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DOCUMENT Citation Only Jonathan Gardner.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Post-medieval Archaeology and Pollution", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In this paper I explore changing valuations of oil shale waste – blaes– in West Lothian, Scotland. Around 150 million cubic metres of blaes remains here in vast heaps called bings, the remnants of a short-lived but globally significant oil industry, active between 1851 and 1962. While the bings are relatively nontoxic, they are...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christina Rosén. Risto Nurmi. Timo Ylimaunu. Göran Tagesson.

Waste in a town may be understood both as a problem to solve, and as a valuable resource. In some Early Modern Swedish towns, waste bins and pits were common, varying in size and localization in different plots (some hidden, some in full view), but in other towns bins and pits were totally absent and waste was dispersed around the plot, with concentrations in specific locations. In some places, waste was probably removed from plots to use as fertilizer on nearby fields and gardens. These...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jonathan Gardner.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeology of Urban Dissonance: Violence, Friction, and Change" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper examines how (post)industrial spaces become labelled as disused ‘wastelands’, or ‘brownfields’ in processes of urban redevelopment. Taking a broad overview of different examples across sites in Edinburgh and London (UK) I ask how understandings of waste and value are produced and contested through...