Disrupting the heritage of place: practising counter-archaeologies at Dumby, Scotland

The notion of counter-archaeology is echoed by the opposing faces of the volcanic plug of Dumbarton Rock, Scotland. On the one side is the 'official' heritage of Dumbarton Castle, with its upstanding seventeenth-century military remains and underlying occupation evidence dating back to at...

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Veröffentlicht in:World archaeology 2017-05, Vol.49 (3), p.372-387
Hauptverfasser: Hale, Alex, Fisher, Alison, Hutchinson, John, Jeffrey, Stuart, Jones, Sian, Maxwell, Mhairi, Stewart Watson, John
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:The notion of counter-archaeology is echoed by the opposing faces of the volcanic plug of Dumbarton Rock, Scotland. On the one side is the 'official' heritage of Dumbarton Castle, with its upstanding seventeenth-century military remains and underlying occupation evidence dating back to at least the eighth century ad. On the other side lies a landscape of climbing, bouldering and post-industrial abandonment. This paper develops counter-archaeology through the climbing traditions and boulder problems at Dumbarton Rock and brings to the surface marginalized forms of heritage. Climbers and archaeologists have co-authored the paper as part of a collaborative project, which challenges the binary trope of researcher and researched and provides a model for a collaborative, co-designed and co-produced counter-archaeology.
ISSN:0043-8243
1470-1375
DOI:10.1080/00438243.2017.1333923