Bradbury, Carlee A.2024-05-272024-05-272014-12-279780692346563e6962291-bc96-4f3f-906e-0e1e1e317f58https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0085.1.00https://thoth-arch.lib.cam.ac.uk/handle/1811/469Publication status: ACTIVEThis collaborative arts research project compares the landmark discovery of the Staffordshire Hoard, the largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold and silver metalwork discovered in 2009, with an imagined hoard from present day pre-adolescent girls. The collaborators constructed a subterranean installation, generated speculative historical documents, collected and embellished social networking “artifacts,” and photographed the entire process. In addition to dealing with the notion of a medieval hoard as a signifier of a medieval warrior as both hero and anti-hero, this artbook, or work of futurist archaeology, addresses contemporary issues relating to gender, youth culture, bullying, adolescent development, iconicity, status symbols, and additional contemporary tween issues.https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/AGKART006010cultural theoryfuturist archeologygender studieshoardstween culturehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_2f332024-05-27