Aquileo | AP: Online Journal in Public Archaeology

Aquileo | Editorial: 2021, a new decade starts

Jaime Almansa-SÃ¡nchez — Sun, 07 Nov 2021 12:35:40 +0200

We have just celebrated ten years of open access public archaeology, and now we carry on with our venture. Volume 11 brings with it a new layout and format, as well as a new timing for publication. Since our inclusion in Scopus, improving quality goes in hand with the improvement of publication time. This is why, from now on (although this year is still a transitional period), volumes will open in January and close in October, with articles being published when they are ready. We are also starting a new section for shorter articles, aimed at the reporting of projects or ideas with a more formal format than our section Points of You, which will continue to retain its op-ed style. Of course, the philosophy does not change. We want to continue to be an opportunity of wider accessibility for authors and readers, and to continue exploring the physical and thematic frontiers of the discipline.

Aquileo | Entertainment outreach projects without losing scientific content: A Neolithic puppet show by senior citizens and Roma women

Sun, 07 Nov 2021 12:35:41 +0200

In this work, we present the genesis, development, and results of a set of inclusive outreach activities developed through a puppet theatre play about the Neolithic. We present our methodology and techniques for outreach activities, showing the advantages of collaborative work and bottom-up approaches. The text also explains how the initiative was born and how the contacts for its realization consolidated. All the activities were carried out with the utmost care for the scientific content since it is essential that the public comes to understand all the archaeological information and differentiates it from the entertaining and dramatic elements.

Aquileo | Modeling Municipal Heritage Management

Adriaan De Man, JoÃ£o Tiago Tavares — Sun, 07 Nov 2021 12:35:43 +0200

The resources medium-sized municipalities allocate in the process of both creating and maintaining instruments for heritage management have increased in the last decades. There are first and foremost legal reasons for this, as European national laws translate societal concerns on the preservation and commodification of the past. Sustainable solutions may be achieved through the understanding of heritage assets, and their use in the support of responsible, data-driven choices. This paper analyses a case of local tangible heritage administration in Oliveira de AzemÃ©is, Portugal.

Aquileo | Assessing endangerment of archaeological heritage in Latvia: legal framework and socio-economic aspects

Andris Kairiss, Irina Olevska — Sun, 07 Nov 2021 12:35:44 +0200

The aim of the article is to reflect the currently existing regulatory environment for damages caused to archaeological sites by illegal human intervention and its implementation by lawÂ enforcementÂ sector and the courts in Latvia. The article is mostly focused on legal and socio-economic consequences of endangerment of archaeological sites. It analyses liability aspects, examines case law, determines the existing challenges and proposes basis for improvement in administrative and legal procedures. Methods applied in the research are literature review, legal framework and documentary analysis, statistical and case law analysis. The results of the research could be usedÂ inter aliaÂ for the purposes ofÂ criminal, civil and administrative proceedings, amending legal regulation and damage assessment mechanisms.

Aquileo | The Gods die in museums

Jaime Delgado Rubio — Sun, 07 Nov 2021 12:35:45 +0200

Recently, Johannes Neurathâ€™s book, titled Subdue the gods, doubt the images (2020) was published, which, among other things, warns that, in the archaeological museums of Mexico, including the National Institute of Anthropology and History of Mexico City, there has been an â€œontological mistreatmentâ€ of the sacred images of the pre-Hispanic era through their removal from their original locations and indistinct placement in large and cold rooms packed with monoliths, without any consideration for the fact that some were â€“ and continue to be â€“ images bestowed with power and influence by many communities today.

Aquileo | Objects as battlefields in the struggle for civil rights: The archaeology and analysis of contemporary material culture and heritage in Chile

Dafna Goldschmidt Levinsky, Javiera Letelier Cosmelli — Sun, 07 Nov 2021 12:35:46 +0200

In October of 2019 began, as a manifestation of growing discontent, in SantiagoÂ de Chile a movement of social protests popularly known as â€œEstallido socialâ€. This movement marched against social inequality and high cost of living, targeting the neoliberal system established during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet as responsible. Although Chile has been a democracy since 1990, inequality and social injustice has perpetuatedÂ in democracy. We reflect on the role of the contemporary objects, their contexts and the position of archaeology in revealing current struggle discourse of civil rights, social diversity and social conflicts. Likewise, we analyze the transformation process of cultural heritage meanings through time, observable both in the appropriation of quotidian objects as way as protest as the resignification of the traditional monuments erected in the city.

Aquileo | Building heritage communities online: The experience of the Summer School Program â€˜Engaging Communities in Cultural Heritageâ€™

Claudia Hatsumi Uribe Chinen — Sun, 07 Nov 2021 12:35:48 +0200

The summer school program entitled â€˜Engaging Communities in Cultural Heritageâ€™ was held from 21 June to 5 July 2020, as part of the Executive Leadership Development in Heritage Management Workshops organized yearly by the Heritage Management Organization. This year in particular, the course was entirely held online due to the ongoing pandemic and the subsequent worldwide responses enforcing preventive measures and social distancing. Amid these challenging circumstances, the 2-week program was successfully conducted, taking advantage of the digital resources to materialize a syllabus designed to combine theoretical and practical perspectives regarding community engagement in heritage projects in Greece. The series of online meetings gathered 13 students from six countries in total (Greece, Iran, Kenya, Peru, Puerto Rico and Serbia) with different backgrounds and career experiences. This diversity enriched the dynamics of the workshop where group discussions and assignments played a substantial role, and fostered a unique and fertile environment of intercultural and multidisciplinary work.

Aquileo | Review: EducaciÃ³n y divulgaciÃ³n del patrimonio arqueolÃ³gico

Eduardo Cerrato Casado — Sun, 07 Nov 2021 12:35:50 +0200

A popular proverb states â€˜Don't play with your foodâ€™. ThisÂ maxim that not only concerns those of us who have the immense fortune of dedicating our working hours (and more if possible) to the noble discipline of archaeology and historical research. If anything is really clear to us, it is that Heritage (from the perspective of investigation, safeguard and management) is more thanÂ the â€˜foodâ€™ of a couple of professors and four tourist guides, but of many thousands whose income depends on it essentially through tourism. In fact, tourism in Spain in 2019 before the pandemic yielded 154,487 million Euros to the economy, representing 12.4% of its GDP. In fact, dear reader, please reflect on what drives you to go on vacation? And what leads you to choose one tourist destination over another? The response is simple: diversity. It represents a search for something that is unknown where you reside, something unique and unrepeatable that is only found at a particular destination, a unique setting offering an aesthetic or gastronomic experience that otherwise would not be worth the visiting. This book under review delves precisely into the question of this diversity we seek when traveling as it is Heritage (either material or intangible, artistic, monumental, archaeological or natural) that gives an identity to each city, each community. Heritage renders them different from other neighbouring cities. From a material point of view, Heritage is what attracts tourists and, even more, from a sentimental point of view, it is what offers signs of identity to locals. Thus in the end we are not only talking about â€˜things to eatâ€™.