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Turning to things – ontology, epistemology, and a case of metaphorism

Turning to things - ontology, epistemology, and a case of metaphorism

by Marko Marila (University of Helsinki)

The recent turn to things in archaeology for me is first and foremost a turn to realism in archaeology. With realism I refer to the kind of ontological and epistemological realism that not only takes different parts of the world as things-in-themselves capable of holding their ground even after humans are no longer around to experience them and ‘give them meaning’ so to speak, but admits that the correlationist divide between consciousness and reality is […]


Proximate Ruins and the Building 500 Project

Proximate Ruins and the Building 500 Project

by Timothy Webmoor

How are Ruins?

No doubt ruins are the stuff of the archaeological; abandoned, forgotten buildings and objects left to decay. And of course discovered, recovered and gazed at; traces connecting us, now with then, that. This also is conventionally the stuff of the archaeological. The (neo)romantic impulse to stand amongst what was lost to (volitional) memory. To connect up settings and things of another time with here and now; to be where we never were.

Yet how are ruins? How does […]