A FUTURE FOR ARCHAEOLOGY
Peter Ucko in his office.
A FUTURE FOR ARCHAEOLOGY
The Past in the Present
Edited by
Robert Layton, Stephen Shennan and Peter Stone
First published 2006 by Left Coast Press, Inc.
Hardback first published in 2006 by UCL Press under the ISBN 978-1-84472-126-9.
Paperback first published in 2007.
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A future for archaeology
1. Archaeology Social Aspects. 2. Archaeology
1. Uckso, Peter J. II. Layton, Robert, 1944. III. Shennan, Stephen. IV. Stone, Peter G., 1957.
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This book is dedicated to Peter Ucko and the humanistic archaeology he has pioneered, in acknowledgment of his vision, his achievements and the inspiration he has provided.
Peter Ucko passed away at age 68 on June 14, 2007. He is deeply missed by family, friends and colleagues.
CONTENTS
Robert Layton, Stephen Shennan and Peter Stone
Jack Golson
Colin Tatz and Jacquie Lambert
Nicolas Peterson
Michael Day
Neal Ascherson
Peter Stone
Henry Cleere
Tim Schadla-Hall
Cressida Fforde and Jane Hubert
Beverley Butler and Michael Rowlands
Sidn Jones
Kevin C. MacDonald, David W. Morgan, Fiona J.L. Handley, Aubra L. Lee and Emma Morley
George H. Okello Abungu
Arkadiusz Marciniak
Gustavo G. Politis
David Wengrow
Peter F. Biehl
Fekri A. Hassan
David Harris
Dr George Okello Abungu is the Proprietor and Chief Executive of Okello Abungu Heritage Consultants, working as an independent consultant and advisor for various organisations and heritage training programmes in Africa, Europe and the USA. From 1999 to 2002 he was the Director General of the National Museums of Kenya and Director for Regional Museums, Sites & Monuments from 1996 to 1999. Earlier, he was Head of the Department of Coastal Archaeology/Head of Coastal Museums Programme based in Mombasa. He was the founding Chairman of Africa 2009 and the Programme for Museum Development in Africa, and is currently the Chairman of the International Standing Committee on the Traffic in Illicit Antiquities. He is on the Executive Council of the International Council of Museums (ICOM), and has recently been elected the Kenyan government delegate for the UNESCO World Heritage Committee.
Neal Ascherson is a journalist and writer. He was formerly a foreign correspondent of the Observer and Associate Editor of The Independent. Recent books include Black Sea (Cape 1995) and Stone Voices (Granta 2002). He is Editor of the journal Public Archaeology and an Honorary Lecturer at the Institute of Archaeology, UCL.
Peter F. Biehl is currently a Lecturer in Archaeological Theory and the Prehistory of Europe in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge. His interests include archaeological theory, cognitive archaeology and the social meaning of visual imagery and representation, and the use of multimedia in archaeology. His focus is primarily on the European Neolithic. He currently directs the excavation of the Neolithic circular enclosure in Goseck, Germany (http://www.praehist.uni-halle.de/goseck/indexl.htm) and has published widely on the meaning and functions of Neolithic and Copper Age figurines.
Beverley Butler is Lecturer in Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies at the Institute of Archaeology, UCL. She is co-author (with K. Littlewood) of Of Ships and Stars: A History of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich (Athlone Press 1999). She has a specialist focus upon North Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean and upon Alexandrian/Egyptian and Palestinian cultural heritage and cultural politics. Her interests include the theorisation and conceptualisation of cultural heritage studies, as well as museum historiography and museological theory.
Henry Cleere was Director of the Council for British Archaeology from 1974 to 1991. Between 1992 and 2002 he worked in Paris as World Heritage Coordinator for ICOMOS (International Council on Monuments and Sites), the advisor on cultural heritage to the UNESCO World Heritage Committee. Since 1998. he has been an Honorary Professor at the Institute of Archaeology, UCL.
Michael Day is an Emeritus Professor of London University who occupied the Chair of Anatomy at St Thomass Hospital School for 17 years. He is best known for his work on fossil man from East Africa including hominids from Olduvai Gorge and Laetoli in Tanzania, as well as East Rudolf in Kenya that were recovered by Louis, Mary and Richard Leakey. His contributions are documented in many scientific papers and books including his text Guide to Fossil Man.
He was asked by Peter Ucko to Chair the Board of Directors of the company that had been formed to run the World Archaeological Congress (WAC) when the British National Committee of the IUSPP collapsed in disarray due to a dispute over the attendance of South African delegates. He later chaired the Steering Committee that established the WAC as a world-wide international organisation in the field of archaeology.
Cressida Fforde works as a Museum and Heritage Consultant, specialising in repatriation issues. She is co-editor of The Dead and Their Possessions: Repatriation in Principle, Policy and Practice
