ABSTRACT

In Experiencing the Past Michael Shanks presents an animated exploration of the character of archaeology and reclaims the sentiment and feeling which are so often lost in purely academic approaches.

chapter |4 pages

Introduction

chapter |8 pages

Prelude: The Visit

part I|38 pages

Archaeological Method

chapter 1|36 pages

Trees and Gardens

A topography of archaeological interpretation

part II|46 pages

Archaeological Interests

chapter 2|32 pages

Desire and Metaphor

An archaeological erotics

chapter 3|12 pages

Perfume and Violence

Impressions of some aryballoi (perfume jars) from archaic Korinth 22

part III|63 pages

The Encounter with the Past

chapter 4|20 pages

What is the Archaeological Past?

chapter 5|5 pages

Wallington Hall

chapter 6|24 pages

Experience and the Past

chapter 7|12 pages

Dunstanburgh Castle, Northumberland

part IV|46 pages

Working Archaeology

chapter 8|17 pages

The Craft of Archaeology

chapter 9|15 pages

An Archaeological Poetics

chapter 10|12 pages

Death and the Domestic

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