An interdisciplinary series that engages our on-going, yet ever-changing, fascination with the archaeological, Archaeological Orientations investigates the myriad ways material pasts are entangled with communities, animals, ecologies and technologies, past, present or future. From urgent contemporary concerns, including politics, violence, sustainability, ecology, and technology, to long-standing topics of interest, including time, space, materiality, memory and agency, Archaeological Orientations promotes bold thinking and the taking of risks in pressing trans-disciplinary matters of concern.
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By Assaf Nativ, Gavin Lucas
July 28, 2025
Shadow Archaeologies explores the modes of knowledge production which operate where the light of mainstream, historically oriented archaeology, does not reach. It exposes the field’s underbelly and dwells on issues that standard practice ignores or glosses over, questioning what archaeology and the...
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By Gavin Lucas, Shannon Lee Dawdy
April 30, 2025
Undoing Things explores all the ways in which things become undone, be they objects, bodies, places, or worlds. Although archaeologists have long attended to the productive dimensions of materiality and material culture as a coherent phenomenon – making objects, building things, constructing ...
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By Torgeir Rinke Bangstad, Þóra Pétursdóttir
August 24, 2021
Heritage Ecologies presents an ecological understanding of heritage that furthers a concern for how its making and unmaking always involves a wide range of human and other-than-human actors. Recognizing the entangled nature-cultures of heritage is essential in the Anthropocene era, ...
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By Martin Porr, Jacqueline Matthews
December 18, 2019
Interrogating Human Origins encourages new critical engagements with the study of human origins, broadening the range of approaches to bring in postcolonial theories, and begin to explore the decolonisation of this complex topic. The collection of chapters presented in this volume creates spaces ...
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By Suzanne Pilaar Birch
February 20, 2018
Multispecies Archaeology explores the issue of ecological and cultural novelty in the archaeological record from a multispecies perspective. Human exceptionalism and our place in nature have long been topics of academic consideration and archaeology has been synonymous with an axclusively human ...
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By Alfredo González-Ruibal
November 11, 2016
Archaeology has been an important source of metaphors for some of the key intellectuals of the 20th century: Sigmund Freud, Walter Benjamin, Alois Riegl and Michel Foucault, amongst many others. However, this power has also turned against archaeology, because the discipline has been dealt with ...
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By Mikkel Bille, Tim Flohr Sorensen
March 01, 2016
Elements of Architecture explores new ways of engaging architecture in archaeology. It conceives of architecture both as the physical evidence of past societies and as existing beyond the physical environment, considering how people in the past have not just dwelled in buildings but have existed ...
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By Bjørnar Olsen, Þóra Pétursdóttir
April 22, 2014
Since the nineteenth century, mass-production, consumerism and cycles of material replacement have accelerated; increasingly larger amounts of things are increasingly victimized rapidly and made redundant. At the same time, processes of destruction have immensely intensified, although largely ...