Matthew Greer offers us a powerful, refreshing and thought-provoking critique of posthumanist approaches in archaeology as he sees them through the lens of Black Studies. He asks us to leave aside—temporarily—concerns with anthropocentrism to concentrate instead on the human side of the equation, while nonetheless positioning himself in line with posthumanist efforts to dismantle the human–non-human divide. The crux of Greer's arguments is that posthumanist approaches do not go far enough in distancing themselves from humanism for two reasons. First, humanity remains (tacitly) equated with white, heterosexual, economically well-off men, a single group that forms the scale against which all other people are measured. Second, posthumanist approaches do not acknowledge that racism and related forms of oppression were integral to the emergence of humanism and not a by-product of it.

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马修·格里尔通过黑人研究的视角对考古学中的后人类主义方法提出了强有力的、令人耳目一新且发人深省的批评。他要求我们暂时抛开对人类中心主义的担忧，转而关注等式中人类的一面，同时将自己定位为与后人类主义消除人类与非人类鸿沟的努力保持一致。格里尔论点的核心在于，后人文主义方法在远离人文主义方面还远远不够，原因有二。首先，人类仍然（默认）与白人、异性恋、经济富裕的男性等同，这个单一群体构成了衡量所有其他人的尺度。其次，后人文主义方法并不承认种族主义和相关形式的压迫是人文主义出现的组成部分，而不是其副产品。