Modern Materials: The proceedings of CHAT Oxford 2009

This, the eighth volume in the series, brings together papers from the seventh CHAT Conference (2009), held at Keble College, Oxford on the theme of 'Modern Materials'. Contents: Introduction: Materials Modern (Laura McAtackney & Brent Fortenberry); 2) Fields of Artefacts: Archaeologies of Contemporary Scientific Discovery (Matt Edgeworth); 3) An Archaeological Metaphysics of Care. On Heritage Ecologies, Epistemography and the Isotopy of the Past(s) (Timothy Webmoor); 4) The Realities of the Past: Archaeology, Object-Orientations, Pragmatology (Christopher Witmore); 5) The Workman Laid Down his Tools - Approaches to the Recording and Analysis of Artefactual Remains in 19th and 20th Century Workshops (Chris Hewitson); 6) Hoarding, Re-using and Disposing: Domestic Repositories for Transient Objects (Tom Fisher); 7) Fort Santo Domingo: From a Cannonball to a Sea