Melanie Sherratt (University of Durham, UK)

Arthur Anderson (University of Durham, UK)

This paper will explore the nature of authority and meaning in images used in archaeological publication. Over the past several hundred years, visual authority (which gives the image mean-ing) has come from many different sources: the personality of the creator of the image, the scien-tific or pseudo-scientific process used in its creation or the codes of expression used to make the image academically acceptable. Where does visual authority lie today, and can we expand our range of expressive visual options by acknowledging and questioning this?

Troels Myrup Kristensen (University of Aarhus, Denmark)