May (eds.), Art and Social Identity

Amy GazinSchwartz and Angèle P. Smith (eds.), Landscapes of Clearance

John Grattan and Robin Torrence (eds.), Living under the Shadow:
Cultural Impacts of Volcanic Eruptions

Yannis Hamilakis and Philip Duke (eds.), Archaeology and Capitalism:
From Ethics to Politics

Patricia Rubertone (ed.), Monuments, Memories and Archaeology of
Place in Native North America

Dan Hicks, Laura McAtackney, and Graham Fairclough (eds.) Envisioning
Landscape: Perspectives and Politics in Archaeology and Heritage

The subject matter of this series is wideranging, reflecting the diverse interests of WAC. WAC gives place to considerations of power and politics in framing archaeological questions and results. WAC also gives place and privilege to minorities who have often been silenced or regarded as beyond capable of making main line contributions to the field. All royalties from the series are used to help the wider work of WAC, including providing the means for less advantaged colleagues to attend WAC conferences, thereby enabling them to
contribute to the development of the academic debate surrounding the study of
the past.

The OneWorld Archaeology series was launched after the first WAC Congress in 1986 in Southhampton, England. Books prior to Volume 48 were published by Routledge.

Left Coast is also proud to announce that it is now publisher of the archaeology list of UCL Institute of Archaeology, formerly published by UCL Press. Generated
from one of the preeminent archaeological institutes in the world, the UCL
publication program will include the best theory, research, pedagogy and

reference materials in archaeology and cognate disciplines, through publishing
exemplary work of scholars worldwide. There are 17 books currently in print from this publications program and another 20 to be published before the end of 2007.

More information on the Left Coast Press website at: www.LCoastPress.com

Archaeolingua Publications

Archaeolingua Foundation is an independent, nonprofit organisation dedicated to interdisciplinary research and connected activities in Archaeology, Linguistics and other related fields.

The following are recent texts published by the Archaeolingua Foundation.

1. Landscape Ideologies, Thomas Meier (ed.)

Contents:

On Landscape Ideologies: An Introduction (Thomas Meier), The Term "Cultural
Landscape"(Ulf Ickerodt), Landscape in Prehistoric Archaeology: Comparing
Western and Eastern Paradigms (Olena V. Smyntyna), Settlement,
Environmentaland
Landscape Archaeology in Eastern Central Europe between
AngloAmerican
Influence and Communist Ideology (Grietje Suhr), The
Archaeology of Lowlands: A Few Remarks on the Methodology of Aerial Survey (Martin Gojda), Debating the Fürstensitz Model: Prolegomena for New Directions in the Archaeology of West Hallstatt Societies (Adriene Baron Tacla), Place
Names and Folk Landscapes in Southern Germany as Archaeological Resources (Matthew Leigh Murray), Our Place in the Landscape? An Archaeologist's Ideology of Landscape Perception and Management (Graham Fairclough), The
EU: In Need of a Supranational View of Cultural Heritage (Anders Högberg), The
Challenge of Bridging the Gap between Landscape Theory and Practice:
Establishing Cultural Heritage Monitoring, the DEMOTEC Example (Birgitte
Skar), Tuscany: Historical Landscapes as Cultural Heritage (Riccardo Lorenzi,
Marinella Pasquinucci, Oreste Signore)

2. The Archaeology of Cult and Death Mercourios Georgiadis and Chrysanthi
Gallou (eds.)

Contents:

Introduction (Mercourios Georgiadis and Chrysanthi Gallou), Death, Display and
Performance: A Discussion of the Mortuary Remains at Çayönü Tepesi (Karina
Croucher), Cultural and Ritual Evidence in the Archaeological Record: Modeled
Skulls from the Ancient Near East (Michelle Bonogofsky), The Peqi'in Cave:

