While thinking about how Public Archaeology would be in ten years from now in Peru, I just realized that it has been almost ten years since we held the first International Symposium of Public Archaeology in 2011 in Lima city. At that time, the concept of Public Archaeology was mostly unknown by local researchers, but there was an increasing interest, especially among young scholars. This interest contrasted with the few spaces to discuss the situation of archaeological remains in the present, their use and their relation to modern population. All these topics were considered outside of the idea of “academic archaeology”, regarding them as just practical issues relate not worthy of deep analysis, and usually related to outreach activities like education or heritage management. Therefore, this Symposium became an important milestone to open a new world of possibilities for the archaeological field in Peru, especially after the creation of the Ministry of Culture in 2010.
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It has been more than a decade since I completed my own participation in a public archaeology project at Rogem Gannim, in West Jerusalem (Natasha Dudinski, “The Past on our Doorstep,” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef3fPcrB11c); since then, in the role of an archaeological activist and advocate, I have observed the progress of public archaeology in Israel and abroad and participated in the local and global dialogue (Clark and Horning 2019), without initiating new fieldwork. This brief note, though looking toward the future as requested by the editors, is therefore retrospective in origin, rather than being a missive from the front lines.
十多年前,我完成了自己在西耶路撒冷Rogem Gannim的公共考古项目(Natasha Dudinski,“我们家门口的过去”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef3fPcrB11c);从那时起,作为一名考古活动家和倡导者,我观察了以色列和国外公共考古学的进展,并参与了地方和全球对话(Clark and Horning 2019),但没有发起新的实地调查。这篇简短的笔记,虽然是根据编辑的要求展望未来,但它的起源是回顾性的,而不是来自前线的信件。
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14:36 – I am slightly late, but Tim is still there with his previous meeting, finishing lunch. This table has witnessed hundreds of conversations and is surely a landmark for public archaeology. I am not going to make a biography here, maybe you can learn something about him from the interview. If you follow this journal, and public archaeology, you probably know something about him already.
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Ten years seems little time to assess the future of such a relatively young topic as Public Archaeology (PA) is, in special in Spain and in the academic arena. I divide my answer in two classic parts: present and future. By understanding the present (based on the past) we can try to guess (more or less) the future… Even if we think in the context of a pandemic, predicting the future of anything becomes really uncertain and reckless. If I may write, there is a high level of uncertainty and luck in getting it right.
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An obsession with origins is a hallmark of pseudoarchaeology, while the celebration of arbitrary anniversaries is one of the more meaningless conceits of the heritage industry. In that spirit, I would like to wish a happy tenth anniversary to AP: Online Journal in Public Archaeology, and to extend my warmest congratulations to the editorial team.
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In Nepal – and perhaps true in other South Asian countries as well, the term ‘public archaeology’ is not very frequently used among heritage professionals. Though it exists in limited use, largely the heritage practice including archaeology in Nepal is experts or authority driven. Perhaps the primary reason for this is the lack of a critical mass of archaeologists and broader heritage practitioners as well as a general lack of awareness among the public. There are disciplinary crisis situations prevalent across heritage related studies and practice areas in Nepal. However, with the increasing landscape of academic programmes and professional awareness among younger generations, we can be hopeful. Hence, I would expect that we will be able to create sufficient interests among students and younger professionals towards archaeology and heritage.
