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The World Archaeological Congress was established in 1986, after the controversial 11th meeting of the International Union for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences was banned from meeting in Southampton, United Kingdom during which the Southampton City Council and other organizations funding the meeting demanded that scholars from South Africa and Namibia were banned from participation in ...
Interpol International Regional Conference for the Protection of the Iraq Antiquities, Amman, Jordan. 2004; International Council of Museums ICOM Conference, Seoul, South Korea, 2004; Archaeological Institute of America, Boston, USA, 2004; International Conference for the Protection of Iraqi Antiquities, Washington DC, USA, 2005
Lewis Binford. Lewis Roberts Binford (November 21, 1931 – April 11, 2011) was an American archaeologist known for his influential work in archaeological theory, ethnoarchaeology and the Paleolithic period. He is widely considered among the most influential archaeologists of the later 20th century, and is credited with fundamentally changing ...
The Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW) is a center for advanced scholarly research and graduate education at New York University. ISAW's mission is to cultivate comparative, connective investigations of the ancient world from the western Mediterranean to China. [1] Areas of specialty among ISAW's faculty include the Greco-Roman ...
Headquarters. Washington, D.C. Location. United States. The Society for American Archaeology (SAA) is a professional association for the archaeology of the Americas. It was founded in 1934 and its headquarters are in based in Washington, D.C. As of 2019, it has 7,500 members. [1] Its current president is Deborah L. Nichols. [2]
The Society for Historical Archaeology (SHA) is a professional organization of scholars concerned with the archaeology of the modern world (15th century-present). Founded in 1967, the SHA promotes scholarly research and the dissemination of knowledge pertaining to historical archaeology. The society is specifically interested in the ...
Igbo-Ukwu Volume I & II. Chief Charles Thurstan Shaw CBE FBA FSA (27 June 1914 – 8 March 2013) was an English archaeologist, the first trained specialist to work in what was then British West Africa. He specialized in the ancient cultures of present-day Ghana and Nigeria. He helped establish academic institutions, including the Ghana National ...
The accord was adopted at the 1989 meeting of the World Archaeological Congress in Vermillion, South Dakota. [1] It was a response to concerns raised by indigenous peoples about the circumstances surrounding the collection and preservation of human remains. In particular, it addressed concerns that many remains were collected in the context of ...