Publisher： Cambridge University Press
E-ISSN： 1478-2294|18|2|176-180
ISSN： 1380-2038
Source： Archaeological Dialogues, Vol.18, Iss.2, 2011-12, pp. : 176-180
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Abstract
I was trained as a processual archaeologist in the 1960s, and as a result my interests and research, along with the vocabulary I have used to express these, have followed a different trajectory from those paths that have emerged out of what we once called postprocessual archaeology. This is not to say that we do not have common beacons. I believe we certainly do. To this end, I am writing this dialogue with Harrison's piece to rename the ‘archaeology of the contemporary past’ as ‘archaeology in and of the present’ and ‘for the future’. I like the new name for contemporary past archaeology, but archaeologists in and of the present should not forget about their own past.
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