Reflections on posthuman ethics. Grievability and the more-than-human worlds of Iron and Viking Age Scandinavia

MH Eriksen, K Kay - Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 2022 - cambridge.org
Posthuman feminism grows out of interdisciplinary discourse exploring relational
metaphysics. It is set apart from other approaches in the broader ontological turn by its …

Archaeology and the new metaphysical dogmas: comments on ontologies and reality

A Ribeiro - Forum Kritische Archäologie, 2019 - refubium.fu-berlin.de
One of the most popular approaches in archaeological theory today is the New Materialisms.
Unlike previous trends, such as processual and postprocessual archaeology, which …

When defense is not enough: on things, archaeological theory, and the politics of misrepresentation

BJ Olsen, C Witmore - 2021 - munin.uit.no
This article responds to a growing tide of critique targeting select new materialist and object-
oriented approaches in archaeology. Here we take a stand against this critical discourse not …

New digs: Networks, assemblages, and the dissolution of binary categories in anthropological archaeology

S Kosiba - American Anthropologist, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Anthropological archaeology has long been a process of categorization. The history of the
subdiscipline could be rendered in terms of an ongoing project to create, critique, and then …

The Triviality of the New Innovation and Impact in Archaeology and Beyond

TF Sørensen - Current Swedish Archaeology, 2018 - publicera.kb.se
What drives archaeology? Is it new empirical discoveries, new methods or new theory?
These factors combined are the fuel of the discipline, is the obvious answer. However …

Connecting posthumanist thinking with GIS practice: explorations of a prehistoric heathland landscape in Jutland, Denmark

M Haughton - Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 2024 - Springer
While developments in GIS technology and methodologies continue to add great value to
archaeological research, they have often fallen somewhat out of step with theoretical …

The Mandate for Speculation: Responding to Uncertainty in Archaeological Thinking

TF Sørensen, MM Marila, AS Beck - Cambridge Archaeological …, 2024 - cambridge.org
The aim of the article is to reframe speculation from being seen as synonymous with
unacademic conjecture, or as a means for questioning consensus and established …

The thing-in-itself. A reaction to current use of the term in archaeology

SV Nielsen - Archaeological Dialogues, 2019 - cambridge.org
Scholars writing within symmetrical archaeology, or speculative realism, have lately claimed
that archaeology should strive to grasp the thing-in-itself. This paper questions the rationale …

Weird relations: a prolegomenon to posthumanism and its archaeological manifestations

DK Kay - 2019 - repository.cam.ac.uk
Abstract 'Posthumanism'has become an increasingly visible term over the past decade or so,
both within the academy and more broadly. However, as it encompasses a great range of …

Pre-critical archaeology. Speculative realism and symmetrical archaeology

E Govier - Archaeological Dialogues, 2022 - cambridge.org
The rise of Symmetrical Archaeology has subtly recast archaeology as the study of things
and not the study of the past or past peoples. This new description of the archaeological …