Worlding Excavation Practices

Abstract This paper seeks to do justice the often complex, messy, and sometimes ambiguous meaning making practices of archaeological field work. Taking recent adoptions assemblage theory sensory studies in archaeology as an angle arrival, I contribute here discussions on self-reflective interpretive archaeology. Drawing empirical encounters with troweling backfilling at Ardnamurchan Transitions Project western Scotland, describe production knowledge terms storying: coming into existence earthly world through correspondences. show how storying generates correspondences more proximate distant excavation interplays between them. Furthermore, propose that storying, well can be understood worlding: generation sustained remembrances events lively corresponding materials.