The World Is What It Is: The Role of Subjectivity and Personal Experience in Global Historical Archaeologies

Transatlantic Currents: Exploring the Past, Present, and Future of Global Historical Archaeology

“…However, this situation has now been almost completely reversed, to the extent that there is growing concern amongst professionals about the erosion of material culture knowledge, exacerbated in recent years by the untimely loss of two key finds specialists, Geoff Egan (1951-2010) and Paul Courtney (1955-2013. This reversal in emphasis is owed in part to the influence of North American approaches, but also to the impact of the strength of post-processual approaches to interpretation that characterise teaching in a number of UK higher education institutions, which has produced a new generation of scholars willing and able to apply theoretical frameworks to their study.…”

An "out-of-the-way little place": Historical archaeology and globalisation at St Lawrence, Queensland, Australia

“…We now know that globalisation has significant roots in the past, but as Brooks (2013:2) observes, globalisation is not simply a "phenomenon of the past that impacts the archaeological record of the modern world…but is a living impact that continues to influence". The situation facing residents in St Lawrence today is reminiscent of that lived by its past inhabitants during the nineteenth century.…”