Bruno Latour and Eduardo Viveiros de Castro provided the initial impetus for explicitly
ontological research in archaeology. Their impact on archaeologists, however, has been …

This review provides a road map through current trends and issues in archaeological
studies of memory. Many scholars continue to draw on Halbwachs for collective memory …

Change and Archaeology explores how archaeologists have historically described,
interpreted, and explained change, and argues that change has been under-theorised. The …

As we pass into an age of the Anthropocene, archaeologists, as scholars of other
disciplines, are driven to consider how this physical and ideological climate change affects …

This piece aims to serve both as a commentary on papers in this special collection as well
as a more general observation of recent developments within the emerging interdisciplinary …

How do archaeologists make knowledge? Debates in the latter half of the twentieth century
revolved around broad, abstract philosophies and theories such as positivism and …

Archaeologists have long been interested in contemporary material culture, but only recently
has a dedicated subfield of archaeology of the contemporary world begun to emerge …

Making Time grapples with a range of issues that have crystallized in the wake of 15 years of
discussion on time in archaeology, since the author's seminal volume The Archaeology of …

Large-scale disasters mobilize heritage professionals to a narrative of heritage-at-risk and a
standardized set of processes to counter that risk. Trinidad Rico's critical ethnography …

This article traces the genealogy of the subfield that has become known as the “archaeology
of the contemporary past” and argues for its more thorough integration with an expanded …