Envisioning the Past
Subtitle: Archaeology and the Image (New Interventions in Art History)
Contributors: Stephanie Moser (Editor); Sam Smiles (Editor)
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Limited
Published: January 1, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9781405111515
Subjects: Archaeology; History Of Art / Art & Design Styles; Sociology; History - General; Social Science; Art & Art Instruction; ARCHAEOLOGY_METHODOLOGY; Social Science / Archaeology; Afbeeldingen (algemeen); Artefacten (archeologie); Imaging systems in archaeology; 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.