We return to Europe in the third edition of our series investigating the state of post-medieval archaeology in non-English speaking countries, with a focus on Belgium, Poland and Portugal. Reading through these essays, we are struck by how quickly our subdiscipline has expanded in the past few decades and how the value of post-medieval archaeology is being recognized by both state officials and the public across Europe. While research focus, dissemination activities and the ways data are collected may differ from one region to the next, as post-medieval archaeology partly grows out of the local traditions in which they are practised, there is increasing international participation bringing various projects to the attention of the global archaeological community. Dominant research themes are very much a result of local interests and a response to regional historical narratives and circumstances. For example, Second World War archaeology and projects related to the creation of the Polish state were at first the most common post-medieval archaeological interests in that country as nation-building type research drew funding and public interest. Similarly, Portuguese research appears to be increasingly dealing with its colonial legacies. No work is conducted in a bubble, and post-medieval archaeologists across the regions included here are engaging with and pushing forward the global development of our practice. It is gratifying to see that, in all three jurisdictions, some form of legislation is in place by various governing authorities to ensure recording and protection of post-medieval heritage, thus recognizing its value. As a result, we are seeing an exponential amount of data being produced, often collected by commercial archaeology units (e.g. Belgium), providing many opportunities for research. University departments are recognizing the potential for research as more post-medieval archaeologists are hired and more projects are run (e.g. Portugal). Local communities are increasingly included in research projects and engaging with their heritage in meaningful ways (e.g. Poland). In all cases, dissemination of research results is not limited to local journals but includes papers in major international journals and presentations to societies like our own. Post-medieval archaeological research from non-English speaking European countries is engaging with and productively challenging current discourse within our wider discipline, which gives us a great deal of hope for the future. Despite this hopeful theme, most of the papers contributing to this young series over the years are written with a hint of defensiveness, as if the authors feel the need to continuously prove the inherent value of their discipline. This is unsurprising, as many of us have felt the pressure, at one time or another, to justify the need to investigate material culture when text-based evidence also exists or when archaeological deposits were formed close to or within living memory. Endless words have been spent over the last few decades debating the relevancy of ‘later-period archaeology’, and we are not about to address it here. However, this collection of essays is increasingly pointing to the fact that

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全球中世纪后/历史考古学：2019年全球发生了什么？

在本系列的第三版中，我们返回欧洲，主要研究非英语国家的中世纪后考古学状况，重点是比利时，波兰和葡萄牙。通过阅读这些论文，我们对我们的学科在过去几十年中发展得如此之快以及欧洲国家官员和公众如何认识到中世纪后考古学的价值感到震惊。尽管研究重点，传播活动和收集数据的方式可能在一个地区与另一个地区有所不同，但由于中世纪后考古在某种程度上是从实践当地考古传统中发展出来的，因此国际参与度不断提高，引起了各种项目的关注全球考古界。主要的研究主题很大程度上是当地利益以及对地区历史叙述和环境的回应。例如，第二次世界大战的考古学和与波兰国家创建有关的项目起初是该国最常见的中世纪后考古学利益，因为国家建设类型研究吸引了资金和公共利益。同样，葡萄牙的研究似乎正越来越多地涉及其殖民遗产。泡沫中没有开展任何工作，这里的各个地区的中世纪后考古学家都在参与并推动着我们实践的全球发展。令人欣慰的是，在所有三个管辖区中，各个管理机构都制定了某种形式的立法，以确保记录和保护中世纪后的遗产，从而认识到它的价值。结果，我们看到正在产生指数级的数据，通常是由商业考古部门（例如比利时）收集的，这为研究提供了许多机会。随着越来越多的中世纪中世纪考古学家的聘用和更多项目的开展，大学部门正在意识到研究的潜力（例如葡萄牙）。越来越多的地方社区被纳入研究项目，并以有意义的方式与他们的遗产互动（例如，波兰）。在所有情况下，研究成果的传播不仅限于本地期刊，还包括主要国际期刊上的论文以及对像我们这样的社会的介绍。来自不讲英语的欧洲国家的中世纪后考古学研究正在我们更广泛的学科范围内与当前的话语互动并产生富有挑战性的结果，这使我们对未来充满希望。尽管这一主题充满希望，但多年来为该年轻系列作出贡献的大多数论文都带有防御性暗示，似乎作者感到有必要不断证明其学科的内在价值。这不足为奇，因为我们许多人一次或一次都感到有压力证明有必要在存在基于文本的证据时或在生活记忆附近或内部形成考古沉积时调查物质文化。在过去的几十年里，人们花了无休止的话来辩论“后期考古学”的相关性，我们在这里不打算解决这个问题。但是，这些论文集越来越多地指出以下事实：多年来，为这一年轻系列作贡献的大多数论文都带有防御性的暗示，似乎作者感到有必要不断证明其学科的内在价值。这不足为奇，因为我们许多人一次或一次都感到有压力证明有必要在存在基于文本的证据时或在生活记忆附近或内部形成考古沉积时调查物质文化。在过去的几十年里，人们花了无休止的话来辩论“后期考古学”的相关性，我们在这里不打算解决这个问题。但是，这些论文集越来越多地指出以下事实：多年来，为这一年轻系列作贡献的大多数论文都带有防御性的暗示，似乎作者感到有必要不断证明其学科的内在价值。这不足为奇，因为我们很多人一次或一次都感到有压力，证明当基于文本的证据也存在或当考古保存物靠近或存在于生活记忆中时，有必要调查物质文化。在过去的几十年里，人们花了无休止的话来辩论“后期考古学”的相关性，我们在这里不打算解决这个问题。但是，这些论文集越来越多地指出以下事实：这不足为奇，因为我们许多人一次或一次都感到有压力证明有必要在存在基于文本的证据时或在生活记忆附近或内部形成考古沉积时调查物质文化。在过去的几十年里，人们花了无休止的话来辩论“后期考古学”的相关性，我们在这里不打算解决这个问题。但是，这些论文集越来越多地指出以下事实：这不足为奇，因为我们许多人一次或一次都感到有压力证明有必要在存在基于文本的证据时或在生活记忆附近或内部形成考古沉积时调查物质文化。在过去的几十年里，人们花了无休止的话来辩论“后期考古学”的相关性，我们在这里不打算解决这个问题。但是，这些论文集越来越多地指出以下事实：而且我们不会在这里解决。但是，这些论文集越来越多地指出以下事实：而且我们不会在这里解决。但是，这些论文集越来越多地指出以下事实：