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ABSTRACT
This is a review of the 6th Postgraduate Conflict Archaeology conference held in Glasgow in October of 2019. It summarizes the presentations and keynotes delivered at the two-day conference, and reflects on the benefit of postgraduate and ECR specific conferences, the gender disparity within the field of conflict archaeology, and the importance of a supportive network of colleagues.
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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.
Notes
1. ‘I realized that we live in a time when discrimination can land you in jail, but I must risk it and say that you stand a better chance of taking on an inexperienced male volunteer than a female. Digging is, after all, a masculine occupation, and while more women than men are likely to do well in the pot-washing shed or in the laboratory, shovel-wielding females are not everyday sights in Western society. If they are to be useful on a site (and the right women can be splendid excavators), they must be prepared to be accepted as men, eschewing the traditional rights of their sex. It is vastly time-wasting for men in one area to be constantly hopping up and down to push barrows for women working in another. Besides, it is inordinately restricting after clouting one’s knee with a shovel to have to look around to see if women are in earshot before commenting on it. … Effective archaeology demands complete concentration on the work in hand, and the more feminine the woman the more lax the concentration. One lady volunteer improperly dressed for the occasion can cause havoc throughout the crew as well as damaging the ground on which she walks. High heels and low décolletage are a lethal combination.’ (Noël Hume Citation1968, 60).
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Notes on contributors
Camilla Damlund
Camilla Damlund gained her MLitt in Conflict Archaeology and Heritage from the University of Glasgow in 2017. Since then she has been an affiliate researcher for the Centre for Battlefield Archaeology at the University of Glasgow. Her research interests include modern conflict archaeology, the archaeology of internment, dark heritage, and the archaeology of genocide.
Sophie M. McMillan
Sophie M. McMillan also gained her MLitt in Conflict Archaeology and Heritage from the University of Glasgow in 2017. She is an affiliate researcher for the Centre for Battlefield Archaeology, as well as an assistant editor for the Journal of Conflict Archaeology. Her research interests include conflict archaeology and history, thanatourism, thanatology, and heritage.