Entre le carnet et la tablette

Abstract

The work presented in this article stems from a thesis conducted between 2019 and 2022. This multidisciplinary research focuses on the effects of the use of digital devices on archaeology as a discipline and on archaeologists in their practices and professional identities. It has mobilized and studied numerous unpublished documentary sources over the last five decades and has produced more than a hundred interviews with archaeological professionals. This article first proposes to place the stages and modalities of the deployment of digital devices and practices in archaeology in the history of the methods and techniques of the discipline in the 20th century. Then, some of the effects of these practices on the conditions of possibility of new archaeological knowledge and on the sensitive experience of the field are discussed. Finally, the impacts of these practices on professional identities and on the regimes of scientificity are discussed.

Keywords

• archaeology
• digital devices
• digital practices
• emotional history of knowledge
• anthropology of knowledge