After Modernity: Archaeological Approaches to the Contemporary Past by Rodney Harrison and John Schofield.

At the 2007 New Ground Conference in Sydney, Annie Bickford posed an interesting question at the end of a session on contemporary archaeology. After hearing papers on post-war urban architecture, depression work camps, modern graffiti, abandoned offices and orbital space stations, she asked “In what way is this different to historical archaeology?” This is a question that After Modernity goes some way towards answering – but the success of the answer is something you will have to judge for yourself.