And why not showcase the wonderful research & researchers we were privileged to hear from today! So without further ado, have a look at our brilliant speakers and we hope you’re as inspired by their work as we have been throughout the day! ✨ #StatesOfBeing(s) #PoliticsOfBodies

We had the pleasure of listening to Madeleine Fyles (University of Toronto) fascinating work on Cyclical Bodies and Temporalities of Social Memory in Peru - as understood through trees as more-than-human bodies and ancestral bodies 🌳 TAG44@UEANorwich

University of Toronto TAG44@UEANorwich Next @renatelarssen discussed ‘Multispecies Vikings - Disrupting the Human/Non-Human Binary in Archaeology’; and centred the animal bodies in the Viking Age burial of A505 from Trekroner-Grydehøj (Denmark) through her new approach of archaeoethology 🐴🐕 TAG44@UEANorwich

University of Toronto TAG44@UEANorwich @renatelarssen bodypolitics Dr Marianne Hem Eriksen European Research Council (ERC) University of Leicester This was followed by an exploration of children in archaeology w/ Brad Marshall presenting his theoretical framework for ‘The Archaeological Posthuman Child’; which takes a transcorporeal approach to understanding childhood and the life-course in the past 👧🏽👦🏼🧒🏻👶🏿 TAG44@UEANorwich

University of Toronto TAG44@UEANorwich @renatelarssen bodypolitics Dr Marianne Hem Eriksen European Research Council (ERC) University of Leicester Brad Marshall School of Archaeology & Ancient History Then we were joined by Chessil Dohvehnain who enlightened us about the challenges of ‘Assembling Bodies: Affect, Gender & More-Than-Human Personhood’ in his study of ritual sites in 🇲🇽 where human bones have been transformed into ‘other’ anthropo-/zoomorphic objects 🪈 TAG44@UEANorwich

University of Toronto TAG44@UEANorwich @renatelarssen bodypolitics Dr Marianne Hem Eriksen European Research Council (ERC) University of Leicester Brad Marshall School of Archaeology & Ancient History Chessil Dohvehnain John Robb and Dr Jess Thompson (Cambridge University) delighted us with a fascinating investigation of ‘Different Ways of Constituting Leaders and Ancestors’ through the diverse material from the ANCESTORS project 💀 TAG44@UEANorwich arch.cam.ac.uk/research/proje…

University of Toronto TAG44@UEANorwich @renatelarssen bodypolitics Dr Marianne Hem Eriksen European Research Council (ERC) University of Leicester Brad Marshall School of Archaeology & Ancient History Chessil Dohvehnain Dr Jess Thompson Cambridge University Next Emma Louise Thompson (University of Leicester) explored ‘The Cost of Gendered Death in Viking Age Denmark’ - based on her brilliant masters thesis - where she showed how gender is communicated and negotiated through different objects deposited in burials across Jutland 🧿 TAG44@UEANorwich

University of Toronto TAG44@UEANorwich @renatelarssen bodypolitics Dr Marianne Hem Eriksen European Research Council (ERC) University of Leicester Brad Marshall School of Archaeology & Ancient History Chessil Dohvehnain Dr Jess Thompson Cambridge University Emma Louise Thompson Uni of Birmingham UK Research and Innovation Midlands4Cities We then moved on to interrogate ‘The Pregnant Body and Archaeologies of Absence’ w/ bodypolitics presenting their soon to be published work on finding pregnant bodies in Viking Age Scandinavia, through iconography, later textual sources and the burial record 🤰🏻 TAG44@UEANorwich

University of Toronto TAG44@UEANorwich @renatelarssen bodypolitics Dr Marianne Hem Eriksen European Research Council (ERC) University of Leicester Brad Marshall School of Archaeology & Ancient History Chessil Dohvehnain Dr Jess Thompson Cambridge University Emma Louise Thompson Uni of Birmingham UK Research and Innovation Midlands4Cities This was followed by Catherine Jones & Dr Matt Hitchcock presenting a perfect synergy of ‘Determining the Mark of the Sword on The Body in Later Prehistoric Britain’ - through human bodies who suffered violent trauma and shield bodies showing violent trauma ⚔️ TAG44@UEANorwich

