Making Senses of the Past : Toward a Sensory Archaeology.

Cover -- Visiting Scholar Conference Volumes -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: Making Senses of the Past -Jo Day -- 2. Dibéwagendamowin / Kārohirohi: Reflections on Sacred Images onthe Rocks -William A. Allen, Gerard O'Regan, Perry Fletcher,and Roger Noganosh -- 3. The sound of sulfur and smell of lightning: sensing the volcano -Karen Holmberg -- 4. Colored Monuments and Sensory Theater among the Mississippians -Corin C. O. Pursell -- 5. Maya Palaces as Experiences: Ancient Maya Royal Architecture and Its Influence on Sensory Perception -Ryan Mongelluzzo -- 6. Coming to Our Senses at Chavín de Huantar -Mary Weismantel -- 7. The Sensory Experience of Blood Sacrifice in the Roman Imperial Cult -Candace Weddle -- 8. Embodying the Divine: The Sensational Experience of the Sixth-Century Eucharist -Heather Hunter-Crawley -- 9. A Sense of Touch-the Full-Body Experience-in the Past and Present of Çatalhöyük, Turkey -Ruth Tringham -- 10. Musical Space and Quiet Space in Medieval Monastic Canterbury -Joe Williams -- 11. Sustenance, Taste, and the Practice of Community in Ancient Mesopotamia -Marie Hopwood -- 12. The Scent of Status: Prestige and Perfume at the Bronze Age Palace at Pylos, Greece -Joanne M. A. Murphy -- 13. A Whiff of Mortality: The Smells of Death in Roman and Byzantine Beth She'an-Scythopolis -Emerson Avery -- 14. Imagined Aromas and Artificial Flowers in Minoan Society -Jo Day -- 15. Craft and Sensory Play in Late Bronze Age Boeotia -Anastasia Dakouri-Hild -- 16. Scents and Sensibilities: The Phenomenology of Late Neolithic Iberian Slate Plaque Production -Jonathan T. Thomas -- 17. The production process as sensory experience: making and seeing iron in colonial New England -Krysta Ryzewski.

18. Beyond the Display Case: Creating a Multisensory Museum Experience -Catherine P. Foster -- 19. Imagined Narratives: Sensory Lives in the Chacoan Southwest -Ruth M. Van Dyke -- 20. Afterword: Eleven Theses on the Archaeology of the Senses -Yannis Hamilakis -- Contributors -- Index -- Back Cover.

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