Diversity in Archaeology-Proceedings of the Cambridge Annual Student Archaeology Conference 2020/2021
Abstract
Diversity in Archaeology is the result of the fourth Cambridge Annual Student Archaeology Conference (CASA 4), held virtually from January 14–17, 2021. CASA developed out of the Annual Student Archaeology Conference, first held in 2013, which was formed by students at Cambridge, Oxford, Durham and York. In 2017, Cambridge became the home of the conference and the name was changed accordingly. The conference was developed to give students (from undergraduates to PhD candidates) in archaeology and related fields the chance to present their research to a broad audience.
The theme for the 2020/2021 conference was Diversity in Archaeology which opened our conference to multiple interpretations, varied presentations and sundry perspectives from different regions of the world. This volume consists of 30 papers which were presented in 7 different sessions. The papers present a great variety in both geography and chronology and explore a wide range of topics such women’s voices in archaeological discourse; researching race and ethnicity across time; use of diversified science methods in Archaeology; critical ethnographic studies; diversity in the Archaeology of Death; heritage studies; archaeology of ‘scapes’ and more.
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The purpose is to examine 17 bog bodies in the north-west of Europe, from the perspective of
encounters
. All bog bodies are considered as deviants from the social consensus. Focus will beon clothing, hair styles, attributes, corporality and violence
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in order the find any geographicindications of
encounters
, the relation between the violated bodies and new practises, and whatnew interpretations can be made from the results. The main findings are:
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A strong relation between practises to choose and sacrifice individuals of certaincharacteristics, and the bog as transformer and reviver.
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Both body as well as bog function as actant, narrating the story of body, bog andpractice.
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Traces of cultural hybridity type 2 as old practices still remain but are partly beingtransformed into new variants.Further research will discuss the bog symbolising both present and future, the spectators andthose who selected the bodies.
Key words:
bog body, pre-roman iron age, encounters,
micro-archaeology, necropolitics,seriality, différance, corporality, actant model, cultural hybridity
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