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Why Archaeology?

Why Archaeology?. George Leigh Mallory: “Because its there”.

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Why Archaeology?

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  1. Why Archaeology?

  2. George Leigh Mallory:“Because its there” When asked by a New York Times reporter in 1923 why he wanted to climb Mount Everest, the British mountaineer stated, ”Because it’s there.” Mallory and a companion died a year later on the slopes of Everest. Whether they reached the summit before their deaths remains a mystery. Until now ….

  3. Mallory, discovered at 27,000 ftin 1999: archaeological

  4. Tut Fate Lenin

  5. Otzi, the Ice Man 3300 BC

  6. Relics:metonymy St. Anthony of Padua Saint Stephen Saint Valentine Saint Jerome

  7. Draw an archaeologist you do not need to sign your name, but please a. Indicate if you are male or female and your country of origin b. imagine where your archaeologist is (it is optional whether you choose to draw this)

  8. If you can draw an archaeologist then what is archaeology??

  9. Howard CarterTutankhamen1923Can you see anything?Yes, wonderful THINGS …

  10. Looking down on Wonderful Things

  11. If the correspondents do not weaken we may yet have Tut’s jewel-encrusted golf sticks and mummified caddie taken from the tomb

  12. Photo Opp Carter with benefactor Callander

  13. Why African Diaspora Archaeology?

  14. People without History “those to whom a history has been denied by those who have claimed history as their own … it is not surprising to find non-western peoples depicted in conventional western histories as passive recipients of change inaugurated by western culture-bearers” McIntosh et al 125-6

  15. Small things forgotten: the Mundane

  16. Retentions

  17. Unconventional “I think as much as there is an obvious demand upon a growing mind to ‘learn,’ there is an equally big demand to ‘unlearn,’ but I am of the opinion that the demand to unlearn gets drowned out as we unknowingly, (and almost irreversibly), structure our lives to prepare for the realities of our living circumstances … I think of such a discovery as being in terms of obtaining an awareness about the unknown, unrevealed gifts or exceptional qualities that an individual may bear; things that could be immensely beneficial to the world – a gradient or exponent above what is practical.”

  18. Power and Memory Genocide is about the destruction of memory. The destruction of memory involves the destruction of all possible connections to even established family trees. (in Shepherd 2007:104)

  19. Uncommon Fate: an ethical archaeology

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