Title:
Archaeology is changing, slowly. But it's still too tied up in colonial practices.
Authors:
Robyn Humphreys, June Bam-Hutchison & Rebecca Ackermann (all from the University of Cape Town)
Published:
The Conversation, 27 May 2020
https://theconversation.com/archaeology-is-changing-slowly-but-its-still-too-tied-up-in-colonial-practices-133243
From the article:
"There are some moves towards recognising archaeology’s colonial history. Some European nations have begun to return items taken from the African continent by archaeologists. Contemporary archaeologists also do a much better job than Indiana did, trying to understand a site and its social context.
The work we’re doing alongside other scholars at the University of Cape Town’s Human Evolution Research Institute in South Africa is trying, among other things, to address the legacies of racism and colonialism in archaeology and related sciences."