Museums and Archaeology

<p><em>Museums and Archaeology</em> brings together a wide, but carefully chosen, selection of literature from around the world that connects museums and archaeology. Part of the successful <em>Leicester Readers in Museum Studies</em> series, it provides a combination of issue- and practice-based perspectives. As such, it is a volume not only for students and researchers from a range of disciplines interested in museum, gallery and heritage studies, including public archaeology and cultural resource management (CRM), but also the wide range of professionals and volunteers in the museum and heritage sector who work with archaeological collections.</p><p>The volume’s balance of theory and practice and its thematic and geographical breadth is explored and explained in an extended introduction, which situates the readings in the context of the extensive literature on museum archaeology, highlighting the many tensions that exist between idealistic ‘principles’ and real-life ‘practice’ and the debates that surround these. In addition to this, section introductions and the seminal pieces themselves provide a comprehensive and contextualised resource on the interplay of museums and archaeology.</p> <p>1. Museums and archaeology: principles, practice and debates<br>ROBIN SKEATES</p><p><strong>PART ONE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS</strong></p><p>Introduction to Part One<br>ROBIN SKEATES</p><p>2. Managing curated collections: the basics<br>LYNNE P. SULLIVAN AND S. TERRY CHILDS</p><p>3. Archaeological curation in the 21st century. Or, making sure the roof doesn’t blow off<br>WENDY BUSTARD</p><p>4. Primal fear: deaccessioning collections<br>ROBERT C. SONDERMAN</p><p>5. Archaeological archives: serving the public interest?<br>NICK MERRIMAN AND HEDLEY SWAIN</p><p>6. Archaeological archives in Britain and the development of the London Archaeological Archive and Research Centre<br>HEDLEY SWAIN </p><p>7. Inventory and global management in archaeology: the example of the Neuchâtel Museum<br>MARIE-ODILE VAUDOU</p><p>8. Issues in practice: conservation procedures<br>ELIZABETH PYE</p><p>9. Caring for an Egyptian mummy and coffin<br>LAURA S. PHILLIPS AND LINDA ROUNDHILL</p><p>10. Gristhorpe Man: an Early Bronze Age log-coffin burial scientifically defined<br>NIGEL MELTON, JANET MONTGOMERY, CHRISTOPHER J. KNÜSEL, CATHY BATT, STUART NEEDHAM, MIKE PARKER PEARSON, ALISON SHERIDAN, CARL HERON, TIM HORSLEY, ARMIN SCHMIDT, ADRIAN EVANS, ELIZABETH CARTER, HOWELL EDWARDS, MICHAEL HARGREAVES, ROB JANAWAY, NIELS LYNNERUP, PETER NORTHOVER, SONIA O'CONNOR, ALAN OGDEN, TIMOTHY TAYLOR, VAUGHAN WASTLING AND ANDREW WILSON</p><p>11. History and surface condition of the Lewis Chessmen in the collection of the National Museums Scotland (Hebrides, late 12th–early 13th centuries)<br>JIM TATE, INA REICHE, FLAVIA PINZARI, JANE CLARK AND DAVID CALDWELL</p><p><strong>PART TWO: ARCHAEOLOGY, ETHICS AND THE LAW</strong></p><p>Introduction to Part Two<br>ROBIN SKEATES</p><p>12. From museum to mantelpiece: the antiquities trade in the United Kingdom<br> KATHRYN WALKER TUBB AND NEIL BRODIE</p><p>13. The revolution in U.S. museums concerning the ethics of acquiring antiquities<br>JENNIFER ANGLIM KREDER</p><p>14. Repatriation: Australian perspectives<br>MICHAEL GREEN AND PHIL GORDON</p><p>15. The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act in its first decade<br>JAMES A.R. NAFZIGER AND REBECCA J. DOBKINS</p><p>16. Policy and practice in the treatment of archaeological human remains in North American museum and public agency collections<br>FRANCIS P. MCMANAMON</p><p>17. Covering up the mummies<br>TIFFANY JENKINS</p><p><strong>PART THREE: INTERPRETING THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL PAST</strong></p><p>Introduction to Part Three<br>ROBIN SKEATES</p><p>18. Presenting the past: towards a redemptive aesthetic for the museum<br>MICHAEL SHANKS AND CHRISTOPHER TILLEY</p><p>19. Speaking for the past in the present: text, authority and learning in archaeology museums<br>ROBIN SKEATES</p><p>20. Towards presenting scientific research in archaeology museums<br> MARK S. COPLEY</p><p>21. Prehistory, identity, and archaeological representation in Nordic museums<br>JANET E. LEVY</p><p>22. Is it enough to make the main characters female? An intersectional and social semiotic reading of the exhibition Prehistories 1 at the National Historical Museum in Stockholm, Sweden<br>ANNIKA BÜNZ</p><p>23. The Jorvik Viking Centre: an experiment in archaeological site interpretation<br>PETER ADDYMAN AND ANTHONY GAYNOR</p><p>24. The new Museum of Altamira: finding solutions to tourism pressure<br>JOSÉ ANTONIO LASHERAS CORRUCHAGA AND PILAR FATÁS MONFORTE</p><p>25. Archaeological site museums in Latin America<br>HELAINE SILVERMAN</p><p>26. The new Acropolis Museum: where the visual feast trumps education<br>KATIE RASK</p><p>27. Development and utilization of underground space for the protection of relics in the Yang Emperor Mausoleum of the Han Dynasty<br>ZHILONG CHEN, PING ZHANG AND JUXI LI</p><p>28. The Port Royal Project: a case study in the use of VR technology for the recontextualization of archaeological artifacts and building remains in a museum setting<br>HARRY HELLING, CHARLIE STEINMETZ, ERIC SOLOMON AND BERNARD FRISCHER</p><p>29. Teaching the past in museums<br>JOANNE LEA</p><p>30. Interaction or tokenism? The role of hands-on activities in museum archaeology displays<br>JANET OWEN</p><p>31. The re-display of the Alexander Keiller Museum, Avebury, and the National Curriculum in England<br>PETER G. STONE</p><p>32. Roman boxes for London's schools: an outreach service by the Museum of London<br>JENNY HALL AND HEDLEY SWAIN</p><p>33. Translating archaeology for the public: empowering and engaging museum goers with the past<br>ALEXANDRA A. CHAN</p><p>34. Involving the public in museum archaeology<br>NICK MERRIMAN</p><p>35. Public archaeology and museums in Japan<br>DEVENA HAGGIS</p><p>36. Uncovering ancient Egypt: the Petrie Museum and its public<br>SALLY MACDONALD AND CATHERINE SHAW</p><p>37. Re-imagining Egypt: artefacts, contemporary art and community engagement in the museum<br>GEMMA TULLY</p><p>38. Working towards greater equity and understanding: examples of collaborative archaeology and museum initiatives with Indigenous peoples in North America<br>SARAH CARR-LOCKE AND GEORGE NICHOLAS</p><p>39. Conversations about the production of archaeological knowledge and community museums at Chunchucmil and Kochol, Yucatán, México<br>TRACI ARDREN</p><p>40. Us and them: who benefits from experimental exhibition making?<br>PETE BROWN</p>