An urgency compels us to engage how archaeology relates to contemporary situations and future dilemmas as citizens anxiously contemplate their futures. We see “crowd‐sourced” efforts to define pressing questions. A welter of theoretical approaches promises new insight into our relationally configured worlds. We couple awareness of the situated character of knowledge with a commitment to its empirical grounding. In light of this contemporary frame, I explore principles of an “effective archaeology” that imagines its “impacts” beyond narrow “uses.” By attending to how we make facts, archives, and narratives; by placing Western knowledge in productive dialogue with knowledge grounded in other epistemologies; and by embracing a disciplinary responsibility to expand and enlarge imaginings of futures through evidentially robust and critically engaged practice, effective archaeologies hold promise to build toward more equitable futures. [archaeology, epistemology, ontology, knowledge production, collaboration]

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将“有效考古”整合到公平的未来

迫在眉睫的是，当公民急切地思考自己的未来时，我们不得不从事考古学与现代形势和未来困境的联系。我们看到“众包”努力定义了紧迫的问题。理论方法的飞速发展有望为我们的关系配置世界带来新的见识。我们将对知识的固有特征的认识与对经验基础的承诺相结合。根据这一当代框架，我探索了“有效考古学”的原理，该原理想象其在狭窄的“用途”之外的“影响”。通过关注我们如何制作事实，档案和叙述；通过将西方知识与其他认识论基础的知识进行富有成效的对话；通过承担纪律责任，通过证据充沛，批判性强的实践来扩大和扩大对未来的想象，有效的考古学有望向更加公平的未来发展。[考古学，认识论，本体论，知识生产，合作]