{"id":58440,"date":"2016-04-27T11:00:27","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T16:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.olemiss.edu\/?p=58440"},"modified":"2016-04-27T15:58:10","modified_gmt":"2016-04-27T20:58:10","slug":"58440-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/58440-2\/","title":{"rendered":"UM Team Competes in Archaeological Ethics Bowl for First Time"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The UM Archaeology Ethics Bowl team is made up of juniors Alicia Dixon (left), Zachary Creel and Libby Tyson.<\/p><\/div>\n

OXFORD, Miss. \u2013 Earlier this month, three University of Mississippi students spent\u00a0the day putting themselves in the shoes of professional archaeologists, debating\u00a0issues of ownership, trespassing, reporting, stewardship, commercialization and sexual\u00a0harassment in Orlando, Florida.<\/p>\n

The students, all juniors in the university’s Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors\u00a0College, are the first Ole Miss team to compete in the Society for American\u00a0Archaeology’s annual Archaeological Ethics Bowl. The event pits teams from\u00a0universities across the country to discuss and debate various scenarios representing\u00a0ethical quandaries professional archaeologists may face in their work.<\/p>\n

“These dilemmas included real problems that archaeologists face when conducting\u00a0fieldwork, as well as issues relating to conservation and preservation of cultural\u00a0heritage,” said Hilary Becker, UM assistant professor of classics and adviser for the\u00a0team.<\/p>\n

The Ole Miss team \u2013 Alicia Dixon, Zachary Creel and Libby Tyson \u2013 decided to enter\u00a0the competition after taking Becker’s honors class in classics, “Archaeological Ethics:\u00a0Who Owns the Past,” where they argued cases from previous Archaeological Ethics\u00a0Bowls.<\/p>\n

“The most exciting part of competing was hearing different sides to the cases and\u00a0thinking about how we might think outside the box for next year,” said Dixon, a\u00a0classics and philosophy double major from Baldwyn. “We were also\u00a0very excited to meet the other teams, who we know put in time and effort learning\u00a0the cases, just like we did.”<\/p>\n

Dixon, Creel and Tyson worked since last summer to prepare for the competition,\u00a0meeting at least weekly since June. The team conducted their own research on the\u00a0legal and ethical implications of various archaeologist cases, in addition to debating\u00a0amongst themselves.<\/p>\n

“There’s something awesome about working really hard for an extended period of\u00a0time and then seeing that work pay off when a judge smiles because of a point your\u00a0team just made,” said Tyson, of Hazlehurst, who is majoring in classics\u00a0and English.<\/p>\n

Four teams competed in this year’s competition: UM, the University of Georgia, the University of Puerto Rico and California\u00a0State University at Los Angeles. The competition was conducted in three elimination rounds. First, UM\u00a0faced the University of Georgia, and the second round matched UCLA with the University of Puerto Rico. In the finals, Georgia\u00a0defeated the University of Puerto Rico.<\/p>\n

Despite\u00a0the UM team being all undergraduates, they competed against five graduate\u00a0anthropology students from the University of Georgia.<\/p>\n

Although they did not win the championship, which carries an American Institute of\u00a0Archaeology membership for each member of the winning team and a school trophy, the experience has\u00a0them already planning for next year’s event.<\/p>\n

“We competed well and learned a lot so that we will certainly be even more\u00a0competitive next year,” said Creel, a classics and art history major from New\u00a0Orleans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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