Pub Date : 2020-06-23DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190888138.003.0004
R. Joyce
This chapter explores the second major element of the marker design, which called for a massive earthen berm, supported by citing mounds of the US Midwest, including Monk’s Mound at Cahokia and the Great Serpent Mound. It explores how the engineering knowledge needed to construct these mounds is underestimated by the markers’ experts, and how the archaeological sites treated as simple actually have complex histories of development, including repair and changes. It relates the dismissive treatment of this indigenous technology to earlier commentaries that questioned the creation of earthworks by Native Americans. It explores the concept of common sense and the kinds of expert opinion that were represented in the history of developing proposals for markers, and the special role given to meaning in identifying appropriate archaeological models to use. It is followed by an interlude considering Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty as a model for a monumental earthwork subject to entropy.
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Pub Date : 2020-06-23DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190888138.003.0010
R. Joyce
This chapter provides a deeper discussion of the theories of meaning and communication that were employed by the experts involved in developing plans for nuclear waste repository marker systems. These linguistic, semiotic, and psychological models were more important to planners than archaeological models for the material form. These models emphasized the intentions of people creating messages with the intention of having them be understood by receivers. The models used are contrasted with the kind of semiotic approaches, especially those rooted in the work of pragmatic philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce, that contemporary archaeologists employ, in which rather than having preformed meanings conveyed by a vehicle, meanings are constantly emerging in practice.
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Pub Date : 2020-06-23DOI: 10.1093/OSO/9780190888138.003.0009
R. Joyce
IN 2009, AN AUSTRALIAN art historian meditated on the prospect of contemporary Aboriginal art being used to mark a nuclear waste repository that might be built in that country. He began his essay with a summary of the plan for marking nuclear waste in the US:...
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Pub Date : 2020-06-23DOI: 10.1093/OSO/9780190888138.003.0005
R. Joyce
The area over the waste panels . . . would be outlined by earthen berms. These berms would be jagged in shape and would radiate out from, but not cover, a central area or “keep” even if some are destroyed. The four corner berms would be higher and provide a “vantage point” to see the area as a whole. The jagged nature of the berms is meant to convey a sense of foreboding (not honorific or pleasant)....
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Pub Date : 2020-06-23DOI: 10.1093/OSO/9780190888138.003.0003
R. Joyce
Stone from the outer rim of an enormous square is dynamited and then cast into large concrete/stone blocks, dyed black, and each about 25 feet on a side. They are deliberately irregular and distorted cubes. The cubic blocks are set in a grid, defining a square, with 5-foot-wide “streets” running both ways. You can get “in” it, but the streets lead nowhere, and they are too narrow to live in, farm in, or even meet in. It is a massive effort to deny use. At certain seasons it is very, very hot inside because of the black masonry’s absorption of the desert’s high sun-heat load. It is an ordered place, but crude in form, forbidding, and uncomfortable....
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LAND ART MAKERS AND Australian aboriginal painters were not the only artists whose work became entangled with proposals to mark nuclear waste disposal sites. In 2002, the director of the Desert Space Foundation in Nevada, Joshua Abbey, carried out an art competition for designs for a possible marker system for the Yucca Mountain site....
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