TAG2024

As we consider how to make archaeological practice more inclusive, equitable, and societally relevant, it becomes increasingly necessary for our sector become self-aware and transparent about how, why and who in archaeology sets research agendas, gathers data, analyses and interprets it – in other words, how archaeological knowledge is constructed. This process is one that many archaeologists are intimately familiar with, yet in-depth discussion of its implications remains rare.

This session invites exploration of all aspects of knowledge production in archaeology. Contributions could include, for example:

Addressing the gap between lived experience of research and the official narrative of the field report
Focusing on the voices and perspectives that tend to be excluded from this process altogether
Examining the implications of intercultural collaboration in the context of international projects, from systemic and localized power imbalances to the epistemic diversity of archaeological knowledge production within a single team
Reflecting on how we can better address contemporary societal challenges, enhance the impact of our field.
Methods in archaeology are constantly “evolving”, but what of the knowledge construction processes underpinning it all?

9:00am | Introduction | Lisa Randisi & Cecilia Conte

9:00am | Unearthing Power: Qufti Labor, Colonialism, and the Making of Archaeological Knowledge at Abydos | Amany Abd El Hameed & Robert J. Vigar

9:20am | Dividing Stories: Knowledge Production at the site of Buhen, Sudan in the Post-independent Era  | Yu Zhuang

9:35am | “Base Camp”: practice and materiality of international field schools in rural Mongolia | Lisa Randisi

10:05am | Who are you calling pseudo-scientific? The magic-magnetic properties of the Karakol kurgans (Altai Republic, Russian Federation)  | Cecilia Conte

10:20am | Exploring TikTok as a Tool for Participatory Public Engagement and Intercultural Collaboration in Archaeology  | Julia Josefowicz

10:35am | Are You Not Entertained? Exploring the Production and Interpretation of Archaeological Knowledge Outside of Academia  | Isabel Scarlet King

10:50am | Discussion |

11:20am | A Climate Archive and Modes of Representation  | Suha Hassan

11:35am | Solar Farms and Archaeology: 20th century thinking applied to a 21st century opportunity  | Robert Sutton

11:50am | Cultural heritage-security nexus: Understanding the evolution of cultural heritage as a security issue | Sabine Ameer & Andreas Giorgallis

12:05pm | Discussion and roundtable |

Full paper abstracts available here:
https://tag2024.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/tag-2024-session-abstracts-1.pdf