TAG Conference
Introduction
The Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG) was founded as a national body in 1979 with the aim of promoting debate and discussion of issues in theoretical archaeology. Its principal activity is the promotion of an annual conference, traditionally held in December and organised so as to be accessible at low cost to research students and others.
TAG is managed and steered by a National Committee that meets annually and comprises a representative from each of the university departments that have hosted a TAG Conference. Convening and organizing National Committee meetings, and administering TAG finances, is the duty of the TAG Trustees who are:
- Colin Renfrew
- Timothy Darvill
- Andrew Fleming (1979 - 2001)
TAG Meetings and Conferences
| Annual Conferences | |
| 2011 | Birmingham (14-16 December) Website: http://centraltag.wordpress.com/ |
| Nordic TAG 2011 | Kalmar, Sweden (26-29 April) Website: http://lnu.se/about-lnu/conferences/11th-nordic-tag-multidisciplinary-archaeology?l=en |
| 2010 | Bristol (17-19 December) Website: http://www.bristol.ac.uk/archanth/tag/index.html |
| TAG-Brown 2010 | Brown University (30 April - 2 May) Website: http://proteus.brown.edu/tag2010/Home |
| 2009 | Durham (17-19 December) Website: http://www.dur.ac.uk/tag.2009/ Abstracts: Abstracts (pdf file) Handbook: Handbook (pdf file) |
| Nordic TAG 2009 | Trondheim, Norway (26-29 May) Website: http://www.ntnu.no/arv/konferanser/NTAG2009/ |
| TAG-Stanford 2009 | Stanford, Palo Alto CA (1-3 May) |
| 2008 | Southampton (15-17 December) |
| TAG-NYC 2008 | New York (23-25 May) Website: www.columbia.edu/cu/archaeology/conference/tag/ |
| 2007 | York (14-16 December) Website: www.tag07.york.googlepages.com/home |
| 2006 | Exeter (15-18 December) |
| 2005 | Sheffield (19-21 December) Website: www.shef.ac.uk/archaeology/tag2005 |
| 2004 | Glasgow Tartan TAG (17-19 December) |
| 2003 | Lampeter (17-19 December) |
| 2002 | Manchester (21-23 December) |
| 2001 | Dublin: TAG in Ireland (13-15 December) |
| 2000 | Oxford (18-20 December) |
| 1999 | Cardiff (14-17 December) |
| 1998 | Birmingham (19-21 December) |
| 1997 | Bournemouth (16-18 December) Website: http://csweb.bmth.ac.uk/tag97/index.htm |
| 1996 | Liverpool (16-18 December) |
| 1995 | Reading (18-21 December) |
| 1994 | Bradford (14-16 December) Website: www.brad.ac.uk/acad/archsci/depart/conferen/tag_94/tagpage.html |
| 1993 | Durham (13-16 December) |
| 1992 | Southampton: euro-TAG (14-16 December) |
| 1991 | Leicester |
| 1990 | Lampeter (17-20 December) |
| 1989 | Newcastle upon Tyne (18-20 December) |
| 1988 | Sheffield (13-15 December) |
| 1987 | Bradford (15-17 December) |
| 1986 | University College London (15-17 December) |
| 1985 | Glasgow |
| 1984 | Cambridge (14-16 December) |
| 1983 | Cardiff (12-14 December) |
| 1982 | Durham (13-15 December) |
| 1981 | Reading (14-16 December) |
| 1980 | Southampton (14-16 December) |
| 1979 | Sheffield (17-19 December) |
| Annual Meetings | |
| 1978 | Theoretical Approaches in Archaeology: Sheffield |
| 1977 | Theoretical Archaeology Group: Southampton (9-11 December) |
Comments, reviews and retrospects
- BINTLIFF, J. 1991. Post-modernism, rhetoric and scholasticism at TAG: the current state of British Archaeological Theory. Antiquity 65: 274-8.
- BUTCHER, K. & B. SILLAR. 1994. The fifteenth annual conference of the Theoretical Archaeology Group. Durham. Papers from the Institute of Archaeology 5: 128-31.
