The question of the Anthropocene has gained increased notoriety among archaeologists recently. Precisely because of that, it is in need of thorough critique. The aim of this article is not to rule out the concept of Anthropocene, but to point out some of its problems: the relationship of Anthropocenic discourses with the emergence of an all-embracing biopolitical science; the inadequacies of the term, which blames all humans equally for a specific effect of modernity and capitalism; its failure to accept a diversity of origins (but also the problem of accepting overly deep origins), and the shortcomings of adopting a geological framework for archaeology. I thus suggest that the discipline has to define its own eras – also for the contemporary period – and that the Age of Destruction could be an apt archaeological counterpart for the Anthropocene. One of the benefits of outlining an archaeological era is that it brings modernity and capitalism back to the fore, and with them issues of power and conflict that have been largely lost in recent post-anthropocentric debates.

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超越人类世：定义毁灭时代

人类世的问题最近在考古学家中越来越臭名昭著。正因为如此，它才需要彻底的批判。本文的目的不是排除人类世的概念，而是指出它的一些问题：人类世话语与包罗万象的生命政治科学的出现之间的关系；该术语的不足之处，它把现代性和资本主义的特定影响都归咎于所有人；它未能接受起源的多样性（但也存在接受过深起源的问题），以及采用考古学地质框架的缺点。因此，我建议该学科必须定义自己的时代——也为当代时期——而毁灭时代可能是人类世的恰当考古对应物。