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Online Bibliographies
Later C20 Archaeology Projects
< Bletchley Park (English Heritage) Cold War Archaeology (English Heritage) Common Ground - Rediscovering Greenham's Cold War Landscape (University of Southampton) Disinter/est - Digging up our Childhood (University of Southampton) Forensic Archaeology of the Disappeared, Argentina (University of Cambridge) Hull Fair Project (National Fairground Archive, Sheffield University) Recent Military Heritage (English Heritage) Historical Archaeology at The Maze, Northern Ireland (University of Bristol) Space Archaeology - Man in Space (National Park Service, USA) Space Exploration Archaeology Project (University of New England, Australia) Spadeadam project (English Heritage and Louise K. Wilson) Multi-period Archaeology projects with significant later C20 focus Alderley Sandhills Project (University of Manchester) Archaeology of Rural Vehicle and Machinery Assemblages (Flinders University, Australia) Cyprus/West Oakland Project, California, USA (Sonoma State University) - includes 1960s Landscape Archaeology and Community in Devon - An Oral History Approach (University of Exeter) The 20th century - North East Regional Research Framework for the Historic Environment Organisations with current C20 activities Association for Industrial Archaeology CHAT - Contemporary and Historical Archaeology in Theory English Heritage Characterisation Team Inforce - International Forensic Centre of Excellence for the Investigation of Genocide Society for Historical Archaeology (USA) Society for Post Medieval Archaeology (UK) University of Bristol - Department of Archaeology and Anthropology University College. London - Department of Anthropology University of Southampton - Department of Archaeology Information/Discussion Lists and Weblogs CHA - Email list for news and discussion in contemporary and historical archaeology Michael Shanks weblog (2003-present) Events ASA 2005 - Association of Social Anthropologists. University of Aberdeen. 4-7 April 2005 Early 20th Century Archaeology (AD 1900-1950) Defence of Britain Project (Council for British Archaeology) Incavation Berlin-Schliemannstraße - Cornelius Holtorf Traumwerk (Michael Shanks/Stanford University) Wayback Machine (Internet Archive) Further Reading in Later 20th Century Archaeology Bradley, A., V. Buchli, G. Fairclough, D. Hicks, J. Miller and J. Schofield 2004. Change and Creation: The Later 20th century Landscape. London: English Heritage Buchli, V. and G. Lucas (eds) 2001. Archaeologies of the Contemporary Past. London: Routledge. Cocroft, W.D. and R.J.C. Thomas 2003. Cold War: Building for Nuclear Confrontation. London: English Heritage. Crossland, Z. 2000 Buried lives: forensic archaeology and Argentina's disappeared. Archaeological Dialogues 7(2): 146-159. Finn, C.A. 2001. Artifacts: an archaeologist's year in Silicon Valley. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Graves-Brown, P. (ed.) 2000. Matter, Materiality and Modern Culture. London: Routledge. Hayden, D. 2004. A Field Guide to Sprawl. London: W. W. Norton Hicks, D. 2003. Archaeology Unfolding: Diversity and the Loss of Isolation. Oxford Journal of Archaeology 22(3):215-229. Hicks, D. and M.C. Beaudry (eds) forthcoming. Introduction: Defining Historical
Archaeology. In D. Hicks and M.C. Beaudry (eds) The Cambridge Companion to Historical Archaeology. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press. Hicks, D. and N. Jeffries 2004. Biographies of London Life: the archaeology of Londoners and their things, AD 1600-2000. London: Museum of London. (Research Matters Occasional Publication Series 3) Pearson, M. and M. Shanks 2001. Theatre/Archaeology. London: Routledge. Schofield, J 2004. The Archaeology of the 20th Century (requires MS Word) Online paper for Institute of Field Archaeologists' Conference 2004
Schofield, J., Beck, C.M. and Drollinger, H. 2003. The archaeology of opposition: Greenham Common and Peace Camp Nevada. Conservation Bulletin 44.
Schnapp, A. (ed.) 1997. Une Archéologie du Passé Récent. Paris: Maison des Sciences de l’Homme.
Shanks, Michael, David Platt and William K. Rathje 2004. The Perfume of Garbage - Modenity and the Archaeological. Modernism/Modernity 11. [includes discussion of archaeology and the September 11 terrorist attacks]
Stratton, M. and B. Trinder 2000. Twentieth century industrial archaeology. London: Spon Press.
Symonds, Jim 2004. Historical Archaeology and the Recent Urban Past. International Journal of Heritage Studies. 10(1): 33-48