- CHIPPINDALE, C. 1990. Theoretical Archaeology Group: 11th Conference. Current Anthropology 31: 463-6.
- DODS, R. 1995. Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG): Sixteenth annual conference, University of Bradford. Papers from the Institute of Archaeology 5: 92-4.
- FLEMING, A. & M. JOHNSON. 1990. The Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG): origins, retrospect, prospect. Antiquity 64: 303-7.
- GAYDARSKA, B. 2009. A brief history of TAG. Antiquity 83: 1152-62.
- IGUAZ, G. 1993. Euro-TAG. The Theoretical Archaeology Group conference. Southampton. Papers from the Institute of Archaeology 4: 105-6.
- HOLTORF, C. 1997. TAG — die Buchreihe zur Tagung. [A review essay about the first five volumes of the Routledge TAG book series] Archäologische Informationen 20(1): 160-9.
- HOLTORF, C. 2001. The 21st Theoretical Archaeology Group Conference, Cardiff, 14-17 December 1999. European Journal of Archaeology 4: 153-5.
- MERRIMAN, N. 1984. TAG 84. Antiquity 58: 215.
- PADDAYYA, K. 1993. A report on the Theoretical Archaeology Group (EuroTAG) conference, University of Southampton, 14-16 December 1992. Man and Environment 18: 151-4.
- THOMAS, J. & C. TILLEY. 1992. TAG and "post-modernism": a reply to John Bintliff. Antiquity 66: 106-14.
- WARMAN, S., L. GIBBONS & L. PRESTON. 1997. TAG conference, Liverpool, 16-18 December, 1996. Papers from the Institute of Archaeology 8: 80-6.
Publications arising from TAG Meetings
- GAYDARSKA, B. 2009. A brief history of TAG. Antiquity 83: 1152–1162.
- HOLTORF, C. & A. PICCINI (ed.). 2009. Contemporary archaeologies: excavating now. Frankfurt/M.: Peter Lang.
- MATHERS, C., T. DARVILL & B. LITTLE (ed.). 2005. Heritage of value, archaeology of renown. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.
- HOFMANN, D., J. MILLS & A. COCHRANE (ed.). 2005. Elements of being: mentalities, identities and movements. Twelve papers stemming from a TAG session at Lampeter 2003 (BAR – S1437). Oxford: Archaeopress. www.archaeopress.com
- HOLTORF, C. & A. GAZIN-SCHWARTZ (ed.). 1999. Archaeology and folklore. London & New York: Routledge.
- DÍAZ-ANDREU, M. & S. KEAY (ed.). 1997. The archaeology of Iberia. TAG Series. London: Routledge.
- MOLYNEAUX, B.L. (ed.). 1997. The cultural life of images. TAG Series. London: Routledge.
- NASH, G. (ed.) 1997. Semiotics of landscape: archaeology of mind (Papers from a session held at 1994 TAG Conference, BAR – S661). Oxford: Archaeopress. www.archaeopress.com
- GRAVES-BROWN, P., S. JONES & C.S. GAMBLE (ed.). 1996. Cultural identity and archaeology: the construction of European communities. TAG Series. London: Routledge.
- COOPER, M., A. FIRTH, J. CARMAN & D. WHEATLEY (ed.). 1995. Managing archaeology. TAG Series. London: Routledge.
- SHENNAN, S. & J. STEELE (ed.). 1995. The archaeology of human ancestry. TAG Series. London: Routledge.
- SPENCER, N. (ed). 1995. Time, tradition and society in Greek archaeology. TAG Series. London: Routledge.
- UCKO, P.J. (ed.). 1995. Theory in archaeology. A World Perspective. TAG Series. London: Routledge.
- PINSKY, V. & A. WYLIE (ed.). 1989. Critical traditions in contemporary archaeology. New Directions in Archaeology Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- RENFREW, C., M.J. ROWLANDS & B.A. SEAGRAVES (ed.). 1982. Theory and explanation in archaeology. The Southampton Conference. London and New York: Academic Press.
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