This, the eighth volume in the series, brings together papers from the seventh CHAT Conference (2009), held at Keble College, Oxford on the theme of 'Modern Materials'. Contents: Introduction: Materials Modern (Laura McAtackney & Brent Fortenberry); 2) Fields of Artefacts: Archaeologies of Contemporary Scientific Discovery (Matt Edgeworth); 3) An Archaeological Metaphysics of Care. On Heritage Ecologies, Epistemography and the Isotopy of the Past(s) (Timothy Webmoor); 4) The Realities of the Past: Archaeology, Object-Orientations, Pragmatology (Christopher Witmore); 5) The Workman Laid Down his Tools - Approaches to the Recording and Analysis of Artefactual Remains in 19th and 20th Century Workshops (Chris Hewitson); 6) Hoarding, Re-using and Disposing: Domestic Repositories for Transient Objects (Tom Fisher); 7) Fort Santo Domingo: From a Cannonball to a Sea