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  • The World after Thor Heyerdahl: Challenges to Archaeology in the Twenty-First Century

  • Nina Witoszek
  • Journal:
    European Journal of Archaeology / Volume 15 / Issue 1 / 2012
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    25 January 2017, pp. 146-151
    Print publication:
    2012

  • Archaeology has been traditionally looked at as a science which reconstructs human history and evolution through the study of material objects. This contribution revisits archaeology as a discipline which revives national pasts, and thus partakes in generating myths of roots and identity. In the world ‘after Thor Heyerdahl' – plunged in environmental crisis and haunted by economic collapse of many communities – the hunger for these myths is bound to intensify. I argue that today, especially, there is a need for archaeology in ‘Thor Heyerdahls' ’ sense: one which would illuminate the unity of mankind and emphasize the imperative of reclaiming nature as human habitat.