Throughout the 20th century, countless immigrant groups abandoned the artifacts of cultures that racialized them as immigrants (language, religion, food, styles of speaking, gesticulations, family structures, traditions, etc). in order to become White.
In 2000, O'Leary and one of her past students at New Mexico State University, Ralph Gibson, led a small team to launch the Lunar Legacy Project, an effort to inventory the human-created features and the more than a hundred artifacts abandoned at the Apollo 11 landing site — everything from food bags to boots, defecation-collection devices, and even the plastic covering used for the U.S. flag.
The complexity of mound construction, as revealed through geoarchaeological analyses, indicates the cultural significance of mounds may be as well reflected in the earthen construction materials and their arrangement, as it is in the artifacts abandoned on their summits.
Lewis Binford's pioneering ethnoarchaeological research focused attention on the differing pathways that lead to artifacts being abandoned in different locations on the landscape.
The show adds artifacts including the car abandoned by 9/11 hijackers at Dulles International Airport and the handcuffs used on Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in 2013.
The abandoned house and the lost ammunition were artifacts from the twin American tragedies of Indian removal and the war to protect slavery — manifestations of William Faulkner's point that the past is never dead; it isn't even past.
Her poems often have a post-apocalyptic flavor—she's a lone archeologist digging around long after humans have abandoned the planet, whistling to herself as she comes upon artifacts like these: "…plates but no appetite.
The debate around deaccessioning has been building since 2008, when Fort Ticonderoga proposed selling some of its artifacts to plug a shortfall, an idea it later abandoned.
In addition, Fort Ticonderoga, the historic site in upstate New York, last summer considered selling some artifacts to plug a shortfall, a proposal it later abandoned.
Like artifacts at a dig site, these splotches can be found where they were abandoned.
