McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research annual report 2018-19

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Events and OutreachScience in Archaeology Day at TrinityHallThis year, the third annual Science in ArchaeologyDay was hosted by Trinity Hall on 19 March 2019.Twenty students, mainly from widening participationbackgrounds, attended the event which includedpresentations by Department students and staffon a variety of topics including isotopic analysis,archaeometallurgy, health, genetics, geoarchaeology,archaeobotany, ancient parasites, archaeological textilesand genetics. The prospective students were treatedto lunch and a tour of the college and a session onadmissions. This event is held annually to raise awarenessof the uses of science within the discipline of archaeology.London Anthropology DayLondon Anthropology Day is a regular fixture of ouroutreach calendar and has been for many years. The dayis organized by the Royal Anthropological Institute and isheld at the British Museum’s Education Clore Centre. It is afree university-taster day for students, careers advisers andteachers. This year’s ‘LAD’ was on 29 June and Dr EmmaPomeroy hosted a stall and ran a workshop on humanosteology to the crowd of 200+ participants who came todiscover more about anthropology at university.LAD 2020 will be held at the British Museum on 19 June2020.Egyptology and Assyriology Study Dayat Emmanuel CollegeEmmanuel College hosted the inaugural ‘Egyptologyand Assyriology Study Day’ at Cambridge this year on 17January.Twenty students attended the event which includedpresentations by Department students and staff onAssyriology and Egyptology themes, including ancientlanguages. The prospective students also had a practicalsession in the MAA and were treated to lunch, a tour ofthe college and had a session on admissions from thecollege admissions tutor.The week consisted of presentations and practicalsessions on medieval archaeology, behavioural ecology,diet and disease in the past, artefact handling, ancientEgyptian language, zooarchaeology and computationalarchaeology. The students also produced their ownindependent research project based on an artefact fromthe MAA’s collection.After the summer school participants said, ‘Followingthe summer school, I feel confident that Bio Anthis something I want to study in the future and I feelinformed about the incredible range of specializationand study across the field. The lecturers and practicalleaders were amazing, I really appreciated theopportunity to discuss what I was interested in withactual PhD students and learn about their current workas well as their journey to Cambridge.’The next Archaeology and Biological AnthropologySutton Trust Summer School is set for 17–21 August,2020.Biological Anthropology Study DayThis year, the Department hosted a subject-specificBiological Anthropology Study Day for prospectiveundergraduates on 2 May.Over 30 students attended the event which includedmultiple lectures and practical sessions on humanadaptation and evolution. Participants also had a tourof the Duckworth collection and a session on making acompetitive application to Cambridge.The 2020 Biological Anthropology Study Day is set for 30April.Sutton Trust Archaeology and BiologicalAnthropology Summer SchoolThe Cambridge Sutton Trust Summer Schools are highlycompetitive, week-long, subject-specific residences,where students live and study as a Cambridge student.The summer schools are open to students studying inYear 12 (or equivalent) at a UK state school and in 2019the Department of Archaeology welcomed 10 studentsto the Archaeology and Biological Anthropology strand.Discussing human evolution at the Study Day.L. Bonner44 Archaeology at Cambridge 2018–2019
PublicationsCambridge Archaeological JournalJohn Robb (Editor)Volume 29 has been another bumper year for theCambridge Archaeological Journal. CAJ published arecord 33 full-length articles, spanning the entirerange of human history from the earliest stonetools in African to post-medieval Sweden, andfrom the northwest coast of Canada to the BronzeAge Levant. Some work highlighted traditionalthemes such as cosmology, gender and trade;an increasing number of articles highlightedemerging themes such as ontology andrelationality. It has probably also been the mostdiverse year ever for our authorship. Genderwise,our lead authors include 16 females and 17 males.Geographically, our lead authors come from theUSA (9), UK (6), Australia (2), Sweden (2), Italy (2),Germany (2), Denmark (2), Finland, Israel, thePhillipines, Cameroon, Austria, Canada, Spain,Taiwan and Ireland. This remarkable diversityattests CAJ’s strength as an outlet for the best ininternational research.We must mark the departure of two colleaguesfrom our editorial team. Tom Leppard, ReviewsEditor, has left to take up a tenure-trackprofessorship at Florida State University. AugustaMcMahon, Associate Editor, has left to take upeditorship of Iraq. We are grateful