Ancestor Worship in the Chalcolithic Period (Zvi Gal), Religion and Wealth:
Aspects of the Social Dynamic in SouthCentral Crete during the PrePalatial
and ProtoPalatial Periods (Joanne M. A. Murphy), Games and Funerary Beliefs in
ProtoPalatial Crete (Helène Whittaker), Ancestor Worship, Tradition and
Regional Variation in Mycenaean Culture (Chrysanthi Gallou and Mercourios Georgiadis), Priestly Burials in Mycenaean Greece (Christina Aamont), Poor Relations: A Pauper's Cemetery in Poseidonia/Paestum (Mikels Skele), Archaeology of Children: SubAdult Burials during the Iron Age in the TransUrals and Western Siberia (Natalia Berseneva)

For more information about titles and how to place orders contact:
Fruzsina Cseh
Editorial Assistant
Archaeolingua Publications H1014
BudapestÚri utca 49.
Tel./Fax: +361 375 8939
www.archaeolingua.hu

New perspectives on Minoan Crete

Archaeology and European Modernity: Producing and Consuming the 'Minoans' edited by Y Hamilakis and N Momigliano

This unique collection contributes to current debates on the relationship between
archaeology and European modernity by focusing on the specific case study of
Minoan Crete, which has often been hailed as the cradle of European civilisation.
It represents the first multidisciplinary effort to understand critically the
disciplinary history and reception of the Minoan past, by bringing together the
work of archaeologists, historians, anthropologists, art historians, and literary scholars.

The contributions deal with a variety of issues concerning the 'production' and
'consumption' of the Minoan past, especially its use in the construction of
European, Mediterranean, Greek, and Cretan identities. They cover an
exceptionally wide array of topics, ranging from the historical and intellectual
environment in which the rediscovery of Minoan Crete took place to the role of
the Minoan past in Freudian psychoanalysis, and from the reception of the
Minoans in modern European artistic movements and literary works to tourism,
heritage management, and pedagogy. The volume will be of interest to
archaeologists, historians, anthropologists, and art historians interested in the

politics of the past, the archaeology and anthropology of identity, the critical
history of archaeology, colonialism, nationalism, and European modernity.

Contents

I. INTRODUCTION
1. Archaeology and European Modernity: Stories from the Borders Yannis Hamilakis and Nicoletta Momigliano
II. THE PRESENT IN THE PAST: PRODUCING THE 'MINOANS'
2. A Country in a 'State of Destitution' Labouring under an 'Unfortunate
Regime':Crete at the Turn of the 20th Century (1898 1906), Philip Carabott
3. The Minoans a Welsh invention? A view from east Crete, James Whitley
4. From Ideologies of Motherhood to 'Collecting Mother Goddesses,'
Christine Morris
5. Knossos as Memorial, Ritual, and Metaphor, Philip Duke
6. Forging the Minoan Past, Ken Lapatin
7. Crete, Greece, and the Orient in the Thought of Gordon Childe (with an
appendix on Toynbee and Spengler: the Afterlife of the Minoans in European
Intellectual History), Andrew Sherratt
8. Minoan Wannabees: The Resurrection of Minoan Influences in Scandinavian
Archaeology, Lena Sjögren
III. THE PAST IN THE PRESENT: CONSUMING THE 'MINOANS'
9. The Colonial, the National, and the Local: Legacies of the 'Minoan' Past
Yannis Hamilakis
10. Knossos: Social Uses of a Monumental Landscape, Esther Solomon
11. Minoans in Modern Greek Literature, Roderick Beaton
12. Happy Little Extroverts and Bloodthirsty Tyrants: Minoans and Mycenaeans in Literature in English after Evans and Schliemann, David Roessel
13. Cretan Psychoanalysis and Freudian Archaeology: H.D.'s Minoan Analysis with Freud in 1933, Cathy Gere
14. The Arts of Bronze Age Crete and the European Modern Style: Reflecting
and Shaping Different Identities, Fritz Blakolmer
15. Minoan Crete in 20th Century Italian Culture,Vincenzo La Rosa and Pietro
Militello
16. The 'Minoan' Experience of Schoolchildren in Crete, Anna Simandiraki
(Creta Antica 7, Aldo Ausilio, 2006); Pp: 277.
Price GB £85.00;
Orders: info@ausilioeditore.com

www.oxbowbooks.com

A new text about archaeology in Japan

Archaeology, Society and Identity in Modern Japan covers a range of broad
public archaeology, postcolonial archaeology, and general theoreticalarchaeologyrelated
issues including modernity and archaeology, archaeology and the selfidentification
of the public, postmodern difficulties and the changing mode of the consumption of archaeological past, archaeology and education.

