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This volume seeks to examine how the notion of memory can significantly structure the research efforts in the empirical field of archaeology. The archaeological approaches enable the diversity of mnemonic systems and their significance in past contexts to be explored and to examine what can be put under the heading 'past in the past'. The twelve substantial contributions by distinguished contributors cover a diverse set of regional case studies and focus on a range of prehistoric and classical case studies in the Eurasian regional contexts as well as on predicaments of memory in examples of the archaeologies of 'contemporary past'.
Archaeology and Memory shows the importance of memory as a unifying term for thinking about past contexts and the way in which people thought about their own pasts, as well as wider theoretical reflections on materiality and archaeological methodologies.
Archaeology and Memory shows the importance of memory as a unifying term for thinking about past contexts and the way in which people thought about their own pasts, as well as wider theoretical reflections on materiality and archaeological methodologies.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: memory, archaeology and the historical condition (Dušan Boric)
2. The diversity and duration of memory (Alasdair Whittle)
3. Happy forgetting? Remembering and dismembering dead bodies at Vlasac (Dušan Boric)
4. Forgetting and remembering the digital experience and digital data (Ruth Tringham)
5. Layers of meaning: concealment, containment, memory and secrecy in the British Early Bronze Age (Andy Jones)
6. Constructing the warrior: death, memory and the art of warfare (Bryan Hanks)
7. Memory and microhistory of a city: domestic contexts in Roman Amheida, Egypt (Anna Boozer)
8. The de-scription of time on the Arch of Constantine (Adam Gutteridge)
9. Archaeology and memory on the Western front (Paola Filippucci)
10. Terra incognita: the material world in international criminal courts (Lindsay Weiss)
11. YugoMuseum: memory, nostalgia, irony (Mrdjan Bajic)
12. Memory, melancholy and materiality (Victor Buchli)
2. The diversity and duration of memory (Alasdair Whittle)
3. Happy forgetting? Remembering and dismembering dead bodies at Vlasac (Dušan Boric)
4. Forgetting and remembering the digital experience and digital data (Ruth Tringham)
5. Layers of meaning: concealment, containment, memory and secrecy in the British Early Bronze Age (Andy Jones)
6. Constructing the warrior: death, memory and the art of warfare (Bryan Hanks)
7. Memory and microhistory of a city: domestic contexts in Roman Amheida, Egypt (Anna Boozer)
8. The de-scription of time on the Arch of Constantine (Adam Gutteridge)
9. Archaeology and memory on the Western front (Paola Filippucci)
10. Terra incognita: the material world in international criminal courts (Lindsay Weiss)
11. YugoMuseum: memory, nostalgia, irony (Mrdjan Bajic)
12. Memory, melancholy and materiality (Victor Buchli)