Archaeology team tastes sweet success

The Flinders University Archaeology department hosted an event last week to celebrate the launch of the 18-volume, 11,473-page new edition of Encyclopaedia of Global Archaeology – a mammoth publication for which Flinders’ Professor Claire Smith was editor-in-chief.

As the twice-elected President of the World Archaeological Congress (2003–2008 and 2008–2014), Professor Smith has been in a position to develop a close understanding of the strengths and limitations of archaeological theory and practice in different parts of the world.

She found that cutting-edge archaeological theory is being progressed by Spanish and Portuguese-speaking scholars in South America; that world-leading conservation techniques are developed in Japan and Italy; and that Russian and Arabic scholars have deep knowledge of their own cultural heritage, but their work is rarely published in English. This understanding became Professor Smith’s inspiration for an encyclopaedia that is truly global in content.

Full details of the second edition of this important publication can be found by clicking here.

Dr Ania Kotarba’s extraordinary archaeology celebration cake, complete with Lego “archaeologists”.

Flinders University Archaeology is also very proud of its inclusion into the Top 50 departments of archaeology in the world, rising to #46 in the QS ranking of Top Universities announced in March.

To make the combined celebration at last week’s gathering even sweeter, Archaeology lecturer Dr Ania Kotarba baked an extraordinary archaeology cake – complete with a Lego diorama of an archaeology dig – for Professor Smith and Archaeology colleagues to share.

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