The Future of Recording the Past: Web Archives as a Resource for Public Archaeology

Lorna-Jane Richardson

doi:10.1558/jca.v2i1.28284

From present to future. An academic perspective of Public Archaeology in Spain

AP Online Journal in Public Archaeology ◽

10.23914/ap.v10i0.296 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 10 ◽

pp. 65

Author(s):

Alicia Castillo Mena

Keyword(s):

Public Archaeology ◽

The Past ◽

The Future ◽

High Level

Ten years seems little time to assess the future of such a relatively young topic as Public Archaeology (PA) is, in special in Spain and in the academic arena. I divide my answer in two classic parts: present and future. By understanding the present (based on the past) we can try to guess (more or less) the future… Even if we think in the context of a pandemic, predicting the future of anything becomes really uncertain and reckless. If I may write, there is a high level of uncertainty and luck in getting it right.

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Millennial archaeology. Locating the discipline in the age of insecurity

Archaeological Dialogues ◽

10.1017/s1380203809990055 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 16 (2) ◽

pp. 131-142 ◽

Cited By ~ 54

Author(s):

Shannon Lee Dawdy

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Public Archaeology ◽

Archaeological Research ◽

Present Climate ◽

The Past ◽

Discussion Article ◽

The Future

AbstractThis discussion article responds to a forum question posed by the editors of Archaeological dialogues: ‘is archaeology useful?’ My response initially moves backward from the question, considering whether archaeology ought to be useful, how it has been useful in the past, and the millennial overtones of the question in our present climate of crisis. I critique the primary way in which archaeology attempts to be useful, as a dowsing rod for heritage through ‘public archaeology’. While European archaeology has long been aware of the dangers of nationalism, in the Americas this danger is cloaked by a focus on indigenous and minority histories. I then move forward through the question and urge colleagues to embrace an archaeological agenda geared towards the future rather than the past. My hope is that transatlantic dialogue will be politically useful in reorienting archaeological research towards supranational problems such as climate change, hunger and population stress.

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The past is now – an interview with Anders Högberg

European Journal of Archaeology ◽

10.1177/1461957108101238 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

pp. 7-22

Author(s):

Cornelius Holtorf

Keyword(s):

Material Culture ◽

Teaching And Learning ◽

Public Archaeology ◽

Equal Weight ◽

The Past ◽

The Future

Anders Högberg is a Swedish archaeologist whose research offers an original perspective on prehistoric flint technology but he has also been directing some innovative projects in archaeological teaching and learning. In this interview I am exploring some of the ideas that have been guiding his work in both realms. Although part of the interview is about work conducted in the past, equal weight is given to new opportunities and developments that affect the future of archaeology. Anders Högberg's ideas cannot be said to be typical or representative for any larger community, but he is operating in very specific historic circumstances that are shared to a greater or lesser extent by many other archaeologists living and working today. This interview documents the particular views on material culture, public archaeology, and the field of archaeology more generally that were held by one European archaeologist in 2008.

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Toward a Decolonial and Denationalized Public Archaeology

AP Online Journal in Public Archaeology ◽

10.23914/ap.v10i0.301 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 10 ◽

pp. 97

Author(s):

Rafael Greenberg

Keyword(s):

Public Archaeology ◽

The Past ◽

The Future

It has been more than a decade since I completed my own participation in a public archaeology project at Rogem Gannim, in West Jerusalem (Natasha Dudinski, “The Past on our Doorstep,” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef3fPcrB11c); since then, in the role of an archaeological activist and advocate, I have observed the progress of public archaeology in Israel and abroad and participated in the local and global dialogue (Clark and Horning 2019), without initiating new fieldwork. This brief note, though looking toward the future as requested by the editors, is therefore retrospective in origin, rather than being a missive from the front lines.

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