Perry, Sara;
Simandiraki-Grimshaw, Anna;
Morgan, Colleen;
Taylor, James S;
Fadioui, Aida;
Foket, Lise;
Hacıgüzeller, Piraye;
... Clough, Alice; + view all
(2025)
Towards New Futures for Archaeological Data Production: Challenging Archaeonormativity through Storytelling.
Journal of Field Archaeology
10.1080/00934690.2025.2504235.
(In press).
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Abstract
Archaeologists create vast amounts of specialized data, which are often difficult to access, maintain, and reuse, even for practitioners themselves. In this article, we explore the implication of professional practices of data production in fueling archaeonormativity—i.e., the naturalization of behaviors and structures in archaeology that strip it of affect and meaning and that deny human (and non-human) agency and equity. We contend that storytelling with archaeological data-making, grounded in a narrative hermeneutic model, has promise for subverting the current archaeonormative establishment. Via experimentation on the cross-European Transforming Data Reuse in Archaeology project, we discuss the challenges of intervening in excavation and post-excavation activities through storytelling, from siloing of results to epistemic anxieties to destabilization of trust, leadership, and institutional authority. Nurturing creative, “story-critical” risk-taking in the course of archaeological data production may enable archaeologists to improve their own working contexts whilst also (re)distributing power inside and outside the profession.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Towards New Futures for Archaeological Data Production: Challenging Archaeonormativity through Storytelling |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/00934690.2025.2504235 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/00934690.2025.2504235 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent. |
| Keywords: | Storytelling; archaeological methodology; data; creativity; professionalism; trust; leadership |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Institute of Archaeology UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Institute of Archaeology > Institute of Archaeology Gordon Square |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10209092 |
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