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Transit, Transition: Excavating J641 VUJ

2009; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 19; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1017/s0959774309000018

1474-0540

Greg Bailey, Cassie Newland, Anna Karin Nilsson, John Schofield, Steve Davis, Adrian Myers,

Archaeological Research and Protection

In July 2006 archaeologists from the University of Bristol and Atkins Heritage embarked on a contemporary archaeology project with a difference. We ‘excavated’ an old (1991) Ford Transit van, used by archaeologists and later by works and maintenance teams at the Ironbridge Museum. The object: to see what can be learnt from a very particular, common and characteristic type of contemporary place; to establish what archaeologists and archaeology can contribute to understanding the way society, and specifically we as archaeologists, use and inhabit these places; and to challenge and critique archaeologies of the contemporary past. In this report we describe our excavation and situate it within a wider debate about research practice in contemporary archaeology.