Archaeology Outside the Box

Hans Barnard

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ISBN: 978-1-950446-29-2

Publication Date: May 1, 2023

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Archaeology Outside the Box is an examination of archaeology from some surprising and unexpected points of view by anthropologists, archaeologists, architects, and artists, including subjects as up to the minute as the Covid-19 pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement, homelessness, and migration.

The authors strive to present archaeology “outside the box” in which it is usually defined and perceived, by reflecting on archaeological remains in novel ways and using research methods and theory to address contemporary issues. In keeping with the order in which archaeological excavations are conducted, where layers are unearthed in reverse from top to bottom, the chapters are presented similarly in reverse.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Beyond Archaeology: Disarticulation and Its Consequences. Doug Bailey

Chapter 2: A Second Exercise in Autovocality: The Archaeology of My Living. Hans Barnard 

Chapter 3: A First Exercise in Autovocality: The Archaeology of My Study. Hans Barnard

Chapter 4: All Objects Have Been Contemporary: An Archaeology of Us. Enrico Ferraris

Chapter 5: Abandoned Places and No Man’s Land. Henk van Rensbergen 

Chapter 6: Portraits of Ancient Linen. Gail Rothschild

Chapter 7: The Wall that Gives/El muro que da: Trash in a Box. Maite Zubiaurre and Filomena Cruz

Part I: Humans and Objects

Chapter 8: Archaeogaming Is X. John Aycock and Katie Biittner

Chapter 9: A Loss of an Absence. Reinhard Bernbeck

Chapter 10: The Bakken Hundreds. William Caraher and Bret Weber

Chapter 11: Stories that Change Things: Reflections on the Materiality of Living Memory. Bonnie J. Clark and Ian Kuijt

Chapter 12: War Near At Home: An Archaeology of Conflict. Alfredo González-Ruibal

Chapter 13: Archaeology in a Vacuum: Obstacles to and Solutions for Developing a Real Space Archaeology. Alice Gorman and Justin Walsh

Chapter 14: Litterscapes in the Anthropocene: An Archaeology of Discarded Cigarettes. Anthony P. Graesch and Timothy Hartshorn

Chapter 15: Kitchen Detritus in Modern Archaeology. La Vergne Lehmann

Chapter 16: Chokehold on Freedom: Archaeology, Incarceration, and the Ideology of Whiteness. Barra O’Donnabhain

Chapter 17: Radical Stratigraphy: Excavating a Century of Los Angeles Graffiti. Susan A. Phillips

Chapter 18: On AIR: An Archaeological Riff on Montserrat’s World-Famous 1980s Recording Studio. Krysta Ryzewski and John F. Cherry

Chapter 19: Hostile Terrain 94: Using an Archaeological Sensibility to Raise Awareness about Migrant Death along the U.S.–Mexico Border. Nicole Smith, Gabriel Canter, Austin E. Shipman, Cameron Gokee, Haeden Stewart, and Jason De León

Chapter 20: Forgotten Products of Labor: A Ritual of Many Lives. Ruth Tringham and Annie Danis

Chapter 21: Using Archaeology to Understand Homelessness. Larry J. Zimmerman

Part II: The Archaeology of Living Memory

Chapter 22: The Museum Hotel Antakya: Against the Collar for Ten Tough Years. Emre Arolat

Chapter 23: What Remains of Paquius Proculus: Video Game Bodies in Virtual Pompeii. David Fredrick, Rhodora G. Vennarucci, and William Loder

Chapter 24: Stuff. Jerzy Gawronski

Chapter 25: Archaeology and Contemporary Capitalism. Peter G. Gould

Chapter 26: Rumors of War and Warrior Realities in the Peruvian Andes. Danielle Kurin, Valda Black, Beatriz Lizarraga, and Ivanna Robledo

Chapter 27: Psychology from the Bronze Age: Faces, Emotions, and Personalities at Thera. Torill Christine Lindstrøm 

Chapter 28: What Did It Feel Like? How Sensory Archaeology is Changing the Way We Understand the Past and Present. Robin Skeates

Chapter 29: Building and Burning Stone Age Houses. Annelou van Gijn

Part III: A New Perspective on Archaeology

Chapter 30: The Box Project and Outside-the-Box Archaeology. Willeke Wendrich

Chapter 31: Archaeology Outside the Box: An Introduction. Hans Barnard

Archaeology Outside the Box