What is this thing called Historical Archaeology?

  • Sandra Montón Subías ICREA/Dpto. de Humanidades. Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF)
  • Luis J. Abejez LAB-PAT C, Red IBERTUR -Universitat de Barcelona (UB)
Keywords: Historical Archaeology, Prehistory, Methodological Convergence, Modern World.

Abstract

Historical archaeology, in its narrow temporal sense -as an archaeology of the emergence and subsequent evolution of the Modern world- is steadily taking pace in Spanish academia. This paper aims at provoking a more robust debate through understanding how Spanish historical archaeology is placed in the international scene and some of its more relevant particularities. In so doing, the paper also stresses the strong links that have united historical and prehistorical archaeology since its inception, both in relation to the ontological, epistemological and methodological definition of the first as to the influence of socio-political issues in the latter. Such reflection is partly a situated reflection from prehistory as one of the paper’s authors has been a prehistorian for most of her professional life.

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Montón Subías S. y J. Abejez L. (2015). What is this thing called Historical Archaeology?. Complutum, 26(1), 11-35. https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_CMPL.2015.v26.n1.49338
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