Archaeology for Today and Tomorrow

Craig N. Cipolla is Mellon Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Tufts University. Before moving to Massachusetts, he was Curator and Vettoretto Chair of North American Archaeology at the Royal Ontario Museum and Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. Author of Becoming Brothertown, Archaeological Theory in the New Millennium (with Oliver J. T. Harris, Routledge), and Archaeological Theory in Dialogue (with Rachel J. Crellin, Lindsay Montgomery, Oliver J. T. Harris, and Sophie Moore, Routledge), his research interests include collaborative Indigenous archaeology, historical archaeology, and archaeological theory. He currently directs the Mohegan Archaeological Field School in collaboration with the Mohegan Tribe of Connecticut. Rachel J. Crellin is Associate Professor of Archaeology at the University of Leicester. She is the author of Change and Archaeology (2020, Routledge) and a co-author of Archaeological Theory in Dialogue (with Craig N. Cipolla, Lindsay Montgomery, Oliver J. T. Harris, and Sophie Moore, 2021, Routledge). Her research interests center on archaeological theory, especially posthumanist feminism and new materialism, Neolithic and Bronze Age Britain and Ireland, and metalwork wear analysis. She currently co-directs the Round Mounds of the Isle of Man fieldwork project and the Leverhulme-funded project A New History of Bronze. Oliver J. T. Harris is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Leicester. He is the author of Assembling Past Worlds (Routledge) and the co-author of Archaeological Theory in the New Millennium (with Craig N. Cipolla, Routledge), Archaeological Theory in Dialogue (with Rachel J. Crellin, Craig N. Cipolla, Lindsay Montgomery, and Sophie Moore, Routledge), and The Body in History (with John Robb, CUP). He is interested in archaeological theory, the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, and the Neolithic and Bronze Age of Britain and Ireland. He co-directs fieldwork on the Ardnamurchan Peninsula, western Scotland.

Chapter 1 Building an archaeology for today and tomorrow: an introduction; Chapter 2 Archaeology and migration: more-than-human movements; Chapter 3 Archaeologies and capitalism: flows and desires; Chapter 4 Leaders of the past, leaders in the future: rethinking power; Chapter 5 Violence across the human/non-human divide: the virtual and the actual; Chapter 6 All the world’s a type: rethinking difference and taxonomy; Chapter 7 How we know the past: truth as relational and emergent; Chapter 8 The past as multiple: positive difference, ontological difference; Chapter 9 Archaeology and the Anthropocene: futurity and affect; Chapter 10 Building an archaeology for today and tomorrow: a conclusion.