Archaeology and Capitalism: From Ethics to Politics

Archaeological Ethnography: A Multitemporal Meeting Ground for Archaeology and Anthropology

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What is Archaeological Ethnography?

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Collaborative Archaeologies and Descendant Communities

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Making things public: Archaeologies of the Spanish Civil War

González-Ruibal, A. (2007) · Public Archaeology · doi:10.1179/175355307x264165 · Cited by 130 · see citing works

NATIVE PEOPLES AND ARCHAEOLOGY

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The “War on Terror” and the Military–Archaeology Complex: Iraq, Ethics, and Neo-Colonialism

Hamilakis, Y. (2009) · Archaeologies · doi:10.1007/s11759-009-9095-y · Cited by 106 · see citing works

A comparison of three established age estimation methods on an adult Spanish sample

Rissech, C., Wilson, J. J., Winburn, A. P., Turbón, D., & Steadman, D. W. (2011) · International Journal of Legal Medicine · doi:10.1007/s00414-011-0586-1 · Cited by 91 · see citing works

From a Given to a Construct

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Concrete matters: Ruins of modernity and the things called heritage

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Holocaust Archaeology: Archaeological Approaches to Landscapes of Nazi Genocide and Persecution

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Contract archaeology in Europe: an experiment in diversity

Kristiansen, K. (2009) · World Archaeology · doi:10.1080/00438240903371486 · Cited by 73 · see citing works

Decolonizing Greek archaeology: indigenous archaeologies, modernist archaeology and the post-colonial critique

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Archaeology dreaming

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Archaeology and the Forensic Investigation of Recent Mass Graves: Ethical Issues for a New Practice of Archaeology

Steele, C. (2008) · Archaeologies · doi:10.1007/s11759-008-9080-x · Cited by 60 · see citing works

Archaeology and Social Justice in Native America

Laluk, N. C., Montgomery, L. M., Tsosie, R., McCleave, C. D., Miron, R., Carroll, S. R., Aguilar, J., Thompson, A. B., Nelson, P. A., Sunseri, J. U., et al. (2022) · American Antiquity · doi:10.1017/aaq.2022.59 · Cited by 58 · see citing works

Modeling Métis mobility? Evaluating least cost paths and indigenous landscapes in the Canadian west

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Archaeologists and Indigenous People: A Maturing Relationship?

Murray, T. (2010) · Annual Review of Anthropology · doi:10.1146/annurev-anthro-081309-145729 · Cited by 56 · see citing works

Humeral development from neonatal period to skeletal maturity—application in age and sex assessment

Rissech, C., López‐Costas, O., & Turbón, D. (2012) · International Journal of Legal Medicine · doi:10.1007/s00414-012-0713-7 · Cited by 53 · see citing works

Structural Violence in Archaeology

Bernbeck, R. (2008) · Archaeologies · doi:10.1007/s11759-008-9076-6 · Cited by 52 · see citing works

Heritage and Community Engagement

Waterton, E. (2014) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-1-4939-1649-8_4 · Cited by 52 · see citing works

Looting, the Antiquities Trade, and Competing Valuations of the Past

Barker, A. W. (2018) · Annual Review of Anthropology · doi:10.1146/annurev-anthro-102116-041320 · Cited by 48 · see citing works

Heritage interpretation and human rights: documenting diversity, expressing identity, or establishing universal principles?

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Heritage Management and Conservation

Ndoro, W., & Wijesuriya, G. (2015) · Global Heritage · doi:10.1002/9781394261154.ch6 · Cited by 46 · see citing works

Imagining genocide heritage: Material modes of development and preservation in Rwanda

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On Contract Archaeology

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The demographic, socio‐economic and temporal contextualisation of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona collection of identified human skeletons (UAB collection)

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Justice, Transaction, Translation: Blackfoot Tipi Transfers and WIPO's Search for the Facts of Traditional Knowledge Exchange

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Decolonial archaeology as social justice

Hamilakis, Y. (2018) · Antiquity · doi:10.15184/aqy.2018.17 · Cited by 40 · see citing works

Claims to the Past. A Critical View of the Arguments Driving Repatriation of Cultural Heritage and Their Role in Contemporary Identity Politics

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An ethical crisis in ancient DNA research: Insights from the Chaco Canyon controversy as a case study

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Ethics of Archaeology

González‐Ruibal, A. (2018) · Annual Review of Anthropology · doi:10.1146/annurev-anthro-102317-045825 · Cited by 37 · see citing works

