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Slow Archaeology: Technology, Efficiency, and Archaeological Work
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Slow archaeology situates contemporary, digital archaeological practice both in the historical tradition of the modern discipline of archaeology and within a discourse informed by calls for Taylorist efficiency. Rather than rejecting the use of digital tools, slow archaeology calls for archaeology to embrace a spirit of critical engagement with the rapidly changing technological landscape in the field. This contribution draws upon lessons from the popular "slow moment" and academic discussions of modernity and speed to consider the impact that the rapid adoption of digital tools has on archaeological practice and knowledge production. Slow archaeology pays particular attention to how digital tools fragment the process of archaeological documentation, potentially deskill fieldwork by relying on digital (Latourian) "blackbox" methods, and erode the sense of place so crucial to archaeological claims of provenience. The result of this critical attention to digital practices is neither a condemnation of new tools nor an unabashed celebration of their potential to transform the discipline, but a call to adopt new technologies and methods in a deliberate way that situates archaeological knowledge production in the realm of field practice.
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Originating simultaneously within both the Classical Mediterranean world and war-torn heritage sites in more recent European history, slow archaeology provides a space where sharing archaeological expertise and protecting cultural knowledge is prioritized over the need to collect excavation data as quickly and efficiently as possible.
“Originating simultaneously within both the Classical Mediterranean world (Caraher 2013, 2016, 2019) and war-torn heritage sites in more recent European history (Carr 2010, 2018; Carr and Sturdy Colls 2016), slow archaeology provides a space where sharing archaeological expertise and protecting cultural knowledge is prioritized over the need to collect excavation data as quickly and efficiently as”
From Creating Community and Engaging Community: The Foundations of the Estate Little Princess Archaeology Project in St. Croix, United States Virgin Islands (2022) · cites this paper as Caraher 2016
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Flewellen, A. O., Odewale, A., Dunnavant, J., Jones, A., & White, W. (2022) · International Journal of Historical Archaeology · doi:10.1007/s10761-021-00600-z · Cited by 43
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- Caraher, W.
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- The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota
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- The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota
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- 2016
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