Archaeology of the Future

Adze museum case

Some of the artefacts in this exhibition, made from a combination of discarded twenty first century technologies and natural materials, were first displayed at the South Australian Museum in 2007 under the title of 'Tooling Up!. Their hybrid nature not only provide evidence for a clash of civilisations or some post apocalyptic event, but also suggest that the notion of primitiveness is relative. This collection, curated from the SA Museum display, has additional items recently discovered in 2009 from a site not far from the Norwood Town Hall.

'Message Sticks' 2014. mobile phones, timber, string, sand, wire, paint, sand, found objects.

These artefacts are a recent addition to the collection. It is thought they were a primitive form of communication used to send simple messages.
Photographs by Michal Kluvanek