Archaeology, the Anthropocene, and the Hypanthropocene

Authors

  • Christopher Witmore National Humanities Center

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/jca.v1i1.128

Keywords:

archaeology, anthropocene, hypanthropocene

Author Biography

  • Christopher Witmore, National Humanities Center

    Christopher Witmore is Associate Professor of Archaeology and Classics at Texas Tech University. His main research interests include: Mediterranean Archaeology; especially Southern Greece; things and the new materialisms; landscape and chorography; the history of archaeology; science and technology studies; and media. He is co-author of Archaeology: The Discipline of Things (2012), co-editor of Archaeology in the Making (2013), and co-editor of the Routledge Archaeological Orientations series with Gavin Lucas.

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Published

2014-09-23

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 1 (2014)

Section

Archaeology of the Anthropocene

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How to Cite

Witmore, C. (2014). Archaeology, the Anthropocene, and the Hypanthropocene. Journal of Contemporary Archaeology, 1(1), 128-132. https://doi.org/10.1558/jca.v1i1.128