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Public Archaeology is a young discipline, we all know that. It’s even younger in Italy, where public archaeology has not even reached ‘adulthood’. Cited for the first time by Armando De Guio in 2000 (De Guio and Bressan 2000), it was only a decade later that Public Archaeology has started to become ‘a thing’, thanks to some pioneering experiences at the University of Florence (Bonacchi 2009; Vannini 2011), and especially after a national conference in 2012 (in Florence: see Zuanni 2013 for a summary). Italian archaeologists’ first reaction was to overlap the new discipline with the experiences already in place, which in Italy were under the category of ‘valorizzazione’ (enhancement). They were not exactly the same: while Public Archaeology is characterised by a reflection on the objectives of the research from the very start, a focus on having a reliable methodology, and a strong element linked to evaluation, ‘enhancement’ experiences – while often valuable and successful – lacked the same structure and reliability. This is probably due to an underestimation of these practices as a scientific topic, thus deserving the same structure required for any other type of research. Often this resulted in a mere description of the activities carried out, with a generic objective like ‘increasing the knowledge of archaeology in the public sphere’ without really evaluating if the activities worked or not. Public Archaeology became a sort of a trendy subject, outdating the term ‘valorizzazione’, at least in most of the university milieu, and creating confusion on the subject and the methodology. This sometimes has led to a sort of ‘hangover’ effect, similar to what happens with summer songs: they sound fun when you first hear them, but after months you just want to move on! Few doctoral theses awarded in Archaeology have been devoted to topics related to Public Archaeology up to the present date and the risk is that after this ‘hangover’ the subject will be penalised in comparison to others.
我们都知道,公共考古学是一门年轻的学科。在意大利甚至更年轻,那里的公共考古甚至还没有“成熟”。2000年,Armando De Guio首次引用了公共考古学(De Guio and Bressan 2000),仅仅十年后,由于佛罗伦萨大学的一些开创性经验,公共考古学开始成为“一件事”(Bonacchi 2009;Vannini 2011),尤其是在2012年的一次全国会议之后(在佛罗伦萨:见Zuanni 2013的摘要)。意大利考古学家的第一反应是将新学科与已有的经验重叠起来,这些经验在意大利属于“强化”的范畴。它们并不完全相同:虽然公共考古学的特点是从一开始就对研究目标进行反思,关注可靠的方法,以及与评估相关的强大元素,但“增强”经验-虽然通常是有价值和成功的-缺乏相同的结构和可靠性。这可能是由于低估了这些实践作为一个科学主题,因此应该为任何其他类型的研究提供相同的结构。这通常导致了对所进行的活动的简单描述,带有诸如“在公共领域增加考古学知识”之类的一般目标,而没有真正评估这些活动是否有效。公共考古学成为了一门时髦的学科,至少在大多数大学环境中,它已经过时了“价值”这个词,并且在这个学科和方法论上造成了混乱。这有时会导致一种“宿醉”效应,就像夏天的歌曲一样:当你第一次听到它们时,它们听起来很有趣,但几个月后,你只想继续前进!迄今为止,很少有获得考古学博士学位的论文致力于与公共考古学相关的主题,风险在于,在“宿醉”之后,与其他学科相比,该学科将受到惩罚。
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It seems like it was only yesterday that the Spanish government was giving away domains and Jaime got arqueologiapublica.es without really knowing what to do with it yet. A couple of years later, this domain became the home of a new journal and a dream came true. Today, after much hard work, a lot of perseverance and having overcome many challenges, we are pleased to announce the publication of the tenth volume and getting ready to embrace a new era for the journal that will hopefully bring about further improvements.
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In 2018, Mexico held its presidential election; its results soon clearly indicated that the left-wing candidate, with a degree in political science and a fierce critic of the ruling political system, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, would become President. Following his triumph, many cultural organizations, unions and employees of the field jubilantly celebrated what they thought would mean a strengthening of cultural policies and a kind of return to the years of President Lázaro Cárdenas del Río who put archeology, indigenism and culture at the heart of his government policies.
2018年,墨西哥举行了总统选举;选举结果很快明确表明,拥有政治学学位、对执政政治制度持强烈批评态度的左翼候选人安德烈斯·曼努埃尔·洛佩斯·奥夫拉多尔将成为总统。在他获胜后,许多文化组织、工会和该领域的员工都兴高采烈地庆祝他们认为这意味着加强文化政策,并回归总统Lázaro Cárdenas del Río的时代,他将考古学、本土主义和文化置于政府政策的核心。
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