Preservation of natural and cultural heritage is often said to be something that is done for the
future, or on behalf of future generations, but the precise relationship of such practices to the …

Archaeologists have long been interested in contemporary material culture, but only recently
has a dedicated subfield of archaeology of the contemporary world begun to emerge …

This article reviews recent literature on the political ecologies of conservation and
environmental change mitigation, highlighting the biopolitical stakes of many writings in this …

An Archaeology of the Contemporary Era approaches the contemporary age, between the
late nineteenth and twenty-first centuries, as an archaeological period defined by specific …

Roadblock Politics analyses the most fastidious, but also most central node of Central
Africa's contemporary war economic complex through an in-depth account of the everyday …

This article traces the genealogy of the subfield that has become known as the “archaeology
of the contemporary past” and argues for its more thorough integration with an expanded …

In this article, we would like to share some thoughts related to the values and principles
implemented by archaeologists when bringing 'the other'into focus. We situate our …

Heritage Futures is a four-year collaborative international research programme (2015–2019)
funded by a UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)'Care for the Future'Theme …

ABSTRACT In 2016 Olivier Gosselain published a paper in Archaeological Dialogues
suggesting that ethnoarchaeology should “go to hell”. His provocation misrepresents the …

Contemporary ethnoarchaeology has come a long way from material correlates and
'fleshing out the past'. This paper re-introduces ethnoarchaeology and opens a debate on its …