http://www.cambridge.org/uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp

isbn=0521849535

Koji Mizoguchi, Ph.D.
Graduate School of Social and Cultural Studies,
Kyushu University,421
Ropponmatsu, Chuo Ward,
Fukuoka, JAPAN 8108560
Email: mizog@rc.kyushuu.ac.jp

A new book on maize in the Americas

Title: Histories of Maize: Multidisciplinary Approaches to the
Prehistory, Linguistics, Biogeography, Domestication, and Evolution of
Maize, edited by John E. Staller, Robert H. Tykot, and Bruce F. Benz

This volume represents an important reference source and is the most
comprehensive treatment of maize in the Americas published to date. It
is organized by geography and analytical approach into five different
parts.

The information on this book can be accessed at this link to the
Elsevier/Academic Press web site:
http://www.elsevier.com/

Hardbound, ISBN 0123683640, 704 pages

Price: 149.00 U

The book includes various state of the art applications, which provide
evidence on the role and significance of maize to prehistoric societies in the Americas, for all timeperiods.

Table of Contents:

An Introduction to the Histories of Maize, by John E. Staller

Part I: Histories of Maize: Genetic, Morphological, and

Microbotanical Evidence

1. Differing Approaches and Perceptions in the Study of New and Old
World Crops, by Terence A. Brown
2. Maize in the Americas: A Synthetic Look, by Bruce F. Benz
3. Origin of Polystichy in Maize, by Hugh H. Iltis
4. Dating the Initial Spread of Zea Mays, by T. Michael Blake
5. El Riego and Early Maize Evolution, by Bruce F. Benz, Li Cheng, Steven
W. Leavitt, and Chris Eastoe
6. Ancient DNA and the Integration of Archaeological and Genetic Approaches to the Study of Maize Domestication, by Viviane JaenickeDesprés
and Bruce D. Smith
7. Ancient Maize in the American Southwest: What Does it Look Like
and What Can it Tell Us?, by Lisa W. Huckell
8. Environmental Mosaics, Agricultural Diversity, and the
Evolutionary Adoption of Maize in the American Southwest, by William E.
Doolittle and Jonathan B. Mabry
9. Towards a Biologically Based Method of Phytolith Classification, by
Greg Laden
Part II: Isotope Analysis and Human Diet
10. Isotope Analyses and the Histories of Maize, by Robert Tykot
11. Social Directions in the Isotopic Anthropology of Maize in the
Maya Region, by Christine D. White, Fred J. Longstaffe, and Henry P.
Schwarcz
12. Diet in Prehistoric Soconusco, by Brian Chisholm and T. Michael Blake
13. Early to Terminal Classic Maya Diet in the Northern Lowlands of
the Yucatán (Mexico), by Eugenia Brown Mansell, Robert H. Tykot, David A.
Freidel, Bruce H. Dahlin, and Traci Ardren
14. The Importance of Maize in Initial Period and Early Horizon Peru, by Robert H. Tykot, Richard L. Burger, and Nikolaas van der Merwe
15. Maize on the Frontier: Isotopic and Macrobotanical Data from CentralWestern
Argentina, by Adolfo F. Gil, Robert H. Tykot, Gustavo Neme,
and Nicole Shelnut
16. Dietary Variation and Prehistoric Maize Farming in the Middle Ohio
Valley, by Diana M. Greenlee
17. A Hard Row to Hoe: Changing Maize Use in the American Bottom and
Surrounding Area, by Eleanora A. Reber
18. Evidence for the Early Use of Maize in Peninsular Florida, by
Jennifer A. Kelly, Robert H. Tykot, and Jerald T. Milanich
19. Prehistoric Maize in Southern Ontario: Contributions from Stable
Isotope Studies, by M. Anne Katzenberg
