Carlos Tejerizo-García is a Ramón y Cajal researcher in the Medieval, Modern and Contemporaneous History Department at the University of Salamanca (Spain). He specializes in the archaeology of rural societies in the long duration. His latest project, financed by a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship, focused on the archaeologicual industrialization of rural northwestern Iberia from the 18th century until today. His latest book, Arqueología y cine. La Arqueología en la gran pantalla (Almuzara, 2023) is an analysis of the social construction of archaeology in cinema.

• 1 – Introduction: A living memory; 2 – A material approach to the process of modernity; 3 – Before the process of modernity: A characterization of pre-industrial local economies in northwestern Iberia (16th century-Early 19th century); 4 – Demeter has died: The foundations of the process of modernity (Late 19th century-Early 20th century); 5 - A Moment of Danger: A Tale of Two Cities (1930s-1950s); 6. “For everything to remain the same…”: The impact of the slate industry in the rural territories of Casaio and Lardeira (1950s-1980s); 7 - Coping with the Age of Supermodernity (1980s-2020s); 8 - Conclusions: The Process of Modernity

Carlos Tejerizo-García is a Ramón y Cajal researcher in the Medieval, Modern and Contemporaneous History Department at the University of Salamanca (Spain). He specializes in the archaeology of rural societies in the long duration. His latest project, financed by a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship, focused on the archaeologicual industrialization of rural northwestern Iberia from the 18th century until today. His latest book, Arqueología y cine. La Arqueología en la gran pantalla (Almuzara, 2023) is an analysis of the social construction of archaeology in cinema.

• 1 – Introduction: A living memory; 2 – A material approach to the process of modernity; 3 – Before the process of modernity: A characterization of pre-industrial local economies in northwestern Iberia (16th century-Early 19th century); 4 – Demeter has died: The foundations of the process of modernity (Late 19th century-Early 20th century); 5 - A Moment of Danger: A Tale of Two Cities (1930s-1950s); 6. “For everything to remain the same…”: The impact of the slate industry in the rural territories of Casaio and Lardeira (1950s-1980s); 7 - Coping with the Age of Supermodernity (1980s-2020s); 8 - Conclusions: The Process of Modernity

Carlos Tejerizo-García is a Ramón y Cajal researcher in the Medieval, Modern and Contemporaneous History Department at the University of Salamanca (Spain). He specializes in the archaeology of rural societies in the long duration. His latest project, financed by a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship, focused on the archaeologicual industrialization of rural northwestern Iberia from the 18th century until today. His latest book, Arqueología y cine. La Arqueología en la gran pantalla (Almuzara, 2023) is an analysis of the social construction of archaeology in cinema.

• 1 – Introduction: A living memory; 2 – A material approach to the process of modernity; 3 – Before the process of modernity: A characterization of pre-industrial local economies in northwestern Iberia (16th century-Early 19th century); 4 – Demeter has died: The foundations of the process of modernity (Late 19th century-Early 20th century); 5 - A Moment of Danger: A Tale of Two Cities (1930s-1950s); 6. “For everything to remain the same…”: The impact of the slate industry in the rural territories of Casaio and Lardeira (1950s-1980s); 7 - Coping with the Age of Supermodernity (1980s-2020s); 8 - Conclusions: The Process of Modernity