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Using an objects-based approach with a focus on arctic archaeology of WWII, this book attempts to unleash archaeology's potential by opting for a past that resists historical time and reveals the importance of a symmetrical archaeology approach to the past.
About the author
Bjørnar J. Olsen is professor of archaeology at UiT – The Arctic University of Norway. Olsen has long been central to theoretical archaeology though it is in his pioneering work in the new materialisms and contemporary archaeology that he has made his most important contributions. His books include, In Defense of Things: Archaeology and the Ontology of Objects (Rowman & Littlefield 2010), with Shanks, Webmoor and Witmore, Archaeology: The Discipline of Things (2012), with Pétursdottir (eds), Ruin Memories: Materiality, Aesthetics and the Archaeology of the Recent Past (2014), with Burström, DeSilvey and Þ. Pétursdóttir (eds), After discourse: Things, Affects, Ethics (2021) and with Farstadvoll and Godin (eds), Unruly Heritage: Archaeologies of the Anthropocene (2024, Bloomsbury).Christopher Witmore is President’s Research Professor of archaeology at Texas Tech University. He is known for blending in-depth engagements alongside objects with longstanding and pressing questions of human and nonhuman existence. Witmore is among a few archaeologists who have been instrumental in reorienting archaeology from an exclusive focus on a distant past, to a field of interventions into the present, past, and future. His recent books include Objects Untimely (Polity, 2023), with Graham Harman, and Old Lands. A Chorography of the Eastern Morea, Greece (2020).
