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archaeologists collect and organize
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history focused on what happened in the past
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consider the archaeological as an adjective
archaeological processes
an archaeological sensibility
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connecting past and present
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the artists in the exhibition
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Irene Kopelman
we attend to the fractal mundanity of the earth, displace, re-present
Iratxe Jaio and Klaas van Gorkum
Roman shards attesting to ancient Basque ethnicity?
archaeological dynamics
is this the way it was?
it happened here place/event
what becomes of what was
staging evidence at a scene of crime anything might be evidence
sorting things out
the abjection of entropy
what to do when you visit a place
figure and ground what actually matters?
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why is it important to celebrate the archaeological imagination?
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making and connecting past-present-futures is a key
aspect of our agency and identity
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so much more than an attenuated historical and academic discourse
this is what happened
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