| Abstract | The article discusses the role of cultural memory in archaeology and disaster studies in Germany. The role has been transformed from stress on representation to the material manifestation of the mutual inter-workings of physical artifacts, their location and their symbolic meaning. The archaeological study determines that how the relation to the dead within past cultures becomes reconstituted in the present. So, the emplacement of the memory of the dead forms a foundation for enacting cultural memory. It also provides a description of the notion of cultural memory given by W. G. Sebald, a German writer.
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