Bjørnar OlsenBjørnar J. Olsen is professor of archaeology at UiT – The Arctic University of Norway. Olsen has long been central to theoretical archaeology though it is in his pioneering work in the new materialisms and contemporary archaeology that he hasmade his most important contributions. His books include, In Defense of Things: Archaeology and the Ontology of Objects (Rowman & Littlefield 2010), with Shanks, Webmoor and Witmore, Archaeology: The Discipline of Things (2012), with Pétursdottir (eds), Ruin Memories: Materiality, Aesthetics and the Archaeology of the Recent Past (2014), with Burström, DeSilvey and Þ. Pétursdóttir (eds), After discourse: Things, Affects, Ethics (2021) and with Farstadvoll and Godin (eds), Unruly Heritage: Archaeologies of the Anthropocene (2024, Bloomsbury). Read More Read Less