Abstract
A social and ideological trend that has been most influential in the 20’" century is modernism. It is of interest to closer examine the relationship between archaeology and the western social-liberal modernistic project. The archaeology related to Cultural Resource Management in Sweden is a suitable for a study of this kind. This article tries to illustrate this by presenting a case study from Malmö in Scania, south Sweden. The Swedish modern project went hand in hand with industrialization. This development has been of importance for the accumulation of archaeological data. Modernistic ideas were however also largely to influence archaeological methods and interpretations.
Highlights
IN T RODU CT I ON Atcltaeology and ntodernistic ideas Archaeological debate in the last decades has made it very clear that there exist close ties between the elaboration of archaeological theories and methods and the social and political developments of society in general
In the 1980s and 1990s we saw the rise of post-processual archaeology, a heterogeneous orchestration of ideas strongly inspired by post-modern philosophy
Modernistic rationality, fundamental for the theoretical approach in processual archaeology has been a target for critique in the texts of post-processual archaeology (Hodder 1986; Tilley 1990; Burström 1991; Gustafsson 1996; Karlsson 1998)
Summary
The Swedish modern project went hand in hand with industrialization This development has been of importance for the accumulation of archaeological data. Research in archaeological history has often come to focus upon aspects of nationalism and colonialism, where archaeology has played a central role in legitimizing political ventures, undertakings that have in several cases involved armed repression of other ethnic groups (Trigger 1993; Magnusson Staaf 1994; Werbart 1999) Another social and ideological trend that has been most influential in the 20'" Century is modernism. Tl&e Risa and Decline(?) of the Modern in S&veden scale industrialization of the last century This development has been of great importance for the accumulation of archaeological data in Sweden. Malmö Museum can be said to be quite representative for describing the general development of CRM archaeology in the 20'" Century as this institution has directed excavations since the tum of the century
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