20. The Stable and RadioIsotope Chemistry of Eastern Basketmaker and Pueblo Groups in the Four Corners Region of the American Southwest: Implications for Anasazi Diets, Origins and Abandonments in Southwestern Colorado, by Joan Brenner Coltrain, Joel C. Janetski, and Shawn W. Carlyle21. The Agricultural Productivity of Chaco Canyon and the Source(s) of PreHispanic Maize found in Pueblo Bonito, by Larry Benson, John Stein, Howard Taylor, Richard Friedman, and Thomas C. Windes22. Summary of Isotope Section, by Henry Schwarcz
Part III: Histories of Maize: Mesoamerica, Central and South America:
The Spread of Maize in Central and South America
23. Caribbean Maize: First Farmers to Columbus, by Lee Newsom
24. Maize on the Move, by J. Scott Raymond, and Warren R. DeBoer
25. The Gift of the Variation and Dispersion of Maize: Social and
Technological Context in Amerindian Societies, by Renée M. Bonzani and
Augusto OyuelaCaycedo
26. The Maize Revolution: A View from El Salvador, by Robert A. Dull
27. PreColumbian
Maize Agriculture in Costa Rica: Pollen and Other
Evidence from Lake and Swamp Sediments, by Sally P. Horn
28. CaralSupe
and the NorthCentral
Area of Peru: The History of
Maize in the Land Where Civilization Came into Being, by Ruth Shady
29. Prehistoric Maize from Northern Chile, An Evaluation of the
Evidence, by Mario A. Rivera
30. The Archaeology and Ethnography of Maize Cultivation in the
Titicaca, by Sergio Chavez and Robert Thompson
31. The Movements of Maize into Middle Horizon Tiwanaku, Bolivia, by Christine A. Hastorf, William T. Whitehead, Maria C. Bruno, and
Melanie Wright
32. The Social, Symbolic and Economic Significance of Zea mays L. in
the Late Horizon Period, by John E. Staller
Part IV: The Histories of Maize: North America and Northern Mexico
33. Early Agriculture in Chihuahua, Mexico, by Robert J. Hard, A.C.
MacWilliams, John R. Roney, Karen R. Adams, and William L. Merrill
34. Protohistoric and Contact Period Salinas Pueblo Maize: Trend or
Departure? by Katharine D. Rainey and Katherine A. Spielmann
35. Early Maize Agriculture in the Northern Rio Grande Valley, New
Mexico, by Bradley J. Vierra and Richard I. Ford
36. Hominy Technology and the Emergence of Mississippian Societies, by Thomas P. Myers
37. The Migrations of Maize into the Southeastern U.S., by Robert Lusteck
38. The Science behind the Three Sisters Mound System: An Agronomic Assessment of an Indigenous Agricultural System in the Northeast, by Jane Mt. Pleasant
39. The Origin and Spread of Maize (Zea mays) in New England, by
Elizabeth S. Chilton
40. Precontact Maize from Ontario, Canada: Origins, Context,
Chronology, Variation, and Plant Associations, by Gary W. Crawford,
Della Saunders, and David G. Smith
Part V: The Histories of Maize: The Language of Maize
41. Siouan Tribal Contacts and Dispersions Evidenced in the
Terminology for Maize and Other Cultigens, by Robert L. Rankin
42. Maize in Word and Image in Southern Mesoamerica, by Brian Stross
43. Thipaak and the Origins of Maize in Northern Mesoamerica, by
Janis B. Alcorn, Barbara Edmonson, and Cándido Hernández Vidales
44. The Place of Maize in Indigenous Mesoamerican Folk Taxonomies,
by Nicholas A. Hopkins
45. Native Aymara and Quechua Botanical Terminologies of Zea Mays in
the Lake Titicaca and Cuzco Regions, by Sergio J. Chávez
46. The Historical Linguistics of Maize Cultivation in Mesoamerica and
North America, by Jane H. Hill
47. Glottochronology and the Chronology of Maize in the Americas, by Cecil H. Brown
48. A Review of the Antiquity, Biogeography and Culture History of
Maize in the Americas, by Bruce F. Benz and John E. Staller
Publication to celebrate the work of Jay Hall

