Failure on the frontier: a response to Price & Jaffe

Kitching, Paul; Witcher, Robert

Abstract

Price and Jaffe (2023) argue that acknowledging failure humanises the past. It can also serve as a lens through which to reflect on archaeological reasoning. Here, we turn to the Roman world, and the frontier of northern Britain in particular, to consider how intentionality, distributed agency and moral judgement intersect with the recognition of failure in the past—and with the failures of archaeologists themselves.

Citation

Kitching, P., & Witcher, R. (2023). Failure on the frontier: a response to Price & Jaffe. Antiquity, 97(396), 1613-1616. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2023.161

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Oct 2, 2023
• Online Publication Date: Dec 1, 2023
• Publication Date: 2023-12
• Deposit Date: Dec 1, 2023
• Publicly Available Date: Dec 1, 2023
• Journal: Antiquity
• Print ISSN: 0003-598X
• Electronic ISSN: 1745-1744
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Peer Reviewed: Not Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 97
• Issue: 396
• Pages: 1613-1616
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2023.161
• Keywords: archaeological knowledge; Roman archaeology
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1904026