Making senses of the past : toward a sensory archaeology / edited by Jo Day.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Day, Jo (Jo Christine), editor.

Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. Center for Archaeological Investigations, issuing body.

Conference Name:

Annual Visiting Scholar Conference (27th : 2010 : Carbondale, Ill.), issuing body.

Series:

Center for Archaeological Investigations Occasional paper ; number 40

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Archaeology--Methodology--Congresses.

Archaeology.

Senses and sensation--Congresses.

Senses and sensation.

Archaeology--Social aspects--Congresses.

Archaeology--Psychological aspects--Congresses.

Material culture--Social aspects--Congresses.

Material culture.

Material culture--Psychological aspects--Congresses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (445 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Carbondale : Center for Archaeological Investigations, Southern Illinois University Carbondale and Southern Illinois University Press, [2013]

Summary:

Since the nineteenth century, museums have kept their artifacts in glass cases to better preserve them, and drawings and photographs have become standard ways of presenting the past.

Contents:

Dibéwagendamowin-Krohirohi: Reflections on Sacred Images on the Rock / William A. Allen, Gerard O'Regan, Perry Fletcher, and Roger Noganosh

The sound of sulfur and smell of lightning: sensing the volcano / Karen Holmber

Colored monuments and sensory theater among the Mississippians / Corin C. O. Pursell

Maya palaces as experiences: ancient Maya royal architecture and its influence on sensory perception / Ryan Mongelluzzo

Coming to our senses at Chavín de Huantar / Mary Weismantel

The sensory experience of blood sacrifice in the Roman imperial cult / Candace Weddle

Embodying the divine: the sensational experience of the sixth-century eucharist / Heather Hunter-Crawley

A sense of touch: "the full-body experience" in the past and present of Çatalhöyük, Turkey / Ruth Tringham

Musical space and quiet space in medieval monastic Canterbury / Joe Williams

Sustenance, taste, and the practice of community in ancient Mesopotamia / Marie Hopwood

The scent of status: prestige and perfume at the Bronze Age palace at Pylos, Greece / Joanne M. A. Murphy

A whiff of mortality: the smells of death in Roman and Byzantine Beth She'an-Scythopolis / Emerson Avery

Imagined aromas and artificial flowers in Minoan society / Jo Day

Craft and sensory play in late Bronze Age Boeotia / Anastasia Dakouri-Hild

Scents and sensibilities: the phenomenology of late Neolithic Iberian slate plaque production / Jonathan T. Thomas

The production process as sensory experience: making and seeing iron in colonial New England / Krysta Ryzewski

Beyond the display case: creating a multisensory museum experience / Catherine P. Foster

Imagined narratives: sensuous lives in the Chacoan Southwest / Ruth M. Van Dyke

Afterword: eleven theses on the archaeology of the senses / Yannis Hamilakis.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-8093-3313-9

OCLC:

859744796