Archaeology Outside the Box

Archaeology Outside the Box makes contemporary archaeology germane to the general public as well as to researchers in other disciplines. In thirty-one richly illustrated chapters, a wide variety of projects is presented by an international group of anthropologists, archaeologists, architects, and artists. These aim to broaden the applicability of archaeology by reflecting on archaeological remains in novel ways, or by addressing contemporary concerns with archaeological theory and research methods. Demonstrating the fascinating and pertinent nature of archaeology, the authors go far beyond its definition as a discipline that unearths objects of ancient material culture. Many chapters also provide arguments relevant to the soul-searching discussions currently taking place within archaeology worldwide and accelerated by the Black Lives Matter movement and the recent Covid-19 pandemic.

Chapter 31: Archaeology Outside the Box: An Introduction. Hans Barnard Chapter 30:The Box Project and Outside-the-Box Archaeology. Willeke Wendrich Part III: A New Perspective on Archaeology Chapter 29: Building and Burning Stone Age Houses. Annelou van Gijn Chapter 28: What Did It Feel Like? How Sensory Archaeology is Changing the Way We Understand the Past and Present. Robin Skeates Chapter 27: Psychology from the Bronze Age: Faces, Emotions, and Personalities at Thera. Torill Christine Lindstr Chapter 26: Rumors of War and Warrior Realities in the Peruvian Andes. Danielle Kurin, Valda Black, Beatriz Lizarraga, and Ivanna Robledo Chapter 25: Archaeology and Contemporary Capitalism. Peter G. Gould Chapter 24: Stuff. Jerzy Gawronski Chapter 23: What Remains of Paquius Proculus: Video Game Bodies in Virtual Pompeii. David Fredrick, Rhodora G. Vennarucci, and William Loder Chapter 22: The Museum Hotel Antakya: Against the Collar for Ten Tough Years. Emre Arolat Part II: The Archaeology of Living Memory Chapter 21: Using Archaeology to Understand Homelessness. Larry J. Zimmerman Chapter 20: Forgotten Products of Labor: A Ritual of Many Lives. Ruth Tringham and Annie Danis Chapter 19: Hostile Terrain 94: Using an Archaeological Sensibility to Raise Awareness about Migrant Death along the U.S.-Mexico Border. Nicole Smith, Gabriel Canter, Austin E. Shipman, Cameron Gokee, Haeden Stewart, and Jason De Leon Chapter 18: On AIR: An Archaeological Riff on Montserrat's World-Famous 1980s Recording Studio. Krysta Ryzewski and John F. Cherry Chapter 17: Radical Stratigraphy: Excavating a Century of Los Angeles Graffiti. Susan A. Phillips Chapter 16: Chokehold on Freedom: Archaeology, Incarceration, and the Ideology of Whiteness. Barra O'Donnabhain Chapter 15: Kitchen Detritus in Modern Archaeology. La Vergne Lehmann Chapter 14: Litterscapes in the Anthropocene: An Archaeology of Discarded Cigarettes. Anthony P. Graesch and Timothy Hartshorn Chapter 13: Archaeology in a Vacuum: Obstacles to and Solutions for Developing a Real Space Archaeology. Alice Gorman and Justin Walsh Chapter 12: War Near At Home: An Archaeology of Conflict. Alfredo Gonzalez-Ruibal Chapter 11: Stories that Change Things: Reflections on the Materiality of Living Memory. Bonnie J. Clark and Ian Kuijt Chapter 10: The Bakken Hundreds. William Caraher and Bret Weber Chapter 9: A Loss of an Absence. Reinhard Bernbeck Chapter 8: Archaeogaming Is X. John Aycock and Katie Biittner Part I: Humans and Objects Chapter 7: The Wall that Gives/El muro que da: Trash in a Box. Maite Zubiaurre and Filomena Cruz Chapter 6: Portraits of Ancient Linen. Gail Rothschild Chapter 5: Abandoned Places and No Man's Land. Henk van Rensbergen Chapter 4: All Objects Have Been Contemporary: An Archaeology of Us. Enrico Ferraris Chapter 3: A First Exercise in Autovocality: The Archaeology of My Study. Hans Barnard Chapter 2: A Second Exercise in Autovocality: The Archaeology of My Living. Hans Barnard Chapter 1: Beyond Archaeology: Disarticulation and Its Consequences. Doug Bailey