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An Archaeology of Possibilities

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3595565
AutoresCatherine J Frieman (0000-0002-9030-4483, Australian National University, autor correspondente)
Ano2024
Volume98
Fascículo402
Páginas1679-1688
Data de publicação2024-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAntiquity (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0003-598X • E-ISSN: 1745-1744
EditoraAntiquity Publications (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.15184/aqy.2024.99
OpenAlexW4405173530
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas13

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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