During Fall semester 2011, students in AR480/780 were asked to summarize the point of several articles in a haiku. One of the articles was “Modern Disturbances: On the Ambiguities of Archaeology,” by Gavin Lucas. It appeared in the journal Modernism/modernity 11 (2004), pp. 109-120. Here are their haikus for Lucas’ article.
| Archaeology; It’s more than just the long past, It is modern life. – Ashley Smith |
Why value the past? Prehistory, illusion? Culture of stuff reigns. – Adam DiBattista |
Archaeology: creation of new presents, modernist project. – Laura Heath |
| Is yesterday less important than one thousand years ago or not? – Ian Shepherd |
Prehistory shows Not a concept lost in time But a new present. – Ashley Rees-Jones |
Prehistory or History is found in text. Or not. It’s a rock. – Gretchen Pineo |
| No single event demarcates then from now and old’s as good as new. – Bree Evans |
Past and present. How should we divide them? With slash or hyphen? – Gretchen Pineo |
Culture and text split; Science translates history. With transparency? – Jennifer Greene |
| Archaeology studies the past through objects. When does the past end? – Ian Shepherd |
Archaeology Understanding then and now In the modern world. – Catherine Scott |
The past through text is not for us. We see the past through pot, bone, and dust. – Ian Shepherd |
| Archaeology Yesterday or yesteryear Redefine the field. – Alice Crowe |
Power of the field Endless possibilities Focus on present. – Teddy Mazurek |
In the past, the past was tradition but now it’s a charged present. – Andrea Berlin |
| Spurning tradition looking for new ways to learn about past and present. – Preston Weir |
Archaeology – problems with modernity use analogy. – Brandon Olson |
Today’s old knife will be tomorrow’s old stone axe for now it’s just junk. – Andrea Berlin |
| Archaeology: A field with many limits. What of the present? – Emily Christian |
What is history? Modern archaeology: All-encompassing. – Kevin Velasquez |
Study of the past From prehistory to just A second ago? -Nicole Estey |
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