Almost Archaeology
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Almost Archaeology is a daughter page of Love Archaeology Magazine, created by former editor Adrián Maldonado. The mission is to find meaning in pop culture archaeology and explore the materality of pop culture.
Almost Archaeology
4y ago
By Kenny
Brophy (the Urban Prehistorian)
If a poll of Conservative members showed a
majority of them were druids, Boris would be straight down to Stonehenge to
dance naked for the seasons (Mark Steel, Independent, 28 March 2019)
Stanton Drew’s
stone circles may not vibrate as wildly in the English consciousness as their
easterly cousins at Stonehenge, however, they remain seriously impressive
pieces of Neolithic kit. (Weird Walk, The
Face 4.001)
Standing
Jacob
Rees-Mogg, standing in the General Election, is standing
in front of a standing stone. The parliamentary candidate (and current
incum ..read more
Almost Archaeology
5y ago
By Adrián
MaldonadoIn the last blog post, I realized that despite being
suffused with ancient artefacts, the wizarding world of Harry Potter didn’t seem
to have any archaeologists. Instead, wizards and witches live in a weirdly
eternal present with little sense of how things have come to be as they are, and
this ultimately caused them no end of trouble. So much of the story hinges on
prominent characters not knowing about artefacts and landscapes of
medieval origin that it seemed clear that the establishment of a Wizarding
Museum or department of Magical Material Culture Studies at Hogwarts ma ..read more
Almost Archaeology
5y ago
By Adrián MaldonadoThe Harry Potterverse is crawling with ancient artefacts and
old magic. That doesn’t make it a story about archaeology as such – there is
very little effort from the protagonists to do more than treasure-hunt (and in
at least one case, tomb-raid) to collect and then destroy these artefacts. In one sense,
the Harry Potter cycle is a parable of Fantastic Antiquities and How to Break
Them. Tom Riddle, Tomb Raider (source)Which is why I haven’t felt the need to do an ‘archaeology
of Harry Potter’ post on this blog. But then I went back to the books again.
Well, sort of. I am luc ..read more