Travels with an archaeologist : finding a sense of place
Richard Hodges
Bok · Engelsk · 2017 · Personlige beretninger
| Omfang | xii, 167 sider : illustrasjoner
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| Opplysninger | Introduction: An archaeologist's sense of the past -- [I] In the company of placemaking people -- In Charles Newton's shadow, searching for Demeter at Knidos -- Wim van Es and the discovery of the Dutch "Troy," Dorestad -- Johnny Mitchell and San Vincenzo al Volturno's first saint -- Riccardo and Quinto : place-making at "lost" Tuscan villages -- Breakfast with Colin Renfrew -- Reviewing Lisa Fentress at Alatri -- With Giussy Nicolini where the blue begins -- Remembering Albanian heroines -- [II] Finding the senses: Hearing -- Boreal Butrint and its golden oriels -- Sublimity : hidden in the togate's folds -- Fireworks at Copan -- [III] Sight -- Seeing beyond Sparta, Mistra -- Sights and sanctuary at Saranda -- Cavernous spectacles of colour : S. Michele at Olevano and the Crypt of the Original Sin -- A Renaissance dream house at Visegrád -- [IV] Smell -- The smell of the desert : Doha and Al Zubarah -- Smelling spices in Sana'a -- The disturbing scent of gold : Rosia Montana, Transylvania -- [V] Taste -- Tuscan cooking classes and S. Pietro d'Asso -- Red mullet and retsina on Aegina -- The taste of Key lime pie -- [VI] Touch -- Touching "gold" in Gordion -- In touch with Rome's ex-pat dead : Rome's non-Catholic cemetery -- Bunga bunga?. - "'You must be very patient,' most everyone asserts admiringly on encountering an archaeologist. Patience in the pursuit of history instantly earns consideration. Patience to sift through the soil to discover treasure, from gold to unidentifiable knick-knacks--an educated beachcomber. But, patience does not come into it so much as the chemistry of experiences from being in the company of others as the five senses are provoked and satisfied by the buried unexpected. Archaeology is about hearing, seeing, smelling, tasting and touching past textures in our time. With these senses, in the company of friends, new places are created from old ones. Travel with archaeologist and writer Richard Hodges as he explores sites across the globe and ponders the relationship of the individual with the past and the present of the past in its ruins, monuments and hidden traces of long-distant worlds and civilisations"--
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| Emner | Hodges, Richard
Archaeologists - Travel. Archaeology - Philosophy. Archaeology - Psychological aspects. Vis mer... Archaeology - Social aspects.
Excavations (Archaeology) Historic sites. Place (Philosophy) Senses and sensation. Arkeologer Arkeologi Feltarbeid Utgravning arkeologi arkeologer arbeidsmetoder utgravninger |
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| ISBN | 9781350012646
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