An Archaeological Life: Papers in Honour of Jay Hall edited by Sean Ulm and Ian Lilley

2006, viii+276pp, 297x210mm, pb
ISBN 1864998636

In 2007 Associate Professor Jay Hall retires from the University of
Queensland after more than 30 years of service to the Australian
archaeological community. Celebrated as a gifted teacher and a
pioneer of Queensland archaeology, Jay leaves a rich legacy of
scholarship and achievement across a wide range of
archaeological endeavours. An Archaeological Life brings together past and present students, colleagues and friends to celebrate Jay's contributions, influences and interests.

Contents

Jay Hall From Scatology to
Eschatology, by Jim Allen

After Clovis: Some Thoughts on the Slow Death of a Paradigm, by David Pedler & J.M. Adovasio

MidHolocene Hunters of Kangaroo Island: The Perspective from Cape du Couedic Rockshelter, by Neale Draper

Archaeology and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies at
the University of Queensland, by Ian Lilley

An Attack of Nostalgia and
Other Ways of Seeing the Past, by Mike Rowland

Of Fairy Rings and Telegraph Poles: The Importance of Accounting
for Evidence of Absence in Archaeological Surveys, by Richard Robins & Cheryl Swanson

Sa Huynh and Cham in Vietnam: Implications of Maritime
Economies, by an Walters

Process or Planning? Depicting and Understanding the Variability in Australian Core Reduction, by Peter Hiscock

Late Moves on Donax: Aboriginal Marine Specialisation in
Southeast Queensland over the Last 6000 years, by Ian J. McNiven

Diatoms and Sponge Spicules as Indicators of Contamination on
Utilised Backed Artefacts from Turtle Rock, by Gail Robertson

Historical Archaeology at the University of Queensland, by Jonathan Prangnell

MRAP and Beyond: Bribie Island, Southeast Queensland, by A.D.
(Tam) Smith

The Antiquity of Marine Fishing in Southeast Queensland: New
Evidence for Pre2000
BP Fishing from Three Sites on the
Southern Curtis Coast, by Sean Ulm & Deborah Vale

Interpreting Surface Assemblage Variation in Wardaman Country,
Northern Territory: An Ecological Approach, by Chris Clarkson

Starch Grains, Stone Tools and Modern Hominin Behaviour, by Richard Fullagar

The Ceramic Chronology of Copan: A Plotted History and Some
Revisionist Reflections, by René Viel

Filling the Gaps: Extending the TARDIS Concept to Teaching
Cultural Heritage Management Skills, by Anne Ross

Archaeology under the Bitumen: Excavations at the Bribie Island
Road Site, Southeast Queensland, by Jill Reid

To Trash and to Cache: Analysis of a Late Formative Living
Surface at Copan, Honduras, by Daniel Cummins & Michael
Haslam

Data Grid for the Management, Reconstruction, Analysis and
Visualisation of Archaeological Data, by Nicole Bordes, Sean Ulm,
Oystein Pettersen, Karen Murphy, David Gwynne, William Pagnon,
Stuart Hungerford, Peter Hiscock, Jay Hall & Bernard Pailthorpe

Jay Hall Publications 19692006

Purchase a Copy
Copies of An Archaeological Life: Papers in Honour of Jay Hall are
available at the price of $59.95 each (including GST and postage in
Australia). For international customers copies are AUD$69.95 each
(GST exempt and including airmail postage). Order forms are
available by clicking on the link at the base of the following web
page:

http://www.atsis.uq.edu.au/index.html?page=41638&pid=41633

New European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) blog

WAC members may be interested to know about the new EAA blog with loads of
information and some discussion relevant to European archaeology. One of the
aims of the blog is to publicise and further discuss issues published in the
European Journal of Archaeology. Also included are reports on recent
conferences and reviews of exhibitions, and even a world map that shows the
locations of people who have logged onto the site!