to both for theirimmense contributions on CAJ and wish them thebest in these new adventures.Vol. 28, No. 4, November 2018• Copper-alloy Belts at Hasanlu, Iran: A Case Study in Hybridization and Heteroglossia in MaterialCulture by Megan Cifarelli, Manuel Castelluccia & Roberto Dan• Material Geographies of House Societies: Reconsidering Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Turkey by Ian Kuijt• The Origins of Iconic Depictions: A Falsifiable Model Derived from the Visual Science ofPalaeolithic Cave Art and World Rock Art by Derek Hodgson & Paul Pettitt• Alternative Pasts and Colonial Engagements in the North: The Materiality and Meanings of thePajala ‘Runestone’ (Vinsavaara Stone), Northern Sweden by Vesa-Pekka Herva, Janne Ikäheimo,Matti Enbuske & Jari Okkonen• Ambiguity, Ambivalence, Multiplicity: A Case Study of Late Pottery Neolithic CeramicAssemblages from the Southern Levant by Assaf Nativ• Comparing Near Eastern Neolithic Megasites and Southwestern Pueblos: Population Size,Exceptionalism and Historical Trajectories by Wesley Bernardini & Gregson Schachner• The Social Role of Non-metal ‘Valuables’ in Late Bronze Age Britain by Joanna Brück & Alex Davies• Transformations in Representations of Gender During the Emergence of the Teotihuacan State:A Regional Case Study of Ceramic Figurines from the Basin of Mexicos by Kiri HagermanVol. 29, No. 1, February 2019• The Philippines from c. 14,000 to 4,000 cal. bp in Regional Context, plus Corrigendumby Alfred Pawlik & Philip Piper• Coins and Cosmologies in Iron Age Western Britain by Caroline Pudney• Beyond Ethnic Boundaries: Architectural Practices and Social Identity in the MandaraHighlands, Cameroon by Melchisedek Chétima• Were Acheulean Bifaces Deliberately Made Symmetrical? Archaeological and ExperimentalEvidence by Ceri Shipton, Chris Clarkson & Rommy Cobden• Architectural Assemblages: The Northwest Complex at Zincirli by David Kertaii• The Earliest Balance Weights in the West: Towards an Independent Metrology for Bronze AgeEurope by Nicola Ialongo• Protection and Purity: Symbolic Functions of the Iron Age Saunas of the Iberian Northwestby Nadya H. Prociuk• Archaeological Demography as a Tool for the Study of Women and Gender in the Pastby Jennifer C. French• An Inka Offering at Yayno (North Highlands, Peru): Objects, Subjects and Gifts in the AncientAndes by George F. LauVol. 29, No. 2, May 2019• Negotiating Imperialism and Resistance in Late Bronze Age Ugarit: The Rise of AlphabeticCuneiform by Philip J. Boyes• Cognition: From Capuchin Rock Pounding to Lomekwian Flake Production by Marlize Lombard,Anders Högberg & Miriam N. Haidle• Reconsidering ‘Tokens’: The Neolithic Origins of Accounting or Multifunctional, Utilitarian Tools?by Lucy E. Bennison-Chapman• Revisiting the Dead: Tomb Reuse and Post-Burial Practices at Ascoli Satriano (Pre-RomanApulia, Seventh–Fourth Century bc) by Matthias Hoernes, Christian Heitz & Manuele Laimer• Multiple Burials in Ancient Societies: Theory and Methods from Egyptian Archaeologyby Gianluca Miniaci• Non-Human Whalers in Nuu-chah-nulth Art and Ritual: Reappraising Orca in ArchaeologicalContext by Alan D. McMillan• Domesticating Light and Shadows in the Neolithic: The Dombate Passage Grave (A Coruña,Spain) by A. César González-García, Benito Vilas-Estévez, Elías López-Romero & Patricia Mañana-Borrazás• The réseau opératoire of Urbanization: Craft Collaborations and Organization in an EarlyMedieval Workshop in Ribe, Denmark by Sarah Croix, Michael Neiss & Søren M. SindbækVol. 29, No. 3, August 2019• Hallucinogens and Altered States of Consciousness in Cusco, Peru: A Path to Local Powerduring Wari State Expansion by Véronique Bélisle• The Cultural Construction of Space and Migration in Paiwan, Taiwan by Maa-ling Chen• Creating the Cosmos, Reifying Power: A Zooarchaeological Investigation of Corporal AnimalForms in the Copan Valley by Nawa Sugiyama, William Fash & Christine France• Social Implications of Unburied Corpses from Intergroup Conflicts: Postmortem AgencyFollowing the Sandby borg Massacre by Clara Alfsdotter• Feasting on Wild Boar in the Early Neolithic. Evidence from an 11,400-year-old Placed Depositat Tappeh Asiab, Central Zagros by Pernille Bangsgaard, Lisa Yeomans, Hojjat Darabi, Kristian MurphyGregersen, Jesper Olsen, Tobias Richter & Peder Mortensen• Interactions of Care and Control: Human–animal Relationships in Hunter-gathererCommunities in Near-contemporary Eastern Siberia and the Mesolithic of Northwest Europeby Maja Pasarić& Graeme Warren• From Top Down Under: New Insights into the Social Significance of Superimpositions in theRock Art of Northern Kimberley, Australia by Ana Paula Motta• Levels of Narrativity in Scandinavian Bronze Age Petroglyphs by Michael Ranta, Peter Skoglund,Anna Cabak Rédei & Tomas Persson• ‘Doing’ Llama Face Stew: A Late Moche Culinary Assemblage as a Domestic DedicatoryDeposit by Guy S. DukeArchaeology at Cambridge 2018–2019 45
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