Re-Presenting the Past : Archaeology through Text and Image Paperback / softback
Edited by Sheila Bonde, Stephen Houston
Part of the Joukowsky Institute Publication series
Paperback / softback
Description
The archaeological past exists for us through intermediaries.
Some are written works, descriptions, narratives and field notes, while others are visual: the drawings, paintings, photographs, powerpoints or computer visualizations that allow us to re-present past forms of human existence.
This volume brings together nine papers, six of which were presented at a symposium hosted at Brown University. Two papers explore the classical past and medieval visualizations. Three treat the Maya, and one considers the imaging by eighteenth-century antiquarians of British history; yet another ranges broadly in its historical considerations. Several consider the trajectory over time of visualization and self-imaging.
Others engage with issues of recording by looking, for example, at the ways in which nineteenth-century excavation photographs can aid in the reconstruction of an inscription or by evaluating the process of mapping a site with ArcGIS and computer animation software. All essays raise key questions about the function of re-presentations of the past in current archaeological practice.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:215 pages, 46 b/w figs, 12 col figs
- Publisher:Oxbow Books
- Publication Date:01/07/2013
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- ISBN:9781782972310
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:215 pages, 46 b/w figs, 12 col figs
- Publisher:Oxbow Books
- Publication Date:01/07/2013
- Category:
- ISBN:9781782972310