Re-creating the Past - On the Quality of Archaeological Reconstruction on Gotland

Re-creating the past in full-scale, open-air reconstructions has been done for a long time, but phenomenon accelerating and changing character during last two decades. The article examines how reconstruction activities are motivated. Explicit aims contrasted with implicit motives inherent reconstruction. Public utility is proposed as an important excuse activities. As consequence of relationship between explicit public utility, we get rigid form quality thinking that expresses elitism. Instead fruitless criticism can express more clearly what expect from reconstruction, why. Examples used taken island Gotland Baltic Sea.