Reconfigured Archaeologies: A Reflexive Approach to Sites of Intersection

In his introductory essay to the volume on ethnographies of archaeological practice, Matt Edgeworth (2006, p. 7) points out how ‘the excavation site itself can be seen as only one of multiple sites\ (overlapping and occupying the same space) . . . all of which are involved in the construction of knowledge, but each of which has different cultural meanings for different social groups’. His \ observation follows Bartu’s (2000) ethnographic study at Çatalhöyük in Turkey. Bartu notes the emergence of multiple sites of knowledge production outside of the excavation site. These sites converge at the intersection of local and global processes. The archaeological exercises at Çatalhöyük, of which Bartu’s work is a part, complicate the discussions on public–archaeology relationships in interesting ways that suggest a Reflexive Method in archaeology.