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The filth and the fury: 6 Denmark Street (London) and the Sex Pistols

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 November 2011

Paul Graves-Brown  and
John Schofield
Paul Graves-Brown
Affiliation:
188 Trallwm Road, Llwynhendy, Llanelli SA14 9ES, UK (Email: [email protected])
John Schofield
Affiliation:
2Department of Archaeology, University of York, King's Manor, York YO1 7EP, UK (Email: [email protected])
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Extract

In case readers are wondering whether this paper is written tongue in cheek — or with tongue sticking out — it is worth recalling that modern archaeology includes recent periods in its remit, and uses recent materiality to help understand more ancient times as well as a critique on modernity itself. Here the authors find graffiti left by a notorious group of popular musicians and probe it for social meaning as earnestly as students of cave art. Their archaeological study finds an underlying driver that is part political, part personal and therefore also part (anti-)heritage.

Keywords

Britaintwentieth centurygraffiticave art
Type
Research article
Information
Antiquity , Volume 85 , Issue 330 , December 2011 , pp. 1385 - 1401
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 2011

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