Entangled Pasts and Futures: Historical Archaeologies in and of the Indian Ocean

Summary

This paper explores new approaches to conducting archaeology and making histories in and of the Indian Ocean. First, it outlines previous practices and uses of archaeology in the region. Secondly, it suggests "questions that count" as avenues to re-representing aspects of communities and their entanglements across this aquacentric space and through time. In part, we employ more recent pasts and sources to unveil deeper histories with contemporary implications for this cosmopolitan region and its people. The content of our paper draws from our experiences as archaeologists on opposite sides of the ocean – Australia and eastern Africa – to demonstrate the potentials of historical archaeology.

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