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

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

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 429 pages) : illustrations, maps Series Center for Archaeological Investigations occasional paper ; no. 40 Occasional paper (Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Center for Archaeological Investigations) ; no. 40. Contents Introduction: Making Senses of the Past / Jo Day -- 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 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. These practices have led to an archaeology dominated by visual description, even though human interaction with the surrounding world involves the whole body and all of its senses. In the past few years, sensory archaeology has become more prominent, and this book is one of the first collected volumes on this subject. This book presents cutting-edge research on theoretical issues. The essays presented here take readers on a multisensory journey around the world and across time. In ancient Peru, a site provides sensory surprises as voices resound beneath the ground and hidden carvings slowly reveal their secrets. In Canada and New Zealand, the flicker of reflected light from a lake dances on the faces of painted rocks and may have influenced when and why the pigment was applied. In Mesopotamia, vessels for foodstuffs build a picture of a past cuisine that encompasses taste and social activity in the building of communities. While perfume and flowers are examined in various cultures, in the chamber tombs of ancient Roman Palestine, we are reminded that not all smells are pleasant. This book explores alternative ways to perceive past societies and offers a new way of wiring archaeology that incorporates the senses Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Archaeology -- Methodology -- Congresses Senses and sensation -- Congresses Archaeology -- Social aspects -- Congresses Archaeology -- Psychological aspects -- Congresses Material culture -- Social aspects -- Congresses Material culture -- Psychological aspects -- Congresses Archaeology -- Methodology Archaeology -- Social aspects Material culture -- Social aspects Senses and sensation Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings Form Electronic book Author Day, Jo (Jo Christine) Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. Center for Archaeological Investigations. ISBN 9780809332878 0809332876 9780809333134 0809333139

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