2019/12/01 by Richard M. Hutchings, Marina La Salle · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Earth and Planetary Sciences · #Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation #Conservation Techniques and Studies #Archaeological Research and Protection
paper · doi:10.15184/aqy.2019.139
The primary objective of sustainable archaeology is to maintain the profession of archaeology—that is, to sustain itself. An effort to rebrand the discipline as virtuous, sustainable archaeology is self-serving and reflects larger institutional anxieties around an unethical past and an uncertain future. An example of futurist rhetoric and doublespeak, sustainable archaeology exists because archaeology is unsustainable.