Abstract
I attempt to characterize the shared foundations of archaeology, in light of the significant fragmentation of the discipline, the expansion of its chronological reach from deep antiquity to the present and of its scale and resolution from micro to macro, and the urgent call for its decolonization. I briefly explore the intersections of archaeological practice with the archaeosphere, temporality, memory, and archive, and locate the inflection point of personal values in the interface between archaeological epistemology—how archaeologists see and interpret the world—and praxis—how they go about creating the archaeological record.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | “And in Length of Days Understanding” (Job 12:12) |
Subtitle of host publication | Essays on Archaeology in the Eastern Mediterranean and Beyond in Honor of Thomas E. Levy |
Editors | Erez Ben-Yosef, Ian W. N. Jones |
Place of Publication | Cham |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 1777-1788 |
Number of pages | 12 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9783031273308 |
ISBN (Print) | 9783031273322, 9783031273292 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2023 |
Publication series
Name | Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology |
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Volume | 2023 |
ISSN (Print) | 1568-2722 |
Keywords
- Archaeological epistemology
- Forgetting
- Memory
- Temporality
- Archaeosphere
- Archive