ABSTRACT
The back-and-forth relationship between archaeology and anthropology has often involved nestling archaeology within the broader remit of the anthropological focus on people. Anthropology saved archaeology from cultural historical minutiae, from fossils and from being fossilized. The way Heidegger has been taken up in archaeology has been to remain focused on the human side of this human–thing set of interactions—on the human “being.” Archaeology produces places and histories that intrude into people’s lives. This production creates responsibilities that need to be dealt with in multidisciplinary teams. Archaeologists sprout material things from the ground that grow and multiply and decay so that they require regulation, management, and negotiation. Archaeology is a place-making discipline. It makes concrete places and things—and it also energizes these places and things with histories.
