This episode is the third (final) installment of a three-part series produced by Eleanor Neil, contributing editor at American Anthropologist and Anthropological Airwaves. From the African American Burial Ground in New York City to the memorialization of violence in Northern Ireland to professional archaeology in the eastern Mediterranean, Eleanor asks archaeologists with different regional and methodological specialties to choose a single object or site, and, in their own words describe how this this site or artefact speaks to the interaction between archaeology and political or social identity across time and place.

Here, Eleanor, an archaeologist herself, takes up the very prompt she posed to Dr. Cheryl Janifer LaRoche and Dr. Laura McAtackney in first two episodes of the series: to consider the role archaeology plays in the creation of contemporary political social discourses in the context of her own research on community archaeology on the eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus.

Eleanor Neil is a PhD candidate in the Classics department at Trinity College Dublin. She is also a recipient of an AG Leventis educational scholarship and a Long Room Hub Early Career Researcher.

*Special thanks to to Professor Michael Toumazou (Davidson College) and Professor Derek Counts (UW Miluakee) for their generosity of time and conversation. 

Further Reading:
Counts, Derek B., and Elisabetta Cova, P. Nick Kardulias, Michael K. Toumazou. “Fitting In: Archaeology and Community in Athienou, Cyprus.” Near Eastern Archaeology 76, no. 3 (2013): 166-177.

Counts, D.B. “A History of Archaeological Activity in the Athienou Region.” In Crossroads and Boundaries: The Archaeology of Past and Present in the Malloura Valley, Cyprus, Annual of ASOR 65, edited by M. K. Toumazou, P. N. Kardulias, and D. B. Counts, 45–54. Boston: American Schools of Oriental Research, 2012. 

The Kallinikeo Museum website: https://www.athienou.org.cy/en/episkeftheite/kallinikeio-dimotiko-mouseio/

Transcript: https://www.americananthropologist.org/podcast/archaeological-identities-part-03
Close-Captioning:  https://youtu.be/5wkOD6hfhtM 

Credits:
Writing, Production & Editing: Eleanor Neil
Editorial and Production Support: Anar Parikh
Executive Producer - Anar Parikh
Thumbnail Image: Eleanor Neil
Featured Music: “Westlin’ Winds” by Eoin O’Donnell
Intro/Outro: "Waiting" by Crowander

S04E05 - Archaeological Identities Pt. 3

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