The preliminary results of the #SEXLAVES project, coord. by Xurxo Ayan Vila and Carlos Otero, have been published in World Archaeology.
The project focuses on the archaeological study of materials found in #brothels in NW Spain that were in operation at the end of the 20th century.
Xurxo Ayán published a paper in the dossier "Contemporary Archaeology, politics of memory and local communities: a tricky mixture?" of the journal Archeologia Postmedievale.
The paper shows the limitations and conditions imposed by the traumatic past when developing an Archaeology project focused on the #EstadoNovo period.
https://www.insegnadelgiglio.it/prodotto/apm-archeologia-postmedievale-27-2023/
O Xurxo Ayán ha vuelto a G24 para una nueva temporada de Zig Zag.
Ayer, habló del proyecto #PALCOS, en curso en #Galicia, que estudia la arqueología y arquitectura de los escenarios de las fiestas de pueblo "para lograr unha mellor compresión da relación entre forma, tamaño e localización destas estruturas e a evolución da festa e das orquestras e formacións musicais que participan nelas."
https://www.g24.gal/-/-a-arqueoloxia-dos-palcos-de-musica-con-xurxo-ayan
Congratulations to Xurxo Ayán and Sara Albuquerque, coordinators of two of the six new exploratory projects funded by #IN2PAST Associated Laboratory.
Their teams will be exploring the #archaeology of the Spanish refugee camps in Souther Portugal and the use of Ward’s box as a pedagogical object in the dissemination of the #HistoryOfScience, respectively.
Find out more: https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/in2past-funds-six-exploratory-projects/
Karpin Astoreka captured a video summary of the first phase of the project #RAILWAY1936, coordinated by Xurxo Ayán.
It shows the difficulty of the search for António Ribeiro's grave site in the context of a landscape highly modified by the Anthropocene, with intensive planting of pine forests, very different from the landscape of 1936.
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The #RAILWAY1936 project began today. Directed by archaeologist Xurxo Ayán, has as its main objective the location of the grave and exhumation of railway worker António Ribeiro, assassinated by the Franco regime in 1936 in Castrelo do Val (Galicia).
Who was António Ribeiro? 
https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/xurxo-ayan-project-antonio-ribeiro/
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#histodons #Archaeodons #Archaeology #ContemporaryArchaeology #SpanishCivilWar #Galicia #Memory #Heritage #Francoism
As well as studying the really old stuff, archaeologist can learn about how we live now, looking critically at issues ranging from #StreetArt to #Energy systems to #plasticpollution & #garbage
Image: at #nuartaberdeen 2019 of mural by #Herakut created in 2017 on #Aberdeen Indoor Market, which opened in 1974 but both torn down in 2022
How carbon reliant economies, based on oil industry, energy transition brought into sharp focus here.
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https://christimac.photography/bodyofwork/ha7qotjfuk602n1rn1ldlruvn8xs1g-ed3h3
This is from my very long term project on the Forth Bridges in Central Scotland, called simply “The Bridges”, which was eventually ‘completed” in 2014. quote marks because a few years later a 3rd bridge was built, and I’m only just coming round to the idea that I should examine the project again.
I used to call this #documentaryphotography but doing my MA, I now consider it a form of #ContemporaryArchaeology
