This special section, coordinated by Thomas Hylland Eriksen and Elisabeth Schober, should
not be seen as residual in the discipline, but treating matters of substantive importance such …

Marine plastic pollution is a global environmental concern. With reference to approaches in
contemporary archaeology, object biographies and psychology, this article presents the …

Antiquity—the past—has been fundamental to archaeology from the very beginnings of the
discipline, and it remains the central concept around which archaeological research is …

The paper explores the diverse forms of renaturing and reinscription which arise from the
materiality of industrial decline and the desire to make space for nature in new peri-urban …

Abstract In North Bihar, mud ensures prosperity for farmers, but also materially signals the
lower status from which their wives try to raise the family, even at the cost of risking their own …

This paper makes a case for Buried Culture—humanly modified packages of sediments and
artifacts. Specifically, it argues that Buried Culture amounts to an a-social, literally …

Luník IX in Košice over the years has become a symbol of the 'impossibility'of Roma
integration in Slovakia. For the outside world it is an example of failed inclusion policies, yet …

ABSTRACT Tehran's Archaeology of Garbage project was conducted in 2017–2018 and
with the initial aim of monitoring the impacts of currency devaluation on poor people. In …

Roman-Period and Byzantine Nazareth and its Hinterland presents a new social and
economic interpretation of Roman-period and Byzantine Nazareth and its hinterland as a …

Plastics, as supermodern artefacts of the Anthropocene, form a significant part of waste
landscapes. But they also pollute landscapes-cultural and natural, marine and terrestrial …