Archaeology and Capitalism: From Ethics to Politics

Archaeological Ethnography: A Multitemporal Meeting Ground for Archaeology and Anthropology

Hamilakis, Y. (2011) · Annual Review of Anthropology · doi:10.1146/annurev-anthro-081309-145732 · Cited by 170

What is Archaeological Ethnography?

Hamilakis, Y., & Anagnostopoulos, A. (2009) · Public Archaeology · doi:10.1179/175355309x457150 · Cited by 178

Collaborative Archaeologies and Descendant Communities

Colwell, C. (2016) · Annual Review of Anthropology · doi:10.1146/annurev-anthro-102215-095937 · Cited by 178

Making things public: Archaeologies of the Spanish Civil War

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

NATIVE PEOPLES AND ARCHAEOLOGY

Nicholas, G. (2008) · Elsevier eBooks · doi:10.1016/b978-012373962-9.00203-x · Cited by 123

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 59

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 93

From a Given to a Construct

González, P. A. (2013) · Cultural Studies · doi:10.1080/09502386.2013.789067 · Cited by 82

Concrete matters: Ruins of modernity and the things called heritage

Pétursdóttir, Þ. (2013) · Journal of Social Archaeology · doi:10.1177/1469605312456342 · Cited by 81

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

Colls, C. S. (2012) · Journal of Conflict Archaeology · doi:10.1179/1574077312z.0000000005 · Cited by 77

Contract archaeology in Europe: an experiment in diversity

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

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

Hamilakis, Y. (2008) · Μουσείο Μπενάκη · doi:10.12681/benaki.18044 · Cited by 66

Archaeology dreaming

Shepherd, N. (2007) · Journal of Social Archaeology · doi:10.1177/1469605307067842 · Cited by 64

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

Supernant, K. (2017) · Journal of Archaeological Science · doi:10.1016/j.jas.2017.05.006 · Cited by 64

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

Archaeology and Social Justice in Native America

Laluk, N. C., Montgomery, L. M., Tsosie, R., McCleave, C., Miron, R., Carroll, S. R., Aguilar, J., Thompson, A. B. W., Nelson, P., Sunseri, J., et al. (2022) · American Antiquity · doi:10.1017/aaq.2022.59 · Cited by 59

Archaeologists and Indigenous People: A Maturing Relationship?

Murray, T. (2010) · Annual Review of Anthropology · doi:10.1146/annurev-anthro-081309-145729 · Cited by 57

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 57

Structural Violence in Archaeology

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

Heritage and Community Engagement

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

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 51

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

Silberman, N. A. (2012) · International Journal of Heritage Studies · doi:10.1080/13527258.2012.643910 · Cited by 55

Heritage Management and Conservation

Ndoro, W., & Wijesuriya, G. (2015) · Global Heritage · doi:10.1002/9781394261154.ch6 · Cited by 48

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

Bolin, A. (2019) · Journal of Material Culture · doi:10.1177/1359183519860881 · Cited by 44

On Contract Archaeology

Gnecco, C., & Dias, A. S. (2015) · International Journal of Historical Archaeology · doi:10.1007/s10761-015-0305-6 · Cited by 43

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

Rissech, C., & Steadman, D. W. (2010) · International Journal of Osteoarchaeology · doi:10.1002/oa.1145 · Cited by 47

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

Noble, B. (2007) · American Anthropologist · doi:10.1525/aa.2007.109.2.338 · Cited by 41

Decolonial archaeology as social justice

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

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

Stutz, L. N. (2013) · Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding · doi:10.1080/17502977.2012.714243 · Cited by 38

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

Cortez, A. D., Bolnick, D. A., Nicholas, G., Bardill, J., & Colwell, C. (2021) · Journal of Social Archaeology · doi:10.1177/1469605321991600 · Cited by 38

Ethics of Archaeology

González‐Ruibal, A. (2018) · Annual Review of Anthropology · doi:10.1146/annurev-anthro-102317-045825 · Cited by 42

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

Historical Archaeologies of the American West

Dixon, K. J. (2014) · Journal of Archaeological Research · doi:10.1007/s10814-013-9071-3 · Cited by 37

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

Leighton, M. (2015) · Archaeological Dialogues · doi:10.1017/s1380203815000100 · Cited by 34

Archaeology and Contemporary Warfare

Pollock, S. (2016) · Annual Review of Anthropology · doi:10.1146/annurev-anthro-102215-095913 · Cited by 35