Archaeology and the Logic of Capital: Pulling the Emergency Break

Hamilakis, Y. (2015) · International Journal of Historical Archaeology · doi:10.1007/s10761-015-0307-4 · Cited by 36 · see citing works

Historical Archaeologies of the American West

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Excavation methodologies and labour as epistemic concerns in the practice of archaeology. Comparing examples from British and Andean archaeology

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Archaeology and Contemporary Warfare

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Post-colonialism, human origins and the paradox of modernity

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African American descendants, community outreach, and the Ransom and Sarah Williams Farmstead Project

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Ethical implications of salvage archaeology and dam building: The clash between archaeologists and local people in Dar al-Manasir, Sudan

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Multisited Research on Colonowares and the Paradox of Globalization

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A Reconsideration of Rwandan Archaeological Ceramics and their Political Significance in a Post-Genocide Era

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The Political, Social and Scientific Contexts of Archaeological Investigations of Mass Graves in Spain

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Public archaeology, knowledge meetings and heritage ethics in southern Africa: an approach from Mozambique

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Country and Relational Ontology in the Kimberley, Northwest Australia: Implications for Understanding and Representing Archaeological Evidence

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Situating the Greenham Archaeology: An Autoethnography of a Feminist Project

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The Subject of Suffering

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Dilemma of local socio-economic perspectives in management of historic ruins in Kilwa Kisiwani World Heritage Site, Tanzania

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Repatriation, Doxa, and Contested Heritages

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Prejudice, military intelligence, and neoliberalism: examining the local within archaeology and heritage practices in Jordan

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(Re-)Presenting the Holocaust

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Reflections on an Archaeological Ethnography of 'Looting' in Kozani, Greece

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Is archaeology conceivable within the degrowth movement?

Zorzin, N. (2021) · Archaeological Dialogues · doi:10.1017/s1380203821000015 · Cited by 25 · see citing works

Are We There Yet? Archaeology and the Postmodern in the New Millennium

Fahlander, F. (2021) · Current Swedish Archaeology · doi:10.37718/csa.2012.11 · Cited by 25 · see citing works

Applied Archaeology and Community Collaboration: Uncovering the Past and Empowering the Present

Brighton, S. A. (2011) · Human Organization · doi:10.17730/humo.70.4.w0373w8655574266 · Cited by 25 · see citing works

Dystopian Archaeologies: the Implementation of the Logic of Capital in Heritage Management

Zorzin, N. (2015) · International Journal of Historical Archaeology · doi:10.1007/s10761-015-0315-4 · Cited by 24 · see citing works

Assembling Archaeology

Cobb, H., & Croucher, K. (2020) · doi:10.1093/oso/9780198784258.001.0001 · Cited by 23 · see citing works

Heritage, Education and Social Justice

Apaydın, V. (2022) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781009052351 · Cited by 22 · see citing works

A four-tier approach to the protection of cultural property in the event of armed conflict

Stone, P. G. (2013) · Antiquity · doi:10.1017/s0003598x00048699 · Cited by 22 · see citing works

Ethics, Archaeology, and Civil Conflict: The Case of Spain

González-Ruibal, A., Ayán Vila, X., & Caesar, R. (2015) · Ethics and the Archaeology of Violence · doi:10.1007/978-1-4939-1643-6_7 · Cited by 21 · see citing works

The Islamic State’s Targeting of Christians and their Heritage: Genocide, Displacement and Reconciliation

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Archaeological Ethnography, Heritage Management, and Community Archaeology: A Pragmatic Approach from Crete

Kyriakidis, E., & Anagnostopoulos, A. (2015) · Public Archaeology · doi:10.1080/14655187.2016.1221988 · Cited by 21 · see citing works

Archaeology as History

Frieman, C. J. (2023) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781009052412 · Cited by 21 · see citing works

Archaeology and Capitalism: Successful Relationship or Economic and Ethical Alienation?

