at the congresses, as generally in WAC transactions, are the official languages of UNESCO plus that of the host country.

Each congress tries to circulate papers ahead of time in order to devote available time in the sessions to discussion and to facilitate the publication of the selected proceedings. Under the title One World Archaeology, the twenty volumes from the first congress have inaugurated a “splendid series… [that] makes a great gesture in the direction of drawing the squabbling… sciences of mankind back together” (Fox 1993, 10). Five volumes from the second congress extend the series, and several have already appeared from the third with another increase in number from the fourth. Publishers’ advances and royalties help support the attendance of individuals from poorer countries at executive meetings and congresses, and in various ways (WAB 1989, 14, 1991b; Zimmerman 1993), the organization can periodically make volumes available free or at a discount for targeted recipients. There is also an active policy of issuing the volumes in paperback.

In addition to the main congresses, WAC has thus far sponsored, on its own behalf or cooperatively, two smaller intercongresses with a focus on a particular topic: one in Vermillion, South Dakota, in August 1989 on archaeological ethics and the treatment of the dead (WAB 1989, 1991a) and the second in Mombasa, Kenya, in January 1993 on the development of urbanism in East Africa in a global perspective.

The inauguration of a biannual newsletter (WAC NEWS news) in 1992 to keep members abreast of the activities of their organization has allowed the annual World Archaeological Bulletin, established in 1987, to concentrate on archaeological subjects of major WAC interest in a thematic format. The first thematic number, volume six (1992), reviews the questions of the collection, study, and display of human remains that are of concern to diverse communities throughout the world (Hubert 1988). WAC’s adoption of an ethical position in this matter, the Vermillion Accord on Human Remains (WAB 1989, 18; cf. Fforde 1991, 23), has had wide influence (Hubert 1991). WAC has also adopted a code of ethics mediating relationships between its members and indigenous peoples, which has proved equally influential (Fforde 1991, 21–23; cf. Matunga 1991, 52).

Jack Golson

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