1st Edition

Shadow Archaeologies In the Shadow of Antiquity or For Other Modes of Archaeological Worldmaking

Edited By Assaf Nativ, Gavin Lucas Copyright 2025
370 Pages 96 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

370 Pages 96 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

370 Pages 96 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Shadow Archaeologies explores the modes of knowledge production which operate where the light of mainstream, historically oriented archaeology does not reach. It exposes the field’s underbelly and dwells on issues that standard practice ignores or glosses over, questioning what archaeology and the archaeological are or could be. The volume brings together scholars working at the discipline’s... Read more

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List of Contributors

 

1. In the Shadow of Antiquity: For Other Modes of Archaeological Worldmaking

Assaf Nativ and Gavin Lucas

 

PART I: POLITICS

 

2. The Form of a Shadow: Decolonial Practice, Refusal, and Feminist Killjoys

Uzma Z. Rizvi

 

3. Colonial Shadows, Multitemporality, and Continuous Change Around the Great Lakes

Tiziana Gallo and Craig N. Cipolla

 

4. Archaeology and Technology: Living in the Shadow of the Machine-Gods

Artur Ribeiro

 

5. Tacit Archaeology: Legacy Colonialism, Implicit Knowing, Cultural Techniques, and Slow Inheritance

Dan Hicks and Rebekka Ladewig

 

6. Contemporary Archaeology as Shadow Archaeology in (the North of) Ireland

Laura McAtackney

 

7. Staying on the Surface of Qadas

Raphael Greenberg

 

PART II: PRACTICES 

 

8. Wonder, Intuition, and Compulsive Creativity as Archaeological Method

Benjamin Alberti

 

9. Hauntography and Other Dark Arts

Sara A. Rich

 

10. Shadow Metal Detecting: Archaeological Worldmaking in Another Context

Suzie Thomas, Wim De Sutter and Pieter-Jan Vanhaesebroek

 

11. Performance in Archaeology and the Archaeology of Performance: An Experimentation at the Neolithic Site of Toumba Serron in Northern Greece

Graham Shackell and Nicolas Zorzin

 

12. Yellowcake: A Performative (An)Archaeology of Uranium

Marko Marila and Tea Andreoletti

 

13. The Limeburners

Caleb Lightfoot

 

14. ‘Shadowplay’: A Conversation About Archaeology and Music

John Schofield, Brett Lashua, and Paul Thompson

 

 PART III: OBJECTS

 

15. Shadows from Below: On an Increasingly Permeable Object of Permian Proportions

Christopher Witmore

 

16. The Archaeosphere: Emerging from the Shadows, Receding from the Light

Matt Edgeworth

 

17. In the Shadow of Ruins: Rubble of the Post-War Warsaw

Monika Stobiecka

 

18. Archaeology as a Hauntology of Remains

Yannis Hamilakis

 

19. In the Dark Abyss of Time: Where Stands Archaeology?

Laurent Olivier

 

20. Buried Culture and the Dark Side of the (Excavated) Archaeological Object

Assaf Nativ

 

21. On ‘Incompossible’ Pasts and the Powers of the False: Exploring the Shadow Worlds Archaeology Encounters and Forgets

Oliver J. T. Harris

 

Index

Biography

Assaf Nativ is an independent scholar. His primary interests pertain to how archaeologists construct their professional knowledge, especially pertaining to the value systems that underlie their choices and judgements. His practical experience was primarily acquired in the southern Levant, where he excavated sites spanning the Pottery Neolithic period and the twentieth century.

Gavin Lucas is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Iceland. He has an enduring interest in the way archaeologists think and work, with a special interest in the concept of time. His main focus of fieldwork and empirical research has been on the archaeology of the last 500 years.