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A Simple Toy Soldier: An Exploration of Aritfacts as Metatext (2023)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Artifacts are More Than Enough: Recentering the Artifact in Historical Archaeology", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Artifacts can help us build narratives, understand motivations, decode culture, and even empathize with long-passed people. They are the material basis for our discipline and, in some ways, the thing that makes that discipline a unique avenue for exploring the past. Sometimes individual...