A symmetrical archaeology recharacterizes the world, not in terms of dualisms or oppositions, but in terms of mixtures and entanglements. While it poses that we treat humans and things in the same terms, both in our articulations and in our reflexive analyses of our own practices, a symmetrical archaeology also accords the things of the past action now. This understanding holds profound implications for a discipline which considers the past to be separate, distant and distinct. This paper will offer an empirical case from the Greek Argolid and explore the implications of a 'past no longer past' for archaeology.

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