The EAA Blog is hosted by Troels Myrup Kristensen

The web address is: http://eja.eaa.org/

Other news items

From Virginia SteenMcIntyre

IN THE BUILDING STAGE: A WEBSITE WITH HARDTOFIND DATA ON
CYNTHIA IRWINWILLIAMS' ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES, VALSEQUILLO
AREA, PUEBLA, MEXICO http://www.valsequilloclassic.net

The archaeological sites excavated by Cynthia IrwinWilliams
and Juan Armenta Camacho in the early 60s have caused controversy from the first. In them, well made stone tools were found in situ associated with butchered bones of
Pleistocene animals including mastodon, horse, and camel. Later work by geoscientists dated the sites at around 250,000 300,000 years (SteenMcIntyre, Fryxell, and Malde, 1981, Quaternary Research, 16, 117 and cited references). Recent diatom studies for sediment from the artifactbearing layers and a cavity in the Dorenberg skull support this great age (VanLandingham, 2006, J. Paleolimnol. 36, 101116 and cited references).

Because of the controversial age for the sites, little information is in print. Much of
the original material, including artefacts, trench profiles, field notes, and
thousands of photos and slides has since disappeared. To preserve what is left,
and to disseminate the information as widely as possible, this website is being
created.

See also abstract and online papers by SteenMcIntyre and VanLandingham, WAC5, Washington D.C.

Virginia SteenMcIntyre

P.O. Box 1167
Idaho Springs, CO 80452 USA
dub.ent@ix.netcom.com

6. Excerpts from other archaeological newsletters (used with permission)
6(a) SALON (editions from October and September 2006)

SALON the
Society of Antiquaries of London Online Newsletter

SALON 151: 30 October 2006

SALON Editor: Christopher Catling
christopher.catling@virgin.net

Contents

• Culture Minister unveils the UK's next three nominations for World
Heritage status
• Explorers who forge new links between communities
• Was Columbus Portuguese?
• First humans in Tibet
• Goats might have been the first domesticated farm animals
• The dark earth mystery
Culture Minister unveils the UK's next three nominations for World Heritage
status

The Antonine Wall, the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and the Wearmouth Jarrow twin
monastery are to be the UK's next three nominations as World Heritage Sites,
Culture Minister David Lammy has announced.

The Antonine Wall was added to the UK Tentative List this year and would form an extension to the Frontiers of the Roman Empire Transnational World Heritage
Site presently consisting of Hadrian's Wall and the Upper Raetian German
Limes. The Pontcysyllte Aqueduct is the highest canal aqueduct ever built and as such is considered to be one of the most heroic of the monuments that symbolise
the world's first Industrial Revolution.

The AngloSaxon monastery of Wearmouth Jarrow needs little introduction to
Fellows: created by Benedict Biscop, who returned from his travels in Continental
Europe in the 650s determined to build a monastery 'in the Roman manner', it
was home to the Venerable Bede, the first historian of the English people, who
became a member of Benedict Biscop's community at the age of seven, around
AD 680.

Our Fellow, Sir Neil Cossons, Chairman of English Heritage, said: 'The
nomination for Wearmouth Jarrow recognises the unique international
contribution the site and its greatest inhabitant, the AngloSaxon
scholar Bede, made to the development of European learning and culture. The inscription of the
Antonine Wall will complement the recent joining of the Upper German Raetian
Limes and Hadrian's Wall to form the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World
Heritage Site and will strengthen international cooperation on conservation.'

