European and world archaeologies

Abstract

Relations between European archaeologies and those elsewhere in the world are manifold and complex. They involve issues in archaeological research, in dealing with archaeological heritage resources, and in the archaeological profession, that are also influenced by the dominant use of English. This paper explores some of those issues that were also presented at a debate during the World Archaeological Congress in Dublin.

Keywords:

• Europe
• archaeological heritage resources
• language
• indigenous issues
• stakeholders
• pseudoarchaeology
• world heritage

Acknowledgements

I am grateful to Nathan Schlanger (Paris), Monique van den Dries and Sjoerd van der Linde (Leiden) and to two anonymous reviewers for their comments on an earlier draft of this paper.

Faculty of Archaeology, University of Leiden

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Notes

1 See not only the discussions in Archaeological Dialogues, but also recently in the Forum section of Archaeologies, April 2008, 4(1): 164–200, and in the special issue on ‘Communication in Archaeology’ of the European Journal of Archaeology, August/December 2007, 10(2–3).

2 It may have been of limited interest to the political forces that provided the impetus, but that does not imply that the same was true for the early archaeologists and other researchers involved.