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Newsletter: Volume 27 April 2009

Contributions to the next WAC Newsletter due 18th May 2009

Archaeologists Without Borders Workshop

Report on the website of the World Archaeological Congress

Archaeologies of Art Podcast Series Launched!

Call for WAC members to nominate Indigenous people

World Archaeological Congress honors Larry Zimmerman

Dr Andree Rosenfeld

Recommendation on ERA Draft Quality Ranking

WAC-6 Media Releases

WAC-6 Closing Ceremony Speech

Portuguese WAC-6 Media Releases

German WAC-6 Media Releases

Spanish WAC-6 Media Releases

Turkish WAC-6 Media Releases

Czech. WAC-6 Media Release on Iran

 

 


Remembering Peter Ucko

Peter at his desk at the Institute, during his time as Director, May 2003, for an exhibition by Museum Studies students. Copyright: Stuart Laidlaw (Institute Photographer).

Peter Ucko examining a brew, as part of a range of field experiments in early technology, Easter, 1968. Photo: Peter Drewett

Peter examining rock art


Peter in Sri Lanka

Peter in a boat on a rock art expedition


Peter Ucko, Paul Sinclair, Gustav Trotzig, Mohamed Isahakia (then Director, National Museums of Kenya), Richard Leakey, George Abungu, Lorna Abungu, Gilbert Pwiti

 

WAC Executive meeting at the WAC InterCongress in Mombasa, Kenya, 1993.
From left: Peter Stone (Secretariat), Peter Ucko (acting Secretary), Jack Golson (President) and Sue Bulmer (Treasurer)

 

On the beach at Jumba la Mtwana. Peter Ucko and Lorna Abungu talking/eating

 

Peter Ucko and Geo Chongwen, at the 'From concepts of the past to practical strategies: the teaching of archaeological field techniques' conference, Peking University, April 2006

 

Peter Ucko and Geo Chongwen, at the 'From concepts of the past to practical strategies: the teaching of archaeological field techniques' conference, Peking University, April 2006

 

Peter Ucko and Arek Marciniak, Munich airport April 2006

 

Peter Ucko, Munich airport April 2006

 





With Bassey Andah WAC 1993 Mombasa

With Jack Golson, WAC Venezuela


Interviewing students, China 2006

WAC, South Dakota, 1980


Australia early 1970s.

Peter with Mike Rowlands in August 1973, taken in Santander (Northern Spain) during a day off from the Hornos de la Pena rock art project.