Making senses of the past : toward a sensory archaeology /
edited by Jo Day.
- xiii, 429 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.
- Center for Archaeological Investigations occasional paper ; no. 40 .
- Occasional paper (Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Center for Archaeological Investigations) ; no. 40. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Making Senses of the Past / Dibéwagendamowin-Krohirohi: Reflections on Sacred Images on the Rock / The sound of sulfur and smell of lightning: sensing the volcano / Colored monuments and sensory theater among the Mississippians / Maya palaces as experiences: ancient Maya royal architecture and its influence on sensory perception / Coming to our senses at Chavín de Huantar / The sensory experience of blood sacrifice in the Roman imperial cult / Embodying the divine: the sensational experience of the sixth-century eucharist / A sense of touch: "the full-body experience" in the past and present of Çatalhöyük, Turkey / Musical space and quiet space in medieval monastic Canterbury / Sustenance, taste, and the practice of community in ancient Mesopotamia / The scent of status: prestige and perfume at the Bronze Age palace at Pylos, Greece / A whiff of mortality: the smells of death in Roman and Byzantine Beth She'an-Scythopolis / Imagined aromas and artificial flowers in Minoan society / Craft and sensory play in late Bronze Age Boeotia / Scents and sensibilities: the phenomenology of late Neolithic Iberian slate plaque production / The production process as sensory experience: making and seeing iron in colonial New England / Beyond the display case: creating a multisensory museum experience / Imagined narratives: sensuous lives in the Chacoan Southwest / Afterword: eleven theses on the archaeology of the senses / Jo Day -- William A. Allen, Gerard O'Regan, Perry Fletcher, and Roger Noganosh -- Karen Holmber -- Corin C. O. Pursell -- Ryan Mongelluzzo -- Mary Weismantel -- Candace Weddle -- Heather Hunter-Crawley -- Ruth Tringham -- Joe Williams -- Marie Hopwood -- Joanne M. A. Murphy -- Emerson Avery -- Jo Day -- Anastasia Dakouri-Hild -- Jonathan T. Thomas -- Krysta Ryzewski -- Catherine P. Foster -- Ruth M. Van Dyke -- Yannis Hamilakis. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20.
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