What is Public Archaeology?
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In the ten years since Schadla-Hall’s (1999) outline of the subject, public archaeology has become firmly established as the focus of books, university courses, academic research and a dedicated journal. Nevertheless there is still a degree of uncertainty about the precise definition and delineation of public archaeology. In this short paper I outline my personal perspective of public archaeology as a practice of disciplinary critique focusing on the production and consumption of what I have termed archaeological ‘commodities’.
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- Authors
- Moshenska, G.
- Affiliations
- University College London (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Moshenska, Gabriel
- ORCID
- Moshenska, Gabriel
- Venue
- Present Pasts
- Publisher
- Ubiquity Press, Ltd.
- Published
- 2010-01-08
- Volume
- 1
- Issue
- 1
- ISSN
- 1759-2941 (ISSN-L)
- DOI
- 10.5334/pp.7
- OpenAlex
- W2138712978
- Cited by
- 47
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 4 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 3 · 2015: 5 · 2014: 3 · 2013: 6
- FWCI
- 133.11
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- diamond
- doi.org
- Locations
- Present Pasts (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
- Present Pasts (UCL Institute of Archaeology Heritage Studies Section) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Cultural Studies › Archaeology and Cultural Heritage
- Social Sciences › Anthropology › Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Archeology › Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation
- Keywords
- public archaeology, disciplinary critique
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