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Making senses of the past : toward a sensory archaeology /

Since the nineteenth century, museums have kept their artifacts in glass cases to better preserve them, and drawings and photographs have become standard ways of presenting the past. These practices have led to an archaeology dominated by visual description, even though human interaction with the su...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores Corporativos: Annual Visiting Scholar Conference Carbondale, Ill., Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. Center for Archaeological Investigations
Otros Autores: Day, Jo (Jo Christine)
Formato: Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Carbondale : Center for Archaeological Investigations, Southern Illinois University Carbondale and Southern Illinois University Press, [2013]
©2013
Colección:Occasional paper (Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Center for Archaeological Investigations) ; no. 40.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Making Senses of the Past / Jo Day
  • Dibéwagendamowin-Krohirohi: Reflections on Sacred Images on the Rock / William A. Allen, Gerard O'Regan, Perry Fletcher, and Roger Noganosh
  • The sound of sulfur and smell of lightning: sensing the volcano / Karen Holmber
  • Colored monuments and sensory theater among the Mississippians / Corin C.O. Pursell
  • Maya palaces as experiences: ancient Maya royal architecture and its influence on sensory perception / Ryan Mongelluzzo
  • Coming to our senses at Chavín de Huantar / Mary Weismantel
  • The sensory experience of blood sacrifice in the Roman imperial cult / Candace Weddle
  • Embodying the divine: the sensational experience of the sixth-century eucharist / Heather Hunter-Crawley
  • A sense of touch: "the full-body experience" in the past and present of Çatalhöyük, Turkey / Ruth Tringham
  • Musical space and quiet space in medieval monastic Canterbury / Joe Williams
  • Sustenance, taste, and the practice of community in ancient Mesopotamia / Marie Hopwood
  • The scent of status: prestige and perfume at the Bronze Age palace at Pylos, Greece / Joanne M.A. Murphy
  • A whiff of mortality: the smells of death in Roman and Byzantine Beth She'an-Scythopolis / Emerson Avery
  • Imagined aromas and artificial flowers in Minoan society / Jo Day
  • Craft and sensory play in late Bronze Age Boeotia / Anastasia Dakouri-Hild
  • Scents and sensibilities: the phenomenology of late Neolithic Iberian slate plaque production / Jonathan T. Thomas
  • The production process as sensory experience: making and seeing iron in colonial New England / Krysta Ryzewski
  • Beyond the display case: creating a multisensory museum experience / Catherine P. Foster
  • Imagined narratives: sensuous lives in the Chacoan Southwest / Ruth M. Van Dyke
  • Afterword: eleven theses on the archaeology of the senses / Yannis Hamilakis.