At 125ft high, Thomas Telford and William Jessop's Pontcysyllte aqueduct takes the Llangollen canal across the River Dee valley. It is formed from a 1,000ftlong
iron trough laid on stone arches. The first stone of the aqueduct, which
connected the Rivers Severn, Mersey and Dee at the height of the Industrial
Revolution, was laid in 1795. It took a decade to complete. Alun Pugh, Minister for Culture, Welsh Language and Sport in Wales, said: 'We have a wonderful built historic environment in Wales and the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct is a jewel in the crown.'

Explorers who forge new links between communities

As a schoolboy learning about the voyages of Magellan and Columbus, Salon's editor could never quite reconcile the notion of the 'discovery' of Africa, Australia
or the Americas with the blindingly obvious fact that there were people already living there nor how northern European explorers could claim to have 'navigated
for the first time' routes that local traders and sailors had been using since time
immemorial.

Now in a book, called Pathfinders: a global history of exploration (published by OUP), our Fellow Felipe FernándezArmesto has squared that circle by making a useful distinction between 'exploration' and mere 'movement'. True explorers, in FernándezArmesto's definition, are strangers from afar who create new links between communities that have not been in contact before. These 'pathfinders' lay down 'gangways of cultural convergence' though the author admits that where Europeans were involved, and especially during the socalled
'golden age of exploration', this intercultural contact has too often 'begun with embraces,
continued in abuse and ended in bloodshed'.

Through meticulous research married to a gift for storytelling, FernándezArmesto
chronicles some 4,000 years of global exploration, which he dates back to the ancient Egyptians who sent an expedition to central Africa in the late third millennium BC. As he charts the process by which the globe has been mapped (not systematically but by means of a meandering and haphazard process) he ends by asking: is exploration now obsolete?

In the sense in which he has defined it, the answer has to be 'yes' globalisation,
powered by consumerism and digital media, have penetrated so widely that you
now have to work very hard to escape from those 'gangways of cultural
convergence' laid down by developed western economies. But if exploration
means following your curiosity into the unknown, then there are vast realms still
to be discovered, as every antiquary surely knows: was it Gilbert White who said
he learned more from studying a square foot of soil in his back garden than
others learned by travelling the world?

Was Columbus Portuguese?

Another puzzle to torment schoolboy historians is the question of why Christopher Columbus spoke fluent Portuguese, but not Italian, though claiming
to be Genoese, how he came to marry the aristocratic daughter of the
Portuguese Governor of Porto Santo island, in the Madeiran archipelago, and

why on his return from his first voyage across the Atlantic he spent a week in
Lisbon in audience with 'his' king, before reporting back to the Spanish
monarchs, Ferdinand and Isabella, who had sponsored his voyage.

Two scholars who have pursued these questions Ñü the Portuguese historianMascarenas Barreto and the US historian Manuel Luciano da Silva Ñü have now
concluded that Columbus was in fact the illegitimate son of Isabel Goncalves Zarco, daughter of João Goncalves Zarco, the Portuguese navigator credited
with the discovery of Madeira. Columbus' father was the Duque de Beja, and
Isabel gave birth at the Duke's palace in Cuba, the town 12km north of Beja, after which Columbus later named the island of Cuba. Why did Columbus not reveal
his true identity? Because his father, the Duke of Beja, and the king of Portugal,
João II, were rival claimants to the Portuguese throne and sworn enemies.

The people of Cuba (Portugal) certainly believe this theory and have just
unveiled a 7ft bronze statue of the explorer in their main square to
commemorate the 514th anniversary of Columbus's landfall on the Caribbean
island of Cuba. And Dom Duarte de Braganza, direct descendant of Columbus's supposed father has agreed to donate a blood sample to the Spanish and Portuguese governments in the hope his DNA can be matched with that of Columbus or his descendants.

