Managing Archaeology in Dynamic Urban Centres

Urban centres are places of constant activity and change, so archaeological investigation there presents a unique set of challenges and opportunities. Discussions about urban archaeology are far from new, but this volume (inspired by the European Association of Archaeologists’ 2018 conference, and produced by the EAA Urban Archaeology Community) looks at the complexities of these projects in their own right, rather than in the context of the results produced. Urban archaeology is characterised by a series of tensions: between archaeologists and other stakeholders; between the historical and the natural environment; between excavation and preservation in situ, and so on. A key theme