Zorzin, N. (2014) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-1-4939-1646-7_9 · Cited by 21 · see citing works

Archaeologies of whiteness

Reilly, M. C. (2022) · Archaeological Dialogues · doi:10.1017/s1380203822000174 · Cited by 20 · see citing works

Teaching Anti-Colonial Archaeology

Hutchings, R., & La Salle, M. (2014) · Archaeologies · doi:10.1007/s11759-014-9250-y · Cited by 19 · see citing works

‘Where angels fear to tread’: ethics, commercial archaeology, and extractive industries in southern Africa

Chirikure, S. (2014) · Azania Archaeological Research in Africa · doi:10.1080/0067270x.2014.909166 · Cited by 19 · see citing works

Archaeologists Colonizing Canada: The Effects of Unquestioned Categories

Beaudoin, M. A. (2016) · Archaeologies · doi:10.1007/s11759-016-9289-z · Cited by 19 · see citing works

2 The Limits of Experience: Suffering, Nazi Forced Labor Camps, and Archaeology

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Sámi Archaeology and the Fear of Political Involvement: Finnish Archaeologists’ Perspectives on Ethnicity and the Repatriation of Sámi Cultural Heritage

Harlin, E.-K. (2019) · Archaeologies · doi:10.1007/s11759-019-09366-7 · Cited by 18 · see citing works

The Contemporary Past of San Pedro de Atacama, Northern Chile: Public Archaeology?

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Big Data in Maritime Archaeology: Challenges and Prospects from the Middle East and North Africa

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Cultural heritage in the realm of the commons: Conversations on the Case of Greece

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Control of Indigenous Archaeological Heritage in Ontario, Canada

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“In [Them] We Will Find Very Desirable Tributaries for Our Commerce”: Cash Crops, Commodities, and Subjectivities in Siin (Senegal) During the Colonial Era

Richard, F. G. (2011) · Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology/Contributions to global historical archaeology · doi:10.1007/978-1-4614-0192-6_9 · Cited by 16 · see citing works

The Poverty Trap: Or, Why Poverty is Not About the Individual

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Towards New Futures for Archaeological Data Production: Challenging Archaeonormativity through Storytelling

Perry, S., Simandiraki‐Grimshaw, A., Morgan, C., Taylor, J. S., Fadioui, A., Foket, L., Hacıgüzeller, P., Sampatakou, D. V., Derudas, P., Wright, H., et al. (2025) · Journal of Field Archaeology · doi:10.1080/00934690.2025.2504235 · Cited by 15 · see citing works

Errors of Fact and Errors of Representation: Response to Shepherd and Haber's Critique of the World Archaeological Congress

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Intellectual Soup: On the Reformulation and Repatriation of Indigenous Knowledge

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Heritage Places:

Silberman, N. A. (2015) · Wiley eBooks · doi:10.1002/9781118486634.ch2 · Cited by 15 · see citing works

The need and potential for an archaeology orientated towards the present

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Development and Disciplinary Complicity: Contract Archaeology in South America Under the Critical Gaze

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The Unethical Enterprise of the Past: Lessons from the Collapse of Archaeological Heritage Management in Spain

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The Field Crew Symposium

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Often Fun, Usually Messy: Fieldwork, Recording and Higher Orders of Things

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The Ethics of Public Engagement in the Archaeology of Modern Conflict

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Respectful Terminology in Archaeological Compliance

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Archaeology as a Means for Peace or a Source of Violence? An Introduction

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New Worlds: Ethics in Contemporary North American Archaeological Practice

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Making the Past Relevant

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Undisciplining Archaeological Ethics

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Are We Postcolonial Yet? Tales from the Battlefield

Hamilakis, Y. (2012) · Archaeologies · doi:10.1007/s11759-012-9200-5 · Cited by 11 · see citing works

Technology, material culture and the well-being of Aboriginal peoples of Canada

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Collections, Collecting and Collectives: Gathering Heritage Data with Communities in the Mountains of Matatiele and Lesotho, Southern Africa

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Archaeology and the Late Modern State: Introduction to the Special Issue

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Archaeologies ‘now’. Creative interventions in the present for the future

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Universalism and the new museology: impacts on the ethics of authority and ownership

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When megaprojects meet archaeology: a research framework and case study from Yenikapi, Istanbul

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An Emerging Archaeology of the Nazi Era

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Itineraries, iconoclasm, and the pragmatics of heritage

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Communities and Ethics in the Heritage Debates

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LATE ANCESTRAL PUEBLO OR MOGOLLON PUEBLO? AN ARCHITECTURAL PERSPECTIVE ON IDENTITY

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Is Archaeology Political? Transformative Praxis within and against the Boundaries of Archaeology

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Ethics, Capitalism and Public Archaeology in Brazil

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Archaeology for the People: the Ethics of Public Archeology

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Arqueología y Capitalismo

García, J. M. V., & Manuel, J. (2019)

The Politics of Archaeology

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