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Researching the archaeological past through imagined narratives : a necessary fiction / [edited by] Daniël van Halden and Robert Witcher.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge studies in archaeology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Archaeology and literature.
- Archaeology in literature.
- Archaeology--Methodology.
- Archaeology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.
- System Details:
- text file
- Biography/History:
- Daniël van Helden is adoctoral student at the University of Leicester, UK. His research focuses on the theory, method and nature of archaeological thinking, specifically the concept of identity, as well as the potential of Fuzzy Set Theory and ontological database approaches for archaeology. Robert Witcher is Associate Professor of Archaeology at Durham University, UK, and the editor of the world archaeology journal Antiquity. His research interests include landscape archaeology with a particular focus on the pre-Roman and Roman periods in Italy and the Mediterranean, where he has explored aspects of ancient settlement, agriculture and demography.
- Contents:
- Historical fiction and archaeological interpretation : introduction / Daniël van Helden & Robert Witcher
- The cornflakes of prehistory : fact, fiction and imagination in archaeology / Caroline Wickham-Jones
- Voices from the silence / Margaret Elphinstone
- Beyond archaeological narrative : imagined worlds of Neolithic Europe / Mark Patton
- Imagined realities in academic and fictional accounts of the British Mesolithic / Donald Henson
- Walking in someone else's shoes : archaeology, empathy and fiction / Daniël van Helden & Robert Witcher
- The multiverse of fiction : exploring interpretation through community archaeology / Francesco Ripanti & Giulia Osti
- Entering undocumented pasts through playwriting / James G. Gibb
- Encountering the past through slag and storytelling / Michael Given
- Writing wonders : poetry as archaeological method? / Erin Kavanagh
- Ambiguity and omission : creative mediation of the unknowable past / Giacomo Savani & Victoria Thompson
- Spartacus: Blood and Sand (STARZ, 2010) : a necessary fiction? / Fiona Hobden
- Archaeology, historical fiction and Classical Reception Studies / Joanna Paul
- Imagining the past through Film and Cultural Studies / Andrew B.R. Elliott
- Archaeological narrative and humour in a post-truth world: the obligatory sum-up article / Adrian Praetzellis.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Researching the archaeological past through imagined narratives
- ISBN:
- 9780203730904
- 0203730909
- 9781351398701
- 1351398709
- 9781351398688
- 1351398687
- 9781351398695
- 1351398695
- Publisher Number:
- 99984085975
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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