Clashes of time
Subtitle: the contemporary past as a challenge for archaeology
By: edited by Jean-Marie Blaising, Jan Driessen, Jean-Pierre Legendre, Laurent Olivier
Series: The GRAAL-series -- 2017; GRAAL (Groupe de recherches en archéologie et anthropologie de Louvain)
Publisher: UCL Presses universitaires de Louvain
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9782875586254; 9782875586261
Subjects: Archaeology; Case studies
Description: "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?"--Back cover

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?
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.