Archaeology 2.0? Review of Archaeology 2.0: New Approaches to Communication and Collaboration [Web Book]

Abstract

A review of "Archaeology 2.0: New Approaches to Communication and Collaboration" examined the claim that archaeology is undergoing a catharsis analogous to that of the World Wide Web's embracing of radical changes of software design and web delivery in the early 2000s. The reviewers disagree with the premise of the book, maintaining that the well-meaning authors have misunderstood the implications of Web 2.0 and its aftermath, and that their perspective is hopelessly narrow, although the contribution of the book to the debate relating to the uses of IT in archaeology was appreciated.