Geoglyphs are signs inscribed into the landscape by cutting into the ground, arranging stones, or piling up earth. Their medium is the Earth itself. Once made, they become part of its surface and begi...

A reflection on monuments, power and heritage through Shelley’s Ozymandias, asking how archaeology and preservation may unwittingly perpetuate the structures of attention that monuments were built to ...

The EAA conference in Athens went ahead amid boycotts, protests and an unresolved crisis over Gaza and Israeli institutional participation. Nothing was resolved; archaeology continued. A short reflect...

The EAA conference in Athens went ahead amid boycotts, protests and an unresolved crisis over Gaza and Israeli institutional participation. Nothing was resolved; archaeology continued. A short reflect...

The EAA is welcoming scholars from Hebrew University, which is partially built on land illegally expropriated from Palestinians in Israeli-occupied East Jerusalem, to its annual meeting, Sept 2-6.

What does an archaeological excavation look like to a dog? A fragment about field dogs, archaeological distance, attention, sociality, and the gaze that puts archaeologists back into the frame.

What does an archaeological excavation look like to a dog? A fragment about field dogs, archaeological distance, attention, sociality, and the gaze that puts archaeologists back into the frame.

What does an archaeological excavation look like to a dog? A fragment about field dogs, archaeological distance, attention, sociality, and the gaze that puts archaeologists back into the frame.

Feral Methods; essays on naturecultures by Dimitrij Mlekuž Vrhovnik.

Feral Methods; essays on naturecultures by Dimitrij Mlekuž Vrhovnik.

An essay on Kafka’s Odradek, the Lepenski Vir archive, and the unsettling afterlife of archaeological interpretation. Every act of ordering leaves something without a place.

The archive appears, at first, to be the final stage of memory. Memory organises traces; the archive preserves those organisations. Yet this is only half the story. Once memory acquires hard material ...

Persistence alone, however, is insufficient for memory. If every enduring trace were already memory, memory would be automatic and indiscriminate. Such an account collapses memory into mere duration. Memory requires more than endurance: it requires that traces enter into relations.

Before it is read, it is not yet a trace. After it is read, it is never just itself again. The trace exists only in the encounter. It becomes a trace only when something enters into relation with it, a gaze, a body, a tool, a question, a method.

Archaeology is always already political, because its interpretations of the past shape identities, heritage, and claims to belonging, and can and are mobilised by states, institutions, and communities as tools of power, exclusion, or legitimation. But archaeology is political also because it speaks about the Other in order to sustain itself. It is a collective practice that studies the persistence, fracture, and failure of human ways of living together, while continuously organising, regulating, and disciplining social relations within its own community. How archaeologists live and work together is not external to knowledge production; it is constitutive of it.

Neanderthal fingerprint art was among the discoveries.