Post-colonialism, human origins and the paradox of modernity

Porr, M., & Matthews, J. M. (2017) · Antiquity · doi:10.15184/aqy.2017.82 · Cited by 33

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

Franklin, M., & Lee, N. (2020) · Journal of Community Archaeology & Heritage · doi:10.1080/20518196.2020.1718408 · Cited by 31

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

Hafsaas, H. (2011) · Journal of Social Archaeology · doi:10.1177/1469605310388372 · Cited by 33

Multisited Research on Colonowares and the Paradox of Globalization

Cobb, C. R., & DePratter, C. B. (2012) · American Anthropologist · doi:10.1111/j.1548-1433.2012.01445.x · Cited by 26

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

Giblin, J. D. (2013) · African Archaeological Review · doi:10.1007/s10437-013-9144-1 · Cited by 31

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

Gassiot Ballbé, E., & Steadman, D. W. (2008) · Archaeologies · doi:10.1007/s11759-008-9081-9 · Cited by 31

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

Jopela, A., & Fredriksen, P. D. (2015) · World Archaeology · doi:10.1080/00438243.2015.1016583 · Cited by 30

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

Porr, M. (2018) · Cambridge Archaeological Journal · doi:10.1017/s0959774318000185 · Cited by 31

Situating the Greenham Archaeology: An Autoethnography of a Feminist Project

Marshall, Y., Roseneil, S., & Armstrong, K. (2009) · Public Archaeology · doi:10.1179/175355309x457240 · Cited by 29

The Subject of Suffering

Pollock, S. (2016) · American Anthropologist · doi:10.1111/aman.12686 · Cited by 29

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

Lwoga, N. B. (2018) · International Journal of Heritage Studies · doi:10.1080/13527258.2018.1430604 · Cited by 27

Repatriation, Doxa, and Contested Heritages

Plets, G., Konstantinov, N., Soenov, V. I., & Robinson, E. (2013) · Anthropology & Archeology of Eurasia · doi:10.2753/aae1061-1959520205 · Cited by 26

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

Abu‐Khafajah, S., & Miqdadi, R. (2019) · Contemporary Levant · doi:10.1080/20581831.2019.1667667 · Cited by 26

(Re-)Presenting the Holocaust

Colls, C. S. (2015) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-319-10641-0_12 · Cited by 26

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

Antoniadou, I. (2009) · Public Archaeology · doi:10.1179/175355309x457259 · Cited by 25

Is archaeology conceivable within the degrowth movement?

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

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

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

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

Assembling Archaeology

Cobb, H., & Croucher, K. (2020) · doi:10.1093/oso/9780198784258.001.0001 · Cited by 24

Heritage, Education and Social Justice

Apaydın, V. (2022) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781009052351 · Cited by 24

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

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

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

Isakhan, B., & Shahab, S. (2022) · International Journal of Heritage Studies · doi:10.1080/13527258.2022.2086155 · Cited by 21

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

Archaeology as History

Frieman, C. J. (2023) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781009052412 · Cited by 22

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

Archaeologies of whiteness

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

Teaching Anti-Colonial Archaeology

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

‘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 20

Archaeologists Colonizing Canada: The Effects of Unquestioned Categories

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

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

Pollock, S., & Bernbeck, R. (2016) · Archeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association · doi:10.1111/apaa.12072 · Cited by 20

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

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

Vilches, F., Garrido, C., Ayala, P., & Cárdenas, U. (2015) · Archaeologies · doi:10.1007/s11759-015-9283-x · Cited by 18

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

Andreou, G. M., Nikolaus, J. S., Westley, K., Safadi, C. E., Blue, L., Smith, A., & Breen, C. (2022) · Journal of Field Archaeology · doi:10.1080/00934690.2022.2028082 · Cited by 17

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

Lekakis, S. (2020) · Ubiquity Press eBooks · doi:10.5334/bcj · Cited by 17

Control of Indigenous Archaeological Heritage in Ontario, Canada

Warrick, G. (2017) · Archaeologies · doi:10.1007/s11759-017-9310-1 · Cited by 13

“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

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

Symonds, J. (2011) · International Journal of Historical Archaeology · doi:10.1007/s10761-011-0156-8 · Cited by 16

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

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

Smith, C. (2011) · Public Archaeology · doi:10.1179/175355311x13206765126677 · Cited by 15

