The archaeological perspective was once applied only to the extinct “other”. American’s first glimpsed their modern world as ruined after the Great Chicago Fire of 1873, where extra trains were needed to accommodate out of town tourists. By the 1920s, archaeology was beginning to focus on the more recent remains of our past. Increasingly, a more post-modern consideration of our contemporary world as the past tense has emerged in pop culture, art, and the sciences. Our culture, as artifact.