TAG2024

Framing the session title in an interrogative way, at one level is a nod towards remembering Alfred Russell Wallace, who conceived the theory of evolution through natural selection independently of Charles Darwin, who lived in Bournemouth and was buried in Broadstone cemetery in 1913. At another level the theme prompts the question of whether evolutionary models are still relevant for understanding culture-change through archaeology. And at yet another level the theme raises the matter of changing archaeological practice and where current trends in fieldwork might be taking us: is archaeology as a discipline ‘evolving’?. But the theme should not be seen as a constraint on contributions; it is a starting point! Presentations on any aspect of theoretically grounded archaeology are welcome.



2:00pm | The spirals in Atlantic neolithic rock art all spin clockwise: a theoretical foundation for an ideographic/pictographic approach to a decipherment of the iconography of Newgrange, County Meath, Ireland.   | William Murphy
2:15pm | Curation and (re-)creation: not so hidden monuments; a solar legacy | Robert Sutton
2:30pm | Indigenous Involvement for Rock Art Protection in the Vindhyan Range: How Indigenous Archaeology can preserve Prehistoric Rock Art Sites in Central India. | Shriya Gautam
2:45pm | Emancipatory Archaeology: A Proposal. | Guo Peng Chen 陈国鹏
3:00pm | Discussion |