Clashes of Time. The Contemporary Past as a Challenge for Archaeology

Par : Jean-Marie Blaising, Jean-Pierre Legendre, Jan Driessen, Laurent Olivier
    • Nombre de pages273
    • PrésentationBroché
    • FormatGrand Format
    • Poids0.444 kg
    • Dimensions16,0 cm × 24,0 cm × 1,5 cm
    • ISBN978-2-87558-625-4
    • EAN9782875586254
    • Date de parution01/12/2017
    • CollectionGRAAL
    • ÉditeurPresses universitaires Louvain

    Résumé

    The divide that once existed between the past and the present and between the archaeology of distant times and that of recent ones has started to disappear. Excavations are now exploring 20th century sites or ones that are even more recent. The barriers that once compartmentalised the fields of history, archaeology and anthropology have begun to crumble, yielding a vast common space, that of the present.
    The resulting challenges to traditional methodologies have generated a silent revolution that is undermining the ways these disciplines dealt with the past. Will we prove capable of acknowledging this new state of the social sciences and act accordingly ?
    The divide that once existed between the past and the present and between the archaeology of distant times and that of recent ones has started to disappear. Excavations are now exploring 20th century sites or ones that are even more recent. The barriers that once compartmentalised the fields of history, archaeology and anthropology have begun to crumble, yielding a vast common space, that of the present.
    The resulting challenges to traditional methodologies have generated a silent revolution that is undermining the ways these disciplines dealt with the past. Will we prove capable of acknowledging this new state of the social sciences and act accordingly ?