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Materiality in Archaeology, a graduate short seminar chaired by Lynn Meskell, Columbia University, March 4-8, 2004.

Participants

Lynn Meskell, Chair
Department of Anthropology, Columbia University

Erin Hasinoff
Department of Anthropology, Columbia University

Karen Holmberg
Department of Anthropology, Columbia University

Marisa Lazarri
Department of Anthropology, Columbia University

Carrie Nakamura
Department of Anthropology, Columbia University

Matthew Palus
Department of Anthropology, Columbia University

Martin Skystrup
Department of Anthropology, Columbia University

Lindsay Weiss
Department of Anthropology, Columbia University

Standing (from left): Lindsay Weiss, Erin Hasinoff, Karen Holmberg, Martin Skystrup, Marisa Lazarri

Seated (from left): Carrie Nakamura, Lynn Meskell (chair), Matthew Palus

Summary

Materiality in Archaeology

A seminar of Columbia University graduate students chaired by associate professor of anthropology and former SAR resident scholar Lynn Meskell addressed “Materiality in Archaeology.” “Archaeologists have left the investigation of materiality to ethnographers, who have at their disposal materially rich contemporary settings from which to probe issues of consumption, variability, classification, and meaning,” Meskell said. “Arguably, much the same materials are available to many archaeologists. We simply have to ask a new suite of questions and reconfigure our old materials in new ways.” The purpose of the seminar was to “consider creative reconceptualizations of materiality and its consequences.”

 

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