Recording Archaeological Senses in Subterranean Environments
Channel: Recording Archaeology
Date: 2019-08-01

Full title: Recording Archaeological Senses in Subterranean Environments: A methodological and technical approach

Sensorial and emotional approaches in archaeology always have been criticized due to the difficulty of the analytical documentation of the past senses (see Tringham 2015). This paper tries to correlate current trends on archaeological theory about non-rational decision-making factors in prehistoric communities (such as senses, emotions and feelings) with current mapping and geo-analytical techniques. Caves from the Balkans works complimentary as case studies but a discussion on how the application of the proposed methods can alter the current understanding of the human use of the Neolithic Balkan caves will take place, in order to showcase if a geosophical approach (after Gillings 2008) can offer a better understanding of the past.

Konstantinos Trimmis (University of Bristol)

TAG Deva 2018
Session: Integrating Theory and Science in Archaeology