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Books by Joanna Tonge
Archaeopress Archaeology, 2020
This volume is the result of the Cambridge Annual Student Archaeology Conference (CASA), held at ... more This volume is the result of the Cambridge Annual Student Archaeology Conference (CASA), held at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research from September 13–15, 2019. 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 undergraduate to PhD candidates) in archaeology and related fields the chance to present their research to a broad audience.
The theme for the 2019 conference was New Frontiers in Archaeology and this volume presents papers from a wide range of topics such as new geographical areas of research, using museum collections and legacy data, new ways to teach archaeology and new scientific or theoretic paradigms. From hunting and gathering in the Neolithic to the return of artefacts to Turkey, the papers contained within show a great variety in both geography and chronology. Discussions revolve around access to data, the role of excavation in today’s archaeology, the role of local communities in archaeological interpretation and how we can ask new questions of old data. This volume presents 18 papers arranged in the six sessions with the two posters in their thematic sessions.
Papers by Joanna Tonge
This volume is the result of the Cambridge Annual Student Archaeology Conference (CASA), held at ... more This volume is the result of the Cambridge Annual Student Archaeology Conference (CASA), held at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research from September 13–15, 2019. 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 undergraduate to PhD candidates) in archaeology and related fields the chance to present their research to a broad audience. The theme for the 2019 conference was New Frontiers in Archaeology and this volume presents papers from a wide range of topics such as new geographical areas of research, using museum collections and legacy data, new ways to teach archaeology and new scientific or theoretic paradigms. From hunting and gathering in the Neolithic to the return of artefacts to Turkey, the papers contained within show a great variety in both geography and chronology. Discussions revolve around access to data, the role of excavation in today’s archaeology, the role of local communities in archaeological interpretation and how we can ask new questions of old data. This volume presents 18 papers arranged in the six sessions with the two posters in their thematic sessions.
Proceedings of the Cambridge Annual Student Archaeology Conference, 2020
Historical archaeology of Indigenous societies can aid in challenging the often-flawed ethnograph... more Historical archaeology of Indigenous societies can aid in challenging the often-flawed ethnographic models that emphasise static identities rather than the dynamic nature of these societies (Flexner 2014). Objects are important to a multivocal past, in the Pacific particularly as the history of the last two hundred years is mainly to be found in written sources by outsiders (Kirch 1985; Spriggs 1997). Considering its historical context and utilising the archaeological method of object biography to unfold the ‘drama’ (Joy 2009) of this wooden imitation hand-mirror allows for a greater depth of nuance to the history and anthropology of the 19th and 20th century Trobriand Islands. Untangling the processes which constitute its biography, with a focus on the initial importance in its creation, its ‘peak’ life as an ‘inscribed’ object (Marshall 2008), allows a narrative of social action to unfold. This mimetic hand- mirror is considered in the context of practises traditionally labelled ‘cargo cults’ within anthropology, that often marginalise objects like these. Though it does not have a reflective surface, it nonetheless forces reflection and recalls the power of the object to which it alludes in the need to self-scrutinise. The irony of the looking glass that is so often held up to our own culture in the study, and the critique of the study (Jebens 2004) of cargo cults and colonial contexts is encapsulated in this object.
Archaeopress Archaeology, 2020
This volume is the result of the Cambridge Annual Student Archaeology Conference (CASA), held at ... more This volume is the result of the Cambridge Annual Student Archaeology Conference (CASA), held at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research from September 13–15, 2019. 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 undergraduate to PhD candidates) in archaeology and related fields the chance to present their research to a broad audience.
The theme for the 2019 conference was New Frontiers in Archaeology and this volume presents papers from a wide range of topics such as new geographical areas of research, using museum collections and legacy data, new ways to teach archaeology and new scientific or theoretic paradigms. From hunting and gathering in the Neolithic to the return of artefacts to Turkey, the papers contained within show a great variety in both geography and chronology. Discussions revolve around access to data, the role of excavation in today’s archaeology, the role of local communities in archaeological interpretation and how we can ask new questions of old data. This volume presents 18 papers arranged in the six sessions with the two posters in their thematic sessions.
This volume is the result of the Cambridge Annual Student Archaeology Conference (CASA), held at ... more This volume is the result of the Cambridge Annual Student Archaeology Conference (CASA), held at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research from September 13–15, 2019. 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 undergraduate to PhD candidates) in archaeology and related fields the chance to present their research to a broad audience. The theme for the 2019 conference was New Frontiers in Archaeology and this volume presents papers from a wide range of topics such as new geographical areas of research, using museum collections and legacy data, new ways to teach archaeology and new scientific or theoretic paradigms. From hunting and gathering in the Neolithic to the return of artefacts to Turkey, the papers contained within show a great variety in both geography and chronology. Discussions revolve around access to data, the role of excavation in today’s archaeology, the role of local communities in archaeological interpretation and how we can ask new questions of old data. This volume presents 18 papers arranged in the six sessions with the two posters in their thematic sessions.
Proceedings of the Cambridge Annual Student Archaeology Conference, 2020
Historical archaeology of Indigenous societies can aid in challenging the often-flawed ethnograph... more Historical archaeology of Indigenous societies can aid in challenging the often-flawed ethnographic models that emphasise static identities rather than the dynamic nature of these societies (Flexner 2014). Objects are important to a multivocal past, in the Pacific particularly as the history of the last two hundred years is mainly to be found in written sources by outsiders (Kirch 1985; Spriggs 1997). Considering its historical context and utilising the archaeological method of object biography to unfold the ‘drama’ (Joy 2009) of this wooden imitation hand-mirror allows for a greater depth of nuance to the history and anthropology of the 19th and 20th century Trobriand Islands. Untangling the processes which constitute its biography, with a focus on the initial importance in its creation, its ‘peak’ life as an ‘inscribed’ object (Marshall 2008), allows a narrative of social action to unfold. This mimetic hand- mirror is considered in the context of practises traditionally labelled ‘cargo cults’ within anthropology, that often marginalise objects like these. Though it does not have a reflective surface, it nonetheless forces reflection and recalls the power of the object to which it alludes in the need to self-scrutinise. The irony of the looking glass that is so often held up to our own culture in the study, and the critique of the study (Jebens 2004) of cargo cults and colonial contexts is encapsulated in this object.