Envisioning the Past
Subtitle: Archaeology and the Image (New Interventions in Art History)
Contributors: Sam Smiles (Editor)
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Limited
Published: January 1, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9781405111508
Subjects: Archaeology; History Of Art / Art & Design Styles; Imaging systems in archaeology; Social Science; Archaeology / Anthropology; Sociology; ARCHAEOLOGY_METHODOLOGY; Social Science / Archaeology; Afbeeldingen (algemeen); Artefacten (archeologie); gtt
First sentence: Stories of human origins seduce us with their exotic promises, these Siren- like stories tempting us with the ineffable, the fog of a shrouded past parting momentarily for glimpses of our ancestral DNA, our first home, and our roots.