Intellectual Soup: On the Reformulation and Repatriation of Indigenous Knowledge

Smith, C., Copley, V., & Jackson, G. T. (2017) · SpringerBriefs in archaeology. Archaeological heritage management/SpringerBriefs in archaeology/Springer briefs in archaeological heritage management · doi:10.1007/978-3-319-68652-3_2 · Cited by 15

Heritage Places:

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

The need and potential for an archaeology orientated towards the present

Holtorf, C. J. (2013) · Archaeological Dialogues · doi:10.1017/s1380203813000056 · Cited by 14

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

Gnecco, C. (2018) · Annual Review of Anthropology · doi:10.1146/annurev-anthro-102317-045752 · Cited by 13

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

Parga‐Dans, E., & González, P. A. (2020) · Journal of Business Ethics · doi:10.1007/s10551-020-04504-6 · Cited by 12

The Field Crew Symposium

Overholtzer, L. (2015) · Advances in Archaeological Practice · doi:10.7183/2326-3768.3.1.50 · Cited by 13

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

Thorpe, R. (2012) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-1-4614-2338-6_3 · Cited by 12

The Ethics of Public Engagement in the Archaeology of Modern Conflict

Moshenska, G. (2014) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-1-4939-1643-6_10 · Cited by 12

Respectful Terminology in Archaeological Compliance

Watson, J. T., Young, A. J., Garcia-Lewis, A., Lucas, C., & Plummer, S. D. (2022) · Advances in Archaeological Practice · doi:10.1017/aap.2021.47 · Cited by 11

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

Pollock, S. (2008) · Archaeologies · doi:10.1007/s11759-008-9077-5 · Cited by 11

New Worlds: Ethics in Contemporary North American Archaeological Practice

Ferris, N., & Welch, J. R. (2014) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-1-4939-1646-7_7 · Cited by 11

Making the Past Relevant

Bria, R. E., & Carranza, E. K. C. (2015) · Advances in Archaeological Practice · doi:10.7183/2326-3768.3.3.208 · Cited by 11

Undisciplining Archaeological Ethics

Shepherd, N. (2014) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-1-4939-1689-4_2 · Cited by 11

Are We Postcolonial Yet? Tales from the Battlefield

Hamilakis, Y. (2012) · Archaeologies · doi:10.1007/s11759-012-9200-5 · Cited by 12

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

Guindon, F. (2015) · Journal of Material Culture · doi:10.1177/1359183514566415 · Cited by 12

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

Challis, S. (2018) · African Archaeological Review · doi:10.1007/s10437-018-9299-x · Cited by 11

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

Hutchings, R. M., & Dent, J. (2017) · Archaeologies · doi:10.1007/s11759-017-9311-0 · Cited by 12

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

Harrison, R. (2011) · Archaeological Dialogues · doi:10.1017/s1380203811000250 · Cited by 10

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

Gorman, J. M. (2011) · Museum Management and Curatorship · doi:10.1080/09647775.2011.566714 · Cited by 10

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

Baraldi, S. B., Shoup, D. D., & Zan, L. (2017) · International Journal of Cultural Policy · doi:10.1080/10286632.2017.1343307 · Cited by 10

An Emerging Archaeology of the Nazi Era

Bernbeck, R. (2018) · Annual Review of Anthropology · doi:10.1146/annurev-anthro-102317-045743 · Cited by 10

Itineraries, iconoclasm, and the pragmatics of heritage

Bauer, A. A. (2020) · Journal of Social Archaeology · doi:10.1177/1469605320969097 · Cited by 11

Communities and Ethics in the Heritage Debates

Colwell, C., & Joy, C. (2015) · Global Heritage · doi:10.1002/9781394261154.ch5 · Cited by 10

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

Riggs, C. R. (2010) · KIVA · doi:10.1179/kiv.2010.76.2.010 · Cited by 9

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

Matthews, C. N. (2009) · The Public Historian · doi:10.1525/tph.2009.31.2.79 · Cited by 13

Ethics, Capitalism and Public Archaeology in Brazil

Robrahn-González, E. M. (2016) · doi:10.4324/9781315434216-17 · Cited by 14

Archaeology for the People: the Ethics of Public Archeology

Wildesen, L. E., & Witherspoon, Y. T. (1978)

Arqueología y Capitalismo

García, J. M. V., & Manuel, J. (2019)

The Politics of Archaeology

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