Archaeological Imprints

We Follow Lines And Trace Them

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ID13014368
AuthorsOscar Aldred (0000-0001-5207-7905, University of Cambridge, corresponding author), Gísli Pálsson (0000-0003-3545-0522, Umeå University)
Year2018
Volume4
Issue2
Pages163-176
Publication date2018-02-19
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Contemporary Archaeology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2051-3429 • E-ISSN: 2051-3437
PublisherEquinox Publishing (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1558/jca.32338
OpenAlexW2793768584
LanguageEN
Citations received1

In this visual essay we discuss the role of creative practices in archaeology by examining the relationships between linotype printing and archaeological practices. We suggest that the two follow a shared trajectory: the way in which we interpret, follows and traces several kinds of interfaces. Our imprinted archaeology explores the implications of different acts of marking, cutting, and revealing the uncanny. Thus, we bring attention to the exchanges between us, as collaborators, but perhaps more significantly, the confluences between archaeology and creative practices by focusing on the similarities between the conceptual underpinnings of the archaeological process, such as excavation, though not exclusively, and the creative process of image-making, using linotype printing. We suggest that printing helps to bring attention to the idea that while archaeological excavation is an act of destruction, it is also a creative endeavour, full of possibilities as we follow and trace the lines that are created

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Artifact (error · Excavation · Linguistics · Process (computing · Uncanny · Visual arts · 3D Surveying and Cultural Heritage · Computer Science · History · Image Processing and 3D Reconstruction · Philosophy · Visual Culture and Art Theory · Artificial Intelligence

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