Stories told by trash of the ancestors, digging on Mackinac Island

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/mackinac-island-trash-dump

Literally salvage archaeology in two senses of the term: quick work at the time of major construction to salvage social and cultural information from the exposed ground, and also salvage as in 'junk yard' salvaging value from what has been discarded.

This article describes the work undertaken as part of the relocation of the island airstrip.

language as political hot-potato that is hard to handle (English graveyard, Gaelic text)

excerpt from Church of England refuses to allow foreign language on a gravestone, calling it a "political statement"

...the Church of England pushed back again when they saw the planned inscription on the cross: "In ár gcroíthe go deo," which means, "In our hearts forever" in the Irish language. This didn't seem particularly radical, especially as there are already Welsh inscriptions in the same cemetery. But once again, the diocesan advisory committee denied the family's headstone proposal. "Given the passions and feelings connected with the use of Irish Gaelic," said a Church judge who is also a local government judge, "There is a sad risk that the phrase would be regarded as some form of slogan or that its inclusion without translation would of itself be seen as a political statement."

After yet another appeal, the judge agreed to allow the Irish words only if they're accompanied by an English translation.

full text, https://boingboing.net/2020/06/26/church-of-england-refuses-to-a.html

excerpt, Indigenous + Scholarly lens on local life

extracted from "Indigenous Sociology for Social Impact" by Zuleyka Zevallos [The Sociological Review]

at https://www.thesociologicalreview.com/indigenous-sociology-for-social-impact/

...While sociology largely ignores Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives, Associate Professor Butler shows that the way in which we teach, research and discuss Indigenous experiences are framed through a White Western perspective that undervalues the complex cultures, spiritualities and social realities of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Non-Aboriginal sociologists focus on written texts that exclude Indigenous people, ignoring oral traditions and seeking to mediate Indigenous experiences through White authority. 

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Although the subject and context is different, there seems to a parallel impasse between campus-based scholars and their colleagues of the same training but working on applied/practicing project: academic thinkers seek grant support for wide engagement while applied thinkers seek client support for matters defined by contract - the former uses cases studies to get at larger questions, while the latter uses larger questions to frame specific instances to grapple with. Likewise of indigenous knowledge keepers versus outsider scholars there is an impasse as well as intersection. While both may engage in the same subject, the standpoints and purposes differ. Academics see the fieldwork subject as an illustration of wider things, while local experts see the subject as inseparable from the names, places, and lives touched by that subject.

Britain's "Pompeii" time capsule, the Bronze Age site at Must Farm

Awarded the 2020 Antiquities prize for newly published and open access article, "The Must Farm pile-dwelling settlement."

The article provides a site overview and the current interpretations of the archaeology alongside discussing the material found during the 2015-16 excavations.

See https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2019.38

or look at Facebook for updates to the project, https://www.facebook.com/MustFarmArchaeology/