New Frontiers in Archaeology: Proceedings of the Cambridge Annual Student Archaeology Conference 2019

Contents

New Frontiers in Archaeology – Kyra Kaercher and Monique Arntz ;

Session 1: Strength in Numbers: Combining Old Datasets to Answer New Questions ;
Strength in Numbers: Combining Old Datasets to Answer New Questions – Lucy Timbrell ;
Hunting in the Neolithic: Zooarchaeological Meta-analysis of the Role of Wild Mammals in Eastern Europe 6500-3000 BCE – Giselle F. Rainsford-Betts ;
The Relevance of Çatalhöyük Reflexive Diaries – Gustavo Sandoval ;
Multiple Datasets, Multiple Meanings? A Reanalysis of Multiple Internment Burials in Early Anglo-Saxon England – Caroline Palmer ;
The Reuse of Archaeological Data: Grand Challenges and New Approaches to Southern Levantine Mortuary Archaeology – Sara Mura ;

Session 2: Past and Future-Lifestyle and Inequality ;
Past and Future-Lifestyle and Inequality – Sabrina Ki and Helena Muñoz-Mojado ;
Magdalenian Minds: Evaluating the Role of Cognition in Mobiliary Art of the Magdalenian – Molly Hardman ;
Gathering Practices in Eastern-Central Sweden During the Middle and Late Mesolithic – Erik Solfeldt ;
Missing Objects: New Perspectives to Tackle the Problem of Textile Activity – Patricia Rosell Garrido ;

Session 3: Animal-Human Interactions: Becoming, Creating, Relating ;
Animal-Human Interactions: Becoming, Creating, Relating – Izzy Wisher and Kevin Kay ;
Beating the Dead Horse? Using Ethnography for Middle Palaeolithic Zooarchaeological Contexts in North-West Europe – Erica Priestley ;
Hounds of Hel: How Did the Mythological Significance of Viking Age Dogs Affect their Social Position? – Jessica Cousen ;
Hold Your Horses – Animals in Ancient Thrace – Stella Nikolova ;
Seen but not Herd: Animals in La Tène Art in England and Wales – Rebecca L. Ellis ;
Wolf vs. Dragon. What if Medieval Dragons Were Wolf-Headed Snakes from Antiquity? – Giuseppe Delia ;

Session 4: Public Archaeology in the Light of Global Politics: New Challenges and Opportunities ;
Public Archaeology in the Light of Global Politics: New Challenges and Opportunities – Nancy Bomentre ;
Rights of Cultural Objects: Gypsy Girl Reuniting with Her Company – Elvin Akbulut Dağlıer ;
Papa He’e Nalu: Two Surfboards from Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum – Joanna Tonge ;

Session 5: New Frontiers in the Archaeology of Buildings ;
New Frontiers in the Archaeology of Buildings – Xosé L. Hermoso-Buxán ;
Desert Kites: A New Frontier in Near Eastern Archaeology – Mariam Shakhmuradyan ;
Peculiar Elements of the Built Environment: The Problem of ‘Special Rural Settlements’ and Identification of Rural Social Hierarchies. Archaeological Evidence from a Medieval Village in the Western Periphery of the German Central Uplands – Roman Zabolotnîi ;
The Fort-Towers in La Rioja (Central-Northern Iberia): Conservation Status and Rehabilitations – Isaac Martínez-Espinosa ;

Session 6: New Frontiers in Archaeological Sciences: Trowel-Blazing at the Cutting Edge? ;
Introduction: Really Cool Stuff in the Future of Archaeological Sciences – Ruairidh Macleod