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DOCUMENT Full-Text Koji Mizoguchi.

This resource is an application for the Conference Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. The World Archaeological Congress (WAC) is a non-governmental, not-for-profit organization whose members seek to promote interest in the past in all countries, to encourage the development of regionally-based histories and to foster international academic interaction. Its aims are based on the need to recognize the historical and social roles as well as the political context of archaeology, and the need...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Andrea Muehlebach.

This resource is an application for a Workshop Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Anthropologists know that capital deals in death: it ends cultures, exterminates peoples, kills ecologies, destroys worlds. But what interest might we take in capital's grotesque form of life: in the vitality of those processes and practices that come alive through the exuberant organization of death, or in the bizarre liveliness and animation that capital elicits from the world it destroys? This workshop...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Ariell Ahearn-Ligham.

This resource is an application for a Workshop Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. ‘The Dana Declaration 20 years on: making space for the voices of indigenous Mobile Peoples within Anthropology’ (Dana+20) aims to accomplish four related goals: 1) advance collaborative approaches to decolonial research practices; 2) critically reflect on lessons learned from 20 years of Dana advocacy; 3) identify areas for continued research and advocacy; and 4) outline steps to improve government and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kirsten Mink.

This resource is an application for a Workshop Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Bioarchaeology has the capacity to serve as a conduit for public engagement in reconstructing the past, particularly in connecting descendant communities, past peoples, and those who study them. However, criticisms of public engagement often arise when outreach efforts don’t effectively engage in capacity building with local communities or involve them in the reconstruction process. In Belize, this is...

DOCUMENT Full-Text María Becerra.

This resource is an application for a Workshop Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This workshop aims to address new research on the use, circulation, and provenance of copper in the pre-Columbian Southern Andes through a four-day meeting from August 25th to 28th, 2025, at the Museum of La Plata, Argentina. Mining and metallurgy have had significant impacts on the environment and social development in this region, yet many aspects remain little known. By bringing together local and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Philip Piper.

This resource is an application for a Conference Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. The aim of the 22nd Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association (IPPA) Congress to be held between 6th – 12th November 2022 is to bring together local Indo-Pacific (extending from India in the west to the Pacific Islands in the east) and other, mainly ‘Western’, scholars to present papers and hold discussions on diverse themes within the framework of Indo-Pacific archaeology. As per IPPA’s normal format, a number...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Ben Marwick.

This resource is an application for the Workshop Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. The aim of the workshop is to provide a forum for discussion among experts in stone artefact archaeology for the Palaeolithic period in East and Southeast Asia in order harmonize our methods and interpretive frameworks. Currently, scholars from several different countries and academic backgrounds work on this subject. The high diversity of current approaches impedes progress on important research questions...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Aaron Wright.

This resource is an application for a Workshop Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. The Sonoran Desert has been the traditional homeland of many Indigenous communities since time immemorial. Despite five centuries of settler colonialism, these communities—Cochimí, Cucapá, Kiliwa,Kumeyaay, Kwatsáan, O’Odham, Opata, Paipai, Piipaash, and Yoeme—persevere, in part because this desert embodies the material, emotional, and spiritual legacies of their ancestors. This seminar brings together...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Ana Belén Galán López.

This resource is an application for a Conference Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. The Virtual Conference for Women Archaeologists and Paleontologists (VCWAP) is a free annual international interdisciplinary event that unites women Early Career Researchers (ECR) in these disciplines. Both Archaeology and Paleontology share methodologies and paradigms and contribute to the understanding of past species and the environments in which they lived and evolved. Since its first edition in 2021,...