Archaeology of modernity

Archaeology deals with the material remains of cultures. This also includes today's civilization. The social transformation to modernity was a lengthy process with many aspects, which can be well understood archaeologically from industrialization onwards with the construction of factories. But there are also the legacies of everyday life in the 19th century. up to 20. Century. One of the most recent archaeologically relevant structures is the "Green Belt“the former border of the GDR.