The contemporary in post-medieval archaeology

TY - JOUR

T1 - The contemporary in post-medieval archaeology

AU - McAtackney, Laura

AU - Penrose, Sefryn

PY - 2016/7/21

Y1 - 2016/7/21

N2 - Contemporary archaeology is an emerging field of enquiry within the wider discipline associated with the questioning of temporal boundaries in what we study and why we engage with material remains of the recent past more generally. This article argues that contemporary archaeology should be broadly defined at this stage in its development and therefore can be located in Post-Medieval Archaeology through research that explicitly engages with what it is to conduct contemporary archaeology, but also through those implicitly considering how the past intrudes into the present. We believe that Post-Medieval Archaeology will continue to highlight archaeological studies of the contemporary into the future.

AB - Contemporary archaeology is an emerging field of enquiry within the wider discipline associated with the questioning of temporal boundaries in what we study and why we engage with material remains of the recent past more generally. This article argues that contemporary archaeology should be broadly defined at this stage in its development and therefore can be located in Post-Medieval Archaeology through research that explicitly engages with what it is to conduct contemporary archaeology, but also through those implicitly considering how the past intrudes into the present. We believe that Post-Medieval Archaeology will continue to highlight archaeological studies of the contemporary into the future.

UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84985995823

U2 - 10.1080/00794236.2016.1169488

DO - 10.1080/00794236.2016.1169488

M3 - Journal article

SN - 0079-4236

VL - 50

SP - 148

EP - 158

JO - Post-Medieval Archaeology

JF - Post-Medieval Archaeology

IS - 1

ER -