In this week’s blog post, Andrew L. Goldman takes us through his archaeological project at the ancient Roman auxiliary base at Gordion in central Anatolia, and the possibility that Pannonian soldiers were stationed at this site. Here, he highlights the role played by non-Romans in the military, while also using archaeological evidence to characterize auxiliary bases as multi-gendered and multi-generational spaces.
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Blog #112: “What Should You Do When You Encounter One of Our Egyptian Mummified Ancestors?” A 12-Point Manifesto on How to Deal with Egyptian Mummified Ancestral Remains with Egypt’s Dispersed Heritage Project
In this week’s blog post, we feature the work of our Egyptian colleagues from the Egypt’s Dispersed Heritage project. Here, they offer us a 12-point manifesto which highlights the ways in which the public can treat Egyptian mummified ancestral remains and their contemporary descendant communities with the dignity and respect that they deserve.
Blog Post #111: Telling New Stories: Do We Need to Display the Egyptian Dead? with Lisa Saladino Haney
In this week’s blog post, Dr. Lisa Saladino Haney takes us through her work on the Carnegie Museum of Natural History’s new “Egypt on the Nile” project, in which they are re-imagining the ways that we conceive of museum exhibitions related to ancient Egypt and the ethical treatment of the mummified human remains in the care of their museum.
Podcast Season 4, Episode 5: Naturalizing Inequalities: The Colonial Museum with Dan Hicks
In today’s episode of the Peopling the Past podcast, we are joined by Dr. Dan Hicks, professor of contemporary archaeology at the University of Oxford and the curator of World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum.
Listen in, as he discusses the role of modern museums in colonial mythologies, and what a path forward might look like.
Blog Post #19: Peopling the Past’s Approach to the Study and Display Human Remains
In this important post, Peopling the Past video producer, Christine Johnston, outlines some of the major ethical issues in excavating and displaying human remains, and explains Peopling the Past’s stance on this issue going forward.
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