Theme:
1. Archaeologists and Archaeology Here and Now
Session format:
Regular session
Title:
Routed Archaeology III – Getting around
Content:
Following on the previous Routed Archaeology sessions organized at the last two EAA Annual Meetings in this session we continue to explore different aspects pertaining to the functioning and management of archaeological routes. This time our primary focus is placed on one of the essential features of all cultural routes – i.e. mobility, naturally, with the underlying rationale of promoting travel and stimulating people to move along the routes.
The topic itself is approached from a variety of angles. The first angle tackled by the session is how to make a route as a touristic product more visible among the many offers in the leisure market. Since the usefulness of the work invested in the management and organization of the network is ultimately measured by the response of the public/tourists, an indivisible question we wish to raise is that of the marketing of cultural routes.
Once the attention and the interest have been raised many questions concerning logistics of movement from one place to another within the route network emerge. Starting from individual travellers acting on the spur of the moment with preference for designing their own on-the-fly itineraries at one end of the scale, and ending with minutely organized general or bespoke tours for overseas groups on the other, well-organized routes are expected to entertain a plethora of options catering for different travelling tastes and habits.
This subject logically segues into that of the different modes of transport that can be employed on the route, among which we would specifically like to encourage contributions promoting alfresco travelling styles such as hiking, cycling, horseback riding, kayaking and other outdoor activities. Furthermore, as routes may widely differ in terms of scale, we invite contributions discussing local, regional, national and transnational networks with case studies detailing different responses to mobility.
Keywords:
archaeological routes, tourism, transport, cycling, hiking, Iron Age Danube Route
Session associated with MERC:
no
Session associated with CIfA:
no
Session associated with SAfA:
no
Session associated with CAA:
no
Session associated with DGUF:
no
Session associated with other:
Main organiser:
Marko Mele (Austria) 1
Co-organisers:
Szilvia Fábián (Hungary) 2
Sanjin Mihelić (Croatia) 3
Affiliations:
1. Universalmuseum Joanneum
2. Hungarian National Museum
3. Arheological Museum Zagreb
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