Abstract
The archaeological record forms around historical silences—moments of effacement, removal, or obliteration of traces of the past. Drawing on research conducted at a former Nazi forced labor camp in Berlin, Germany, I view historical silences as the interplay of inscriptions and erasures that constitute archaeological palimpsests. Highlighting both the fragmentary state of the archaeological record and the tangled nature of time, I consider archaeology a form of historical testimony. Taking a cue from an archival art project, archaeology offers new historical possibilities by engaging aspects of the material world that cannot easily be traced, disentangled, or contained.
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