02207nas a2200301   4500000000100000000000100001000000100002008004100003653001600044653002300060653003200083653002100115653003600136100002300172700001800195700001700213700002300230700001600253700001700269700001700286700002100303700002700324245010200351856004200453300001200495490000600507520139200513       2018                            d10aYuri Lotman10asemiosphere theory10anonprofessional archaeology10adigital heritage10aarchaeology-related communities1 aRimvydas Laužikas1 aCostis Dallas1 aSuzie Thomas1 aIngrida Kelpšiene1 aIsto Huvila1 aPedro Luengo1 aHelena Nobre1 aMarina Toumpouri1 aVykintas Vaitkevičius00aArchaeological Knowledge Production and Global Communities: Boundaries and Structure of the Field  uhttp://doi.org/10.1515/opar-2018-0022  a350-3640 v43 aArchaeology and material cultural heritage enjoys a particular status as a form of heritage that, capturing the public imagination, has become the locus for the expression and negotiation of regional, national, and intra-national cultural identities. One important question is: why and how do contemporary people engage with archaeological heritage objects, artefacts, information or knowledge outside the realm of an professional, academically-based archaeology? This question is investigated here from the perspective of theoretical considerations based on Yuri Lotmans semiosphere theory, which helps to describe the connections between the centre and peripheries of professional archaeology as sign structures. The centre may be defined according to prevalent scientific paradigms, while periphery in the space of creolisation in which, through interactions with other culturally more distant sign structures, archaeology-related nonprofessional communities emerge. On the basis of these considerations, we use collocation analysis on representative English language corpora to outline the structure of the field of archaeology-related nonprofessional communities, identify salient creolised peripheral spaces and archaeology-related practices, and develop a framework for further investigation of archaeological knowledge production and reuse in the context of global archaeology.