DOUBLE-ARTEFACTS: EXPLORING THE OTHER SIDE OF MATERIAL CULTURE by Matt Edgeworth* Abstract: This paper argues th at what we call material culture has a hidden aspect to it. As well as being created by others, archaeological features and artefacts have also been re-created by ourselves: in thi s sense th ey are 'double-artefacts '. Here I look specifically at the examples of a pit unde rgoing excavation, and at bullroarers kept in the storeroom of a Cambridge museum. Through processes of shaping, inscription and wrappi ng, I show how they have been appropriated int o our mate ri al culture in th e here and now. A truly holistic app roac h, it is argued, wou ld need to take acco unt of this 'o th er side of material culture'. Key words: Material culture; archaeo logical practice; double-artefacts. Resumo: Este artigo defende que · aquilo a que chamamos cu l tura material tern implfcita uma faceta escondida. Tendo sido criado s po r outros, os elementos e artefactos arqueo l6gicos foram tambem re-criados por n6s pr6- prios; n es te senti do, sao "artefac to s duplos" . Neste caso concentro-me espec ificamente nos exemplares de uma escava9ao de uma fossa em curso, e em zu ni do r es [instrumentos de musica antigos, usados para comunicar a di s tfin cia] guardados no s depositos de urn museu de Cambridge. Atraves de processos de conforma9ao, inscri9ao e acomoda9ao em emb rulh os, mostro como eles fo r am apropriados pela nossa cultura material aqu i e agora. Defendo que uma perspectiva verdadei r amente holfstica dev ia ter em conta es te "outro l ado da cultura materia l". Palavras-chave: Cultura material; pnl.tica arqueol6gica; artefactos duplos. The problem with material cu lture is that we tend to constitute it as an objective category of things, losing sig ht of how we ourselves use material culture to constitute that category of things in th l first place. Whole books are written about material culture as though it somehow exists independently of ourselves, as though we have not played a role in shaping it, and as though - in the very act of writ in g about it - it has not become a part of our material culture too. Such accounts of material culture are inevitably incomplete. • University of Birmingham. E-mail: mattedgeworth@hotma il. com