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An Archaeology of Possibilities

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3595565
AutoresCatherine J Frieman (0000-0002-9030-4483, Australian National University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2024
Volumen98
Número402
Páginas1679-1688
Fecha de publicación2024-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAntiquity (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0003-598X • E-ISSN: 1745-1744
EditorialAntiquity Publications (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.15184/aqy.2024.99
OpenAlexW4405173530
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas13

The fragmentation of the archaeological record presents methodological challenges: as researchers analyse and construct models, they do not (and in most cases cannot and will not) know what is missing. Here, the author argues that these gaps are one of the field's greatest strengths; they force practitioners to be reflective in their understanding of, and approach to, studying the material traces of past people's lives and to make space for ways of being foreign to present reality. The uncertainty of a past in ruins is a place of possibility that empowers us all to imagine and to work towards a better future

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