Paul Graves-Brown
Paul Graves-Brown is an archaeologist specialising in the contemporary past. He edited the book Matter, Materiality and Modern Culture (Routledge 2000) and has written on car culture, the Kalashnikov AK47, shopping malls, popular music, containerisation of shipping and also the privatisation of public spaces.
Is the graffiti left by the 1970’s punk band in London as worthy of humanity as prehistoric cave art? A British archeologist believes so, seeing on these walls the end of faith in "human progress" initiated by our ancestors.