First humans in Tibet

The explorers whose lives and deeds are chronicled by Felipe FernándezArmesto
might get the posthumous biographies, but Salon's editor is just as interested in the anonymous humans whose slow journeys in pursuit of basic necessities of life led to the peopling of the globe. While it is easy to understand the motivation of lotus eaters following plentiful food and warmth around the shores of Africa and Asia, one wonders what drove people to explore harsher regions of the globe, such as Tibet. Again published in the Journal of
Archaeological Science, recent research suggests that humans penetrated the
region between 13,000 and 15,000 years ago, and may have been there ten
millennia before that, despite the fact that the QinghaiTibetan plateau is the largest continuous highelevation ecosystem on the planet, characterised by extremes of climate.

Archaeologists surveying the shores of the Qinghai lake, in the northeastern
corner of the plateau at an elevation of 3,200m (10,500ft), have found hearths,
consisting of charcoal dating from 13,000 and 12,800 years ago along with burnt
cobbles used for boiling and degreasing, and debris from toolmaking and the
bones of a gazellesized animals. David Madsen notes in his report in the Journal
that camps such as this are critical to understanding the capacities of early humans for the movement into other extreme environments such as Siberia and
Beringia — the Ice Age land bridge that led into the Americas.

Rapid sea level rise might alter views of human migration

Another perspective on the peopling of America comes in the form of a paper presenting new evidence that the Bering Strait near Alaska flooded into the Arctic Ocean about 11,000 years ago, about 1,000 years earlier than previously believed, closing off the land bridge thought to be the major route for human migration from Asia to the Americas.

In a paper in the October issue of Geology magazine, researchers from the
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) report results from three new
core sites north and west of Alaska in the Chukchi Sea, where the continental
shelf was exposed when the sea level fell during the last glacial maximum, about
20,000 years ago. Their analysis shows a consistent pattern of rising sea levels that flooded the Bering Strait about 12,000 years ago. The implication is that people arrived in the Americas sooner than many US archaeologists believe, or that the current migration dates are accurate,but that people arrived by boat rather than by land.

Goats might have been the first domesticated farm animals

Goats, rather than cows, sheep or pigs, might have been the first animals to be
domesticated by Neolithic farmers, according to a report in the Proceedings of
the National Academy of Sciences based on DNA analysis of goat bones from a
cave in Baume d'Oullen in southwestern France. The authors of the report say they have tracked two goat lineages stemming from the Near East around 7,500 years ago.

Goats would have been ideally suited companions for early farmers, being hardy animals that can survive on minimal food, cope with extremes of temperature, and travel long distances. Goats would have provided clothing, meat, and milk as well as bone, sinew nd dung for consumption and trade. The researchers also found that once domesticated, the farming of goats spread very quickly from one end of the Mediterranean to the other, rather than taking many goat generations.

Commenting on the results, archaeologist Marek Zvelebil, from the University of
Sheffield, said that caution was needed in interpreting the results of research
based on a small sample of bones from a single site but added that: 'this site is strategically located along one of the major routes for the dispersal of farming
into Europe', and that the study backed other archaeological evidence that
indicates that once Neolithic culture reached modernday Italy, it spread rapidly through the western Mediterranean region.

The dark earth mystery

To many archaeologists, dark earth (the 2to 3footdeep layer of soil that is found in many urban contexts in postRoman stratigraphy) is as mysterious as the intricacies of DNA. In an attempt to foster discussion and debate about its origins and significance, Pete Clark has compiled a bibliography on the subject which he posted on the Britarch bulletin board on 13 October 2006. The jury is still out on whether it results from the decay of weeds and organic rubbish,
representing evidence of urban decline from the second to the ninth centuries or whether it consists of structural timbers and earth floors reworked by worm action.

SALON 150: 16 October 2006

Contents

· John Coles awarded EAA Heritage Prize
· The birth of Natural England
· Landscape quality guidance
· The Conservation of Australia's Historic Heritage Places
· Campaign to save the ancient diolkos of Corinth
· International outrage at proposedsale of BadenWürttemberg
manuscripts
· Agreement to control sale of antiquities on eBay
· Noah's Ark International Workshop
John Coles awarded EAA Heritage Prize

Our Fellow Anthony Harding, President of the European Association of