Assaf Nativ is an independent scholar. His primary interests pertain to how archaeologists construct their professional knowledge, especially pertaining to the value systems that underlie their choices and judgements. His practical experience was primarily acquired in the southern Levant, where he excavated sites spanning the Pottery Neolithic period and the twentieth century.

Gavin Lucas is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Iceland. He has an enduring interest in the way archaeologists think and work, with a special interest in the concept of time. His main focus of fieldwork and empirical research has been on the archaeology of the last 500 years.

Lists of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Chapter 1. Introduction; Section 1: Politics - Chapter 2. The Form of a Shadow: Decolonial Practice, Refusal, and Feminist Killjoys; Chapter 3. Colonial Shadows, Multitemporality, and Continuous Change around the Great Lakes; Chapter 4. Archaeology and Technology: Living in the Shadow of the Machine-Gods; Chapter 5. Tacit Archaeology: Legacy Colonialism, Implicit Knowing, Cultural Techniques, and Slow Inheritance; Chapter 6. Contemporary Archaeology as Shadow Archaeology in (the North of) Ireland; Chapter 7. Staying on the Surface of Qadas; Section 2: Practices - Chapter 8. Wonder, Intuition, and Compulsive Creativity as Archaeological Method; Chapter 9. Hauntography and Other Dark Arts; Chapter 10. Shadow Metal Detecting: Archaeological Worldmaking in Another Context; Chapter 11. Performance in Archaeology and the Archaeology of Performance: An Experimentation at the Neolithic Site of Toumba Serron in Northern Greece; Chapter 12. Yellowcake: A Performative (An)Archaeology of Uranium; Chapter 13. The Limeburners; Chapter 14. 'Shadowplay': A Conversation about Archaeology and Music; Section 3: Objects - Chapter 15. Shadows from Below: On an Increasingly Permeable Object of Permian Proportions; Chapter 16. The Archaeosphere: Emerging from the Shadows, Receding from the Light; Chapter 17. In the Shadow of Ruins: Rubble of the Post-War Warsaw; Chapter 18. Archaeology as a Hauntology of Remains; Chapter 19. In the Dark Abyss of Time: Where Stands Archaeology?; Chapter 20. Buried Culture and the Dark Side of the (Excavated) Archaeological Object; Chapter 21. On 'Incompossible' Pasts and the Powers of the False: Exploring the Shadow Worlds Archaeology Encounters and Forgets; Index.