Introduction and Definitions
Space, place, and architecture have a rich and varied history within historical archaeology.
Because Historical Archaeology span over 500 years, much of the data used combine not only artifacts and features but documents and buildings/the built environment as well as folklore, myth, oral history, and ethnography. The influence of Western, capitalist, and colonialist processes remains a dominant undercurrent, and while much research of the past has been filtered through this Western perspective, a renaissance in indigenous archaeologies and the insertion of indigenous perspectives stands to challenge our scientifically grounded constructions of space and place, and with good reason. While many historical archaeologists have been conscious of indigenous epistemologies, it is only within the past 20 years that both indigenous archaeologists and archaeologies have established themselves and their approach in their own right.
Archaeological research attempts to...
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Broughton Anderson, C. (2020). Space, Place, and Architecture in Historical Archaeology. In: Smith, C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30018-0_2924
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