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Some Reflections on Heritage and Archaeology in the Anthropocene

Brit Solli Department of Archaeology, Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo, NorwayCorrespondence[email protected]
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Mats Burström Department of Archaeology and Classical Studies, Stockholm University, SwedenCorrespondence[email protected]
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Ewa Domanska Adam Mickiewicz University at Poznan, Poland/Stanford University, California, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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Matt Edgeworth Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester, United KingdomCorrespondence[email protected]
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Alfredo González-Ruibal Heritage Laboratory, Spanish National Research Council, Madrid, SpainCorrespondence[email protected]
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Cornelius Holtorf School of Cultural Sciences, Linnaeus University, Kalmar, SwedenCorrespondence[email protected]
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Gavin Lucas Institute of Archaeology, University of Iceland, Reykjavík, IcelandCorrespondence[email protected]
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Terje Oestigaard The Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala, SwedenCorrespondence[email protected]
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Laurajane Smith Research School of Humanities & the Arts, The Australian National University, Canberra, AustraliaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Christopher Witmore Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 40-88 | Published online: 09 Jun 2011
 
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Abstract

Are we now living in a new geological epoch called the Anthropocene? Geo-scientists discuss whether there is a need for a new concept covering the last 250 years' immense human impact on the earth. How are we going to understand and define ‘heritage’ and archaeology in a rapidly changing global environment? The ‘linguistic turn’ in humanities and social sciences has had a huge impact on both archaeology and heritage studies since c. 1980. A critique is raised against the anti-essentialist view that heritage is constructed, not discovered. Furthermore, the paper discusses the legacy of ‘the linguistic turn’, post-processualism and environmental archaeology.

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