Talk:World Archaeological Congress

A note on the founding

A note on the founding: The delegates who were excluded included at least one outspoken critic of apartheid, P. Tobias, described in Wikipedia as "an activist for the eradication of apartheid . . . [who] gave numerous anti-apartheid speeches at protest rallies and also to academic audiences." Kdammers (talk) 20:40, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

There is also some misleading wording in the paragraph on the history of WAC. One obviously can have different views on the 1986 Southampton congress controversy, but stating that the "11th meeting of the International Union for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences was banned from meeting in Southampton" is factually incorrect. The actual chain of events is decribed further on in the same paragraph. The organizing committee for the Southampton congress resolved to ban South African and Namibian scholars from attending, and as a consequence the International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences withdrew its endorsement of the congress, which therefore could no longer be held as the 11th World Congress of the International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences. Those facts are undisputed, but there was never any ban of the International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences meeting in Southampton. Wikimoxx (talk) 15:39, 2 November 2024 (UTC)

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