Desptaches Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
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The British Museum in London was the venue for the first British Archaeology conference over the weekend just gone. It was organised by magazine Current Archaeology as a “festival” of, as they put it “The best of British Archaeology, at home and abroad”. In truth, the speaker list was impressive enough to substantiate this strap line with some of the big names and big themes under discussion.
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On Sunday there was a session on Conflict Archaeology in which two of our project members spoke: anthropologist Nick Saunders gave an overview of the rise of “Conflict Archaeology” and made clear its difference to “Battlefield Archaeology”. It was nice to see that Nick’s second image was of the team at work on Jon’s trench beside the Factory Farm crater.
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One of our intrepid leaders, Martin, presented on “Mud, Blood & Archaeology” and sought to look at No Man’s Land projects on the Western Front (by which he meant France, Belgium and the training areas of UK). Inevitably the Plugstreet Project featured heavily in the presentation due to its innovative use of such a wide range of techniques and its belief in looking beyond the battlefield to the wider world affected by the war.
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There was some interesting discussion and comment we have subsequently received also showed that the full lecture theatre had thoroughly enjoyed it and continued to think about it afterwards.
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We have nothing but thanks for the organisers for this opportunity to present in such a remarkable venue and at such a prestigious and well organised event and wish them all success in trying to make this conference an annual event.
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