Returning to where we have never been. Excavating the ruins of modernity

En Bjørnar Olsen y Þóra Pétursdóttir (eds.): Ruin Memories. Materialities, Aesthetics and the Archaeology of the Recent Past. Londres: Routledge, 2014.This chapter is divided into two parts. The first part deals with two theoretical concerns. My first concern has to do with how we know things as archaeologists working with the recent past. In particular, I am interested in the role of recognition and witnessing in the production of archaeological knowledge. My second concern has to do with time: I will explore, among other things, the particular politics of supermodern temporality, the temporal conundrum of the recent past, and the kind of time that emerges through an archaeological engagement with modern ruins. The second part puts to work the ideas developed in the previous sections through a case study — the vestiges of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)Peer reviewe

Contemporary Past, Archaeology of

[EN] General overview of the archaeology of the contemporary past.[ES] Visión general de la arqueología del pasado contemporáneo.Peer reviewe

Etnoarqueología de los abandonos en Galicia. El papel de la cultura material en una sociedad agraria en crisis

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Ernest Lluch (1937-2000), in memoriam.

The Catalan economist Ernest Lluch, killed by E.T.A. in November 2000 had an important performance in many aspects of the political and intellectual life in Catalonia and Spain. He also developed an important work in history, focusing his last investigations on the Catalan XVIII Century.The Catalan economist Ernest Lluch, killed by E.T.A. in November 2000 had an important performance in many aspects of the political and intellectual life in Catalonia and Spain. He also developed an important work in history, focusing his last investigations on the Catalan XVIII Century

Un askós ibicenco en Galicia: Notas sobre el carácter del comercio púnico en el noroeste ibérico

La reciente revisión de los materiales prerromanos del castro costero de A Lanzada (Pontevedra) ha permitido el descubrimiento, entre otras importaciones mediterráneas, de un askós púnico de Ibiza datable a fines del siglo III a.C. A la luz del hallazgo, se realiza una reflexión sobre la presencia púnica en la costa noroccidental atlántica de la Península

Arqueología de la Guerra Civil Española

En este artículo se presenta el dossier sobre arqueología de la Guerra Civil Española. Se revisarán brevemente tres temas que son cruciales para una aproximación arqueológica a los restos de la Guerra Civil y el régimen de Franco: el concepto de arqueología, patrimonio y políticas de la memoria.In this article, the dossier on the archaeology of the Spanish Civil War is introduced. Three main topics will be briefly reviewed that are crucial for an archaeological approach to the remains of the Civil War and the Franco Regime: archaeology itself, heritage, and memory politics