Thoughts on moving forward towards a playful archaeology: a commentary.

According to Praetzellis and Praetzellis ([4], 129), noteworthy archaeologists - such as the late Lewis Binford - have heavily criticized the use of storytelling as well as all "post-processual" archaeology, labelling this as "not archaeology" and "anti science". It would arguably be an act of resistance to experience the archaeology of play and archaeology as play under these circumstances. In their paper, Politopoulos, Mol and Lammes discuss the lack of play, games and fun in archaeology, striking a playful yet serious tone and noting that "we have mostly neglected to develop an archaeology of play". [Extracted from the article]