New Challenges. Archaeological Heritage Management and the Archaeology of the 18th to 20th centuries

European Archaeological Council Occasional Paper No. 19
Budapest, Archaeolingua, 2024
Keménykötés | Hardback
150 oldal, színes és fekete-fehér illusztrációkkal | 150 pages with colored and grayscale images
ISBN 978 615 5766 68 8

Description

“Contemporary Archaeology” deals with sites, features and finds from the period after the beginning of industrialisation, obtained through excavation and documentation using techniques and methods applied in all fields of archaeology. The topic and the comparatively ‘young’ period in focus are not completely new for archaeological monument preservation, even if they are explicitly considered in only a relatively few monument protection laws. It has long been common practice in many places across Europe to protect, preserve, and research monuments of the recent past—simply because they are there. This is both a challenge and an opportunity for archaeological heritage management, considered in the 2023 EAC symposium papers. Archaeological heritage preservation gains weight because it is accompanied by a special interest from the public and, thus, can develop opportunities to participate in political education. The material remains of war and terror lead us to the limits of archaeology and beyond: they become evidence, crime scenes, and anchors for commemoration and political education.