Defining moments : dramatic archaeologies of the twentieth-century / edited by John Schofield.

Oxford : Archaeopress : Available from Hadrian Books, 2009.

ix, 164 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm.

Chiefly papers originally presented at a session at the Theoretical Archaeology Group conference in Cardiff, 1999.

Drama and the moment / John Schofield -- Marconie's first transatlantic wireless message / Cassie Newland -- The case of the RMS Titanic / David Miles -- The Battle of the Somme and the machine gun myth / Paul Cornish -- The discovery of insulin / E.M. Tansey -- From Ally Pally to Big Brother: television makes viewers of us all / Martin Brown -- The introduction of compulsory driving tests in the United Kingdom: the neglected role of the state in motoring / John Beech -- Commentary: visions of the twentieth century / Cornelius Holtorf -- Operation Chastise: the raid on the German dams / Richard Morris -- Because it's there: the ascent of Everest / Paul Graves-Brown -- The Space Age begins: the launch of Sputnik I, Earth's first artificial satellite / Greg Fewer -- Proclamation 43 / Martin Hall -- The Library of Babel: origins of the World Wide Web / Paul Graves-Brown -- The murder of Matthew Wayne Shepard: an archaeologist's personal defining moment / Thomas Dowson -- "Three, two, one...?": the material legacy of global millennium celebrations / Rodney Harrison -- Conservation and the British / Graham Fairclough.

Includes bibliographical references.