"We civilizations now know that we are mortal."
Paul Valéry


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Welcome to the website
ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE FUTURE
archaeology of the future

Looking through this site, you will take a strange journey into another world, within another time...
I know, for I took it before you did, this trip is perilous.I've been wandering for a long time across the deserts, under the grey light of a raw sun, looking for the remains of a vanished civilization : our civilization...
Concrete and rusty iron, everywhere, ruins of what constitutes today our surrounding landscape, put forth like so many warts on the buried strata of the former millennia.
From this imaginary trip I brought back some "virtual" pictures, so called perhaps because of their alarming reality.
You are meant to be the archaeologists of the future.You have nothing but them to attempt to reconstruct what our environment was at the end of our 20th century. A few remains and a few fragments of objects, chosen among the less grand, the less exceptional, to try to understand a strange civilization from the end of the second millennium.

Claude Guillemot

The exploration deals with three concentric zones :
central urban zone, peripheral zone, external zone

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lettre

open letter to "developmentors"
and "architectors"