Clik here to view.
Building 500
by Timothy Webmoor Ever since the early antiquarians traipsed across the European countryside and less than gingerly applied their picks, spades and shovels to any number of large prehistoric barrows,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Ruins-in-the-making: Viðey in the bay of Reykjavík, Iceland
by Gavin Lucas This June, Gavin Lucas with Elín Hreiðarsdóttir and Gísli Pálsson conducted a short fieldwork season at the abandoned industrial village on the island of Viðey in the bay of Reykjavík,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Butte, America: ruination, reclamation, and the remainder
by Caitlin Desilvey I’m sitting in an apartment on the sixth floor of the Metals Bank building in Butte. Out the window to the east the city streets end abruptly at the rim of a mile-wide pit, a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Sværholt: Memories of a Northern War Site
by Bjørnar Olsen and Christopher Witmore Sværholt is a cape set between the wide fjords of Porsanger and Laksefjord in the northernmost Norwegian region of Finnmark (Figure 1). The cape exhibits the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Planning for the Unthinkable
by Mats Burström (with Alfredo González-Ruibal ) Frontispiece: Dining room. The blue colour on the wall is intended to imitate a blue sky. During the Cold War the fear for the unthinkable – a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Berkeley Pit, Butte Montana
by Tim LeCain High in the northern Rocky Mountains, at the headwaters of the Colombia River basin, the giant Berkely Pit copper mine marks one end of America’s largest government mandated toxic waste...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Ephemeral ruins, transient landscapes
by Alfredo González-Ruibal and Manuel Sánchez-Elipe We tend to think of ruins as something durable and solid. They are, in fact, defined as that which remains: a material core that is left after...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Back in Pyramiden, Svalbard
Text and photos by Elin Andreassen and Hein B. Bjerck In August 2011, Elin and Hein revisited Pyramiden, this time as “protagonists” for the German TV production “Moderne Ruinen”[i]. We also had an...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Turning to things – ontology, epistemology, and a case of metaphorism
by Marko Marila (University of Helsinki) The recent turn to things in archaeology for me is first and foremost a turn to realism in archaeology. With realism I refer to the kind of ontological and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Proximate Ruins and the Building 500 Project
by Timothy Webmoor How are Ruins? No doubt ruins are the stuff of the archaeological; abandoned, forgotten buildings and objects left to decay. And of course discovered, recovered and gazed at; traces...
View Article