Open AccessLooking into the Recent Past: Extending and Exploring the Field of Archaeology
Author(s) -
Mats Burström
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
current swedish archaeology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.256
H-Index - 8
eISSN - 2002-3901
pISSN - 1102-7355
DOI - 10.37718/csa.2008.02
Subject(s) - archaeology , field (mathematics) , historical archaeology , relevance (law) , post medieval archaeology , history , prehistoric archaeology , period (music) , landscape archaeology , extension (predicate logic) , material culture , art , aesthetics , engineering , political science , computer science , law , prehistory , civil engineering , landscape design , mathematics , pure mathematics , programming language
The archaeology of the recent past is a growing field of research. Is this merely a chronological extension of the field of archaeology, or is it something more? What motivates an archaeological interest in a period of time for which there are so many other sources of information? Here it is argued that the archaeology of the recent past is important not only to bring to light other stories than those generally told, but also to bring to the forc theoretical issues of general relevance for archaeology. The latter concern what material remains can be more than just potential sources of information about the past.