Contemporary archaeology seems to be marked by a questioning of the limits of interpretation, pushing for a radical change in the way we conceptualize our engagement with the past, the material and the world we live in: from archaeologies of affect, to new materialist approaches or calls to political engagement, practitioners seem to experiment with new questions and theoretical tools. As Artur Ribeiro points out in his contribution to the following collection of papers, ‘“new” has become the new normal’. But the question is, what are we trying to do with these experiments and what do we expect from archaeology in a world that is undergoing major changes and challenges?

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我们想要什么样的考古？介绍

当代考古学似乎以质疑解释的局限性为标志，推动我们对与过去、物质和我们生活的世界的接触的概念化方式发生根本变化：从情感考古学到新的唯物主义方法或呼吁政治参与，从业者似乎在尝试新的问题和理论工具。正如 Artur Ribeiro 在他对以下论文集的贡献中指出的那样，““新”已成为新常态。但问题是，我们试图用这些实验做什么？在一个正在经历重大变化和挑战的世界中，我们对考古学有什么期望？