University of Toronto TAG44@UEANorwich @renatelarssen bodypolitics Dr Marianne Hem Eriksen European Research Council (ERC) University of Leicester Brad Marshall School of Archaeology & Ancient History Chessil Dohvehnain Dr Jess Thompson Cambridge University Emma Louise Thompson Uni of Birmingham UK Research and Innovation Midlands4Cities Catherine Jones Dr Matt Hitchcock The University of Manchester UoMCAHAE Then we got an interesting insight into the intimate story of ‘George: The Head from Holderness’ from Melanie Giles (UoMCAHAE), who questioned how and why this decapitated Iron Age head ended up in a wetland environment and not in one of the Arras cemeteries 💀 TAG44@UEANorwich

University of Toronto TAG44@UEANorwich @renatelarssen bodypolitics Dr Marianne Hem Eriksen European Research Council (ERC) University of Leicester Brad Marshall School of Archaeology & Ancient History Chessil Dohvehnain @jess_e_thompson Cambridge University Emma Louise Thompson Uni of Birmingham UK Research and Innovation Midlands4Cities Catherine Jones Dr Matt Hitchcock The University of Manchester UoMCAHAE After which @jess_e_thompson (Cambridge University) gave us her critical reflections on the interplay between big data aDNA/bioinformatics and archaeology, and the need for more productive interdisciplinary conversations, in her paper ‘Resurrecting Transhuman Ghosts’ 🔬 TAG44@UEANorwich

University of Toronto TAG44@UEANorwich @renatelarssen bodypolitics Dr Marianne Hem Eriksen European Research Council (ERC) University of Leicester Brad Marshall School of Archaeology & Ancient History Chessil Dohvehnain @jess_e_thompson Cambridge University Emma Louise Thompson Uni of Birmingham UK Research and Innovation Midlands4Cities Catherine Jones Dr Matt Hitchcock The University of Manchester UoMCAHAE Dulcie Newbury (University of Bradford) showed how archaeology can play a central and significant role in opening up conversations on ‘Beyond the Binary’ of gender identities, and facilitate positive mental health and wellbeing, especially among the trans community ⚧️ TAG44@UEANorwich

University of Toronto TAG44@UEANorwich @renatelarssen bodypolitics Dr Marianne Hem Eriksen European Research Council (ERC) University of Leicester Brad Marshall School of Archaeology & Ancient History Chessil Dohvehnain @jess_e_thompson Cambridge University Emma Louise Thompson Uni of Birmingham UK Research and Innovation Midlands4Cities Catherine Jones Dr Matt Hitchcock The University of Manchester UoMCAHAE University of Bradford Then Aoife Sutton-Butler👩🏻‍🦰☠️ (University of Bradford) took us on a journey through fascinating museum collections of archaeological & medical bodies - and body-parts - in her examination of museum goers attitudes towards the display of human remains in various states of preservation 🧠 TAG44@UEANorwich

University of Toronto TAG44@UEANorwich @renatelarssen bodypolitics Dr Marianne Hem Eriksen European Research Council (ERC) University of Leicester Brad Marshall School of Archaeology & Ancient History Chessil Dohvehnain @jess_e_thompson Cambridge University Emma Louise Thompson Uni of Birmingham UK Research and Innovation Midlands4Cities Catherine Jones Dr Matt Hitchcock The University of Manchester UoMCAHAE University of Bradford Aoife Sutton-Butler👩🏻‍🦰☠️ Our penultimate paper was given by Sabrina Autenrieth (Universiteit Leiden) who came from the Netherlands to join us and share her study on using #Bodyscapes as ‘A 3-Body-Solution for a Categorical Problem’;to understand objects deposited in the Rhine environs ⚒️ TAG44@UEANorwich

Day 3 of TAG44@UEANorwich and the Centre for African Art & Archaeology, UEA sponsored session convened by Intisar Soghayroun is underway. Here Prof Paul Lane Cambridge Archaeology on awareness as a safeguarding strategy to counter negative effects of climate change on sites in #Kenya and #Ethiopia

Climate TAG UEA are very pleased to announce that Shantol Campell has won the first annual Don Henson Prize for her paper with Marvin Demicoli on The emotions of ethnic diversity in archaeology. The Organising Committee felt that this paper best fulfilled the criteria.

The latest 🅰ntiquity Journal editorial features #archaeology & #climatechange through the lens two recent conferences: the Shanghai Archaeology Forum and UEA TAG44 TAG44@UEANorwich doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2…