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DOCUMENT Full-Text Monika Reppo.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Post-medieval Archaeology and Pollution", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Glass production is and was an industry that exhausts natural resources. The destruction of forests surrounding early post-medieval glassworks in Europe was a given - the glassworks would often simply move to the next spot after depleting their resource of fuel and potash. The extraction of sand also had an environmental impact. The...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Riin Alatalu.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeology, Memory, and Politics in the 2020s: Changes in Methods, Narratives, and Access", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. We know from all periods of history that political turns are accompanied by re-evaluation of heritage, especially statues commemorating political leaders or victims or heroes of wars and political crimes. The Russian war against Ukraine provoked debates on Soviet monuments in all...