Forum: Storage Wars,

Raiders of the Lost Ark, final scene

Forum, 'Storage wars Solving the Archaeological Curation Crisis?', Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies 3 (1) pp 42-80.

Morag M. Kersel ('Storage Wars: Solving the Archaeological Curation Crisis?'), Raz Kletter ('Storage Wars 1, Curation 0'), Neil Asher Silberman ('Is Every Sherd Sacred? Moving Beyond the Cult of Object-Centered Authenticity'), Jack Green ('Building Capacity, Sharing Knowledge'), Andrew Jamieson ('Developing Strategies for Sustainably Managing Archaeological Collections') Morag M. Kersel ('Rejoinder, An Issue of Ethics? Curation and the Obligations of Archaeology'). Something for everybody interested in portable antiquities to get their teeth into.

The challenge facing archaeology is storage. If we want to continue to excavate, we need to remain critical and reflective, not just about our research questions, but about our obligations to the very practice of fieldwork and the results of that research — the stuff we produce and what to do with it