Archaeology at Home - Notes on Things, Life and Time - Hein B. Bjerck
My Father's Things
Archaeology at Home - Notes on Things, Life and Time - Hein B. Bjerck
Hein B. Bjerck [+]
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
Hein B. Bjerck is professor in archaeology (research and teaching) at the NTNU University Museum in Trondheim. His research is focussed on early marine foraging (Marine Ventures project), and large scale excavation projects (Ormen Lange project). Bjerck is also involved in research on the recent past, and project member in Ruin Memories, After Discourse and Objects Matter.
Description
The Chapter elaborates on things and memories, how things emit memories, things and individual remembering, things on the move to the faceless archaeological record. The arena is the process of dealing with my father’s home after his abrupt passing in 2009 – that turned into some kind of field study that revealed the ‘insides’ of a home, his times, his life, and this peculiar entanglement of things, humans and happenings.