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Making Archaeology Public. A View from the Mediterranean, Eastern Europe and Beyond

The sixth issue of Ex Novo explores how ‘peripheral’ regions currently approach both the practice and theory of public archaeology placing particular emphasis on usually underrepresented regions of Eastern and Central Europe, the Mediterranean and beyond.

Author: Maja Gori, Alessandro Pintucci, Martina Revello Lami (eds)
Date: 29 December 2021
Links: Website of the publisher

In English-speaking and Northern European countries, the perception of archaeology as a common good was widely spread even before the actual formalization of Public Archaeology as a specific curriculum offered by several universities. Not surprisingly, such an earlier interest led to the development of a markedly north-eurocentric perspective on the topic, which keeps steering much of the current reflection on Public Archaeology despite the emergence of multiple and alternative standpoints on the matter, further deepening the great divide between the archaeologies of Northern and Southern countries.

The second part of this issue, content-wise the richest published so far, is dedicated to contributions not directly related to the theme of public archaeology, followed by the traditional reviews and interviews section.

The third and final part of this volume features a series of interviews held in March 2021 within the framework of the Italian Confederation of Archaeologists (CIA) Annual Meeting. Being deeply rooted in the aims and scopes of the confederation, Ex Novo took this opportunity to pose several pressing questions to scholars who inspired and still steer the editorial choices of this journal, namely: Felipe Criado-Boado, Yannis Hamilakis, Cornelius Holtorf, Lynn Meskell and Elisabeth Nicklasson.