Manual Setting

Eyes tired from new media, projections, backlit technologies and digitised images? Enter the world of raw, fresh, immediate sketchbooks, held in the hand, turned with the fingers. In Manual Setting visitors leaf through sketchbooks together with exhibitors: artists, scientists and writers. This enacts the viewing of a notebook as a hand-held, shared and performative activity. Who is revealed during this process of showing and being shown? An enquiry is made concerning intimacy; and the border between personal and private; as well as the provisionally sketched and the finished. Books can often only be exhibited in cases, boxes or frames one page at a time. Handling the sketchbook/notebook repairs the loss of human contact with these objects. There can be a reconciliation with the manual practice of showing to others, activating lively discussion between maker and audience. In the house/gallery setting, several people who keep notebooks, (or what they consider to be sketchbook material), will be situated around the building. These include Dino Alfier, Eleanor Bowen and Paul Ryan (who co-curated this project with Danielle Arnaud), as well as a changing list of invited guests. Saturday 5th February is �Archaeology Day� with guest exhibitors Simon Callery and Dr Helen Wickstead. See website for guests and themes on other days

Archaeology on your farm: gaining from history

Information for land managers and farming advisers within Cranborne Chase and West Wiltshire Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty

"Wild worship of a lost and buried past" : enchanted archaeologies and the cult of Kata, 1908–1924

Histories of archaeology traditionally traced the progress of the modern discipline as the triumph of secular disenchanted science over pre-modern, enchanted, world-views. In this article I complicate and qualify the themes of disenchantment and enchantment in archaeological histories, presenting an analysis of how both contributed to the development of scienti c theory and method in the earliest decades of the twentieth century. I examine the interlinked biographies of a group who created a joke religion called “The Cult of Kata”. The self-described “Kataric Circle” included notable archaeologists Harold Peake, O.G.S. Crawford and Richard Lowe Thompson, alongside classicists, musicians, writers and performing artists. The cult highlights the connections between archaeology, theories of performance and the performing arts – in particular theatre, music, folk dance and song. “Wild worship” was linked to the consolidation of collectivities facilitating a wide variety of scienti c and artistic projects whose objectives were all connected to dreams of a future utopia. The cult parodied archaeological ideas and methodologies, but also supported and expanded the development of eld survey, mapping and the interpretation of archaeological distribution maps. The history of the Cult of Kata shows how taking account of the unorthodox and the interdisciplinary, the humorous and the recreational, is important within generously framed approaches to histories of the archaeological imagination. The work of the Kataric Circle is not best understood as the relentless progress of disenchanted modern science. It suggests a more complicated picture in which dynamics of enchantment and disenchantment stimulate and discipline the imagination simultaneously. I conclude with a reexamination of the politics of an emphasis on playfulness and enchantment

TOM ARMSTRONG BOWES, HERNE BAY MUSEUM AND THE LOWER PALAEOLITHIC OF THE KENTISH STOUR

The Palaeolith collection of the antiquarian Dr Tom Armstrong Bowes was the founding component of Herne Bay's first museum and became one of the larger and more significant collections in the British Palaeolithic record. Its value to debates on the British Palaeolithic, however, has been limited by a stark lack of contextual data. Previously unstudied museum archives have now begun to unlock the lost provenance of this large collection so that it once again can contribute to long-standing regional questions on Acheulean typologies

Neofunctionalization of ciliary BBS proteins to nuclear roles is likely a frequent innovation across eukaryotes

The eukaryotic BBSome is a transport complex within cilia and assembled by chaperonin-like BBS proteins. Recent work indicates nuclear functions for BBS proteins in mammals, but it is unclear how common these are in extant proteins or when they evolved. We screened for BBS orthologues across a diverse set of eukaryotes, consolidated nuclear association via signal sequence predictions and permutation analysis, and validated nuclear localization in mammalian cells via fractionation and immunocytochemistry. BBS proteins are—with exceptions— conserved as a set in ciliated species. Predictions highlight five most likely nuclear proteins and suggest that nuclear roles evolved independently of nuclear access during mitosis. Nuclear localization was confirmed in human cells. These findings suggest that nuclear BBS functions are potentially not restricted tomammals, but may be a common frequently co-opted eukaryotic feature. Understanding the functional spectrum of BBS proteins will help elucidating their role in gene regulation, development, and disease