Failure on the frontier: a response to Price & Jaffe

• Autores: Paul Kitching, Robert Witcher
• Localización: Antiquity, ISSN 0003-598X, Vol. 97, Nº 396, 2023, págs. 1613-1616
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Price and Jaffe (2023) argue that acknowledging failure humanises the past. It can also serve as a lens through which to reflect on archaeological reasoning. Here, we turn to the Roman world, and the frontier of northern Britain in particular, to consider how intentionality, distributed agency and moral judgement intersect with the recognition of failure in the past—and with the failures of archaeologists themselves.