The Routledge Handbook of Archaeology and Plastics

Chapter 1 Archaeology and plastics: an introduction; Section 1: Introduction: Frameworks: Chapter 2 Early Plastics; Chapter 3 Stratigraphy of Plastics; Chapter 4 Plastics in Sedimentary Processes and Rocks: The Fossilization of the Plastic Age; Chapter 5 Plastic and Presentism: The Time of Disposability; Chapter 6 Curating Plastics; Chapter 7 Classification for the Plastic Age; Section 2 Introduction: Perspectives: Chapter 8 In Small Plastic Things Forgotten: The Contradictions and Consequences of Biopower; Chapter 9 Unsustainable Horizons: Plastic material Culture in Forensic Archaeology; Chapter 10 Ephemeral Archaeology? Queering the Cultural and Political Implications of Historicising Plastic Pollution; Chapter 11 A âPlastic Archaeology for an Anthropocene of Plastics: Reflections from the South; Chapter 12 âSelf-insulated, ⦠Rotproof and Fireproofâ? The Poetry of Plastics in Architecture: From the House of the Future to the Grenfell Tower Disaster; Chapter 13 Understanding the Use of Plastics in Design: Materials, Manufacturing Processes, and Relational Connections; Chapter 14 Contemporary Art, Archaeology, and Plastics; Section 3 Introduction: Production: Chapter 15 The Archaeology of Oil Production; Chapter 16 Additives And Afterlives: Plastic Production and Consumption in Ruby Arizona; Chapter 17 The Industrial Archaeology of Plastic Production; Chapter 18 Plastics and the Great Depression in North East England: 1929-1939; Chapter 19 Pulsing Threads, Plastic Lines; Section 4 Introduction: Use: Chapter 20 From Transformative Potential to Existential Crisis: The Practice of Art/Archaeology in the Plastic Age; Chapter 21 Remembering the Building Blocks of Socialism: The Material and Mediatised (N)ostalgia of East German Plastic Construction Toys; Chapter 22 Vinyl Records in Archaeological Context: A Case Study from Northern California; Chapter 23 Ritual Litter: Pagan Votive Offerings at Historic and Nature Sites in the UK; Chapter 24 Birds as Curators of Human Generated Debris; Section 5 Introduction: Waste: Chapter 25 Living on the Mounds of Plastic: The Material Culture and Daily Life of Communities with Garbage-Based Subsistence; Chapter 26 An Underwater Archaeology of Plastic in Inland Waterways; Chapter 27 Islands of the Plastic Age: Cultural Heritage Perspectives on Submergence and Emergence in the Northern Pacific; Chapter 28 Archaeology of a Cargo Spill: The Lingering Legacy of Lego; Chapter 29 Plastics in Outer Space; Chapter 30 The Flipflopi: The recycled plastic boat on a mission to âclose the loopâ on plastic waste; Section 6 Future Prospects: Chapter 31 The Substance of Dreams: Plastics and âThe Futureâ; Chapter 32 Conclusion by Cornelius Holtorf; Index.