Making senses of the past
Subtitle: toward a sensory archaeology
By: edited by Jo Day
Contributors: Day, Jo (Jo Christine); Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. Center for Archaeological Investigations
Series: Center for Archaeological Investigations Occasional paper -- no. 40
Publisher: Center for Archaeological Investigations, Southern Illinois University Carbondale and Southern Illinois University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Carbondale
Language: eng
Number of pages: 429
ISBN-13: 9780809332878; 9780809333134
Subjects: Archaeology; Congresses; Methodology; Senses and sensation; Material culture
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Dibéwagendamowin-Krohirohi: Reflections on Sacred Images on the Rock / William A. Allen, Gerard O'Regan, Perry Fletcher, and Roger Noganosh; title: The sound of sulfur and smell of lightning: sensing the volcano / Karen Holmber; title: Colored monuments and sensory theater among the Mississippians / Corin C. O. Pursell; title: Maya palaces as experiences: ancient Maya royal architecture and its influence on sensory perception / Ryan Mongelluzzo; title: Coming to our senses at Chavín de Huantar / Mary Weismantel; title: The sensory experience of blood sacrifice in the Roman imperial cult / Candace Weddle; title: Embodying the divine: the sensational experience of the sixth-century eucharist / Heather Hunter-Crawley; title: A sense of touch: "the full-body experience" in the past and present of Çatalhöyük, Turkey / Ruth Tringham; title: Musical space and quiet space in medieval monastic Canterbury / Joe Williams; title: Sustenance, taste, and the practice of community in ancient Mesopotamia / Marie Hopwood; title: The scent of status: prestige and perfume at the Bronze Age palace at Pylos, Greece / Joanne M. A. Murphy; title: A whiff of mortality: the smells of death in Roman and Byzantine Beth She'an-Scythopolis / Emerson Avery; title: Imagined aromas and artificial flowers in Minoan society / Jo Day; title: Craft and sensory play in late Bronze Age Boeotia / Anastasia Dakouri-Hild; title: Scents and sensibilities: the phenomenology of late Neolithic Iberian slate plaque production / Jonathan T. Thomas; title: The production process as sensory experience: making and seeing iron in colonial New England / Krysta Ryzewski; title: Beyond the display case: creating a multisensory museum experience / Catherine P. Foster; title: Imagined narratives: sensuous lives in the Chacoan Southwest / Ruth M. Van Dyke; title: Afterword: eleven theses on the archaeology of the senses / Yannis Hamilakis.