The Routledge Handbook of Sensory Archaeology

Edited by two pioneers in the field of sensory archaeology, this Handbook comprises a key point of reference for the ever-expanding field of sensory archaeology: one that surpasses previous books in this field, both in scope and critical intent. This Handbook provides an extensive set of specially commissioned chapters, each of which summarizes and critically reflects on progress made in this dynamic field during the early years of the twenty-first century. The authors identify and discuss the key current concepts and debates of sensory archaeology, providing overviews and commentaries on its methods and its place in interdisciplinary sensual culture studies. Through a set of thematic studies, they explore diverse sensorial practices, contexts and materials, and offer a selection of archaeological case-studies from different parts of the world. In the light of this, the research methods now being brought into the service of sensory archaeology are re-examined. Of interest to scholars, students and others with an interest in archaeology around the world, this book will be invaluable to archaeologists and is also of relevance to scholars working in disciplines contributing to sensory studies: aesthetics, anthropology, architecture, art history, communication studies, history (including history of science), geography, literary and cultural studies, material culture studies, museology, philosophy, psychology, and sociology.

List of figures List of tables List of plates Preface 1 Sensory archaeology: key concepts and debates Robin Skeates and Jo Day PART I: APPROACHES TO SENSORY ARCHAEOLOGY 2 Digging up the sensorium: on the sensory revolution in archaeology David Howes 3 Early theories of sense perception: Greek origins Han Baltussen 4 Doing sensory archaeology: the challenges Ruth Tringham and Annie Danis 5 How does it feel? Phenomenology, excavation and sensory experience: notes for a new ethnographic field practice Christopher Tilley 6 The senses in museums: knowledge production, democratization and indigenization Cara Krmpotich PART II: SENSORIAL PRACTICES, contexts and materials 7 Emotion and the senses in archaeology Ruth Nugent 8 Movement, materials and intersubjectivity: insights from western Ireland Ryan Lash 9 Sensing death and experiencing mortuary ritual Liv Nilsson Stutz 10 Environment and the senses Andrew Hoaen 11 Waterfalls and moving waters: the unnatural natural and flows of cosmic forces Terje Oestigaard 12 Darkness and light in the archaeological past: sensory perspectives Marion Dowd 13 The sensory archaeology of textiles Susanna Harris 14 Sensory perception and experience of glass Chloë N. Duckworth 15 Ceremonial architecture and public events Takeshi Inomata 16 Cities and urbanism Jeff Veitch 17 Warfare and the senses: archaeologies of the senses and sensorial archaeologies of recent conflict Matthew Leonard and Esther Breithoff 18 The sensory experiences of food consumption Erica Rowan PART III: Archaeological Case-studies by period and region 19 Stealing through the back door: sensory archaeology in the European Mesolithic Ben Elliott 20 Sensory archaeology in Scandinavia and Finland Astrid J. Nyland 21 Sensory Mediterranean prehistory Robin Skeates 22 Sensory approaches to the Aegean Bronze Age Jo Day 23 The sensory world of Mesopotamia Augusta McMahon 24 The sensory worlds of ancient Egypt Richard Parkinson 25 Classical archaeology and the senses: a paradigmatic shift? Heather Hunter-Crawley 26 Experimental archaeology and (re)-experiencing the senses of the medieval world Brendan O’Neill and Aidan O’Sullivan 27 Haptic vision: making surface sense of Islamic material culture Simon O’Meara 28 Sensorial experiences in Mesoamerica: existing scholarship and possibilities Sarah Newman 29 Sensory archaeology in the Pueblo Southwest Ruth M. Van Dyke 30 Sensory approaches to the woodland and Mississippian cultures of the Eastern Woodlands of North America Corin C.O. Pursell 31 Sensory archaeology in the Pacific Tim Thomas 32 Afterword: sensory archaeology?a work in progress Robin Skeates and Jo Day Index

Robin Skeates is a Professor at Durham University, UK. His research and publications explore a wide variety of themes within the overlapping fields of material, visual and sensual culture studies and museum and heritage studies. He is author of An Archaeology of the Senses: Prehistoric Malta, which combines his specialist interests in sensory archaeology and Central Mediterranean prehistory. Jo Day is Assistant Professor in Greek Archaeology and Curator of the Classical Museum at University College Dublin, Republic of Ireland. She edited Making Senses of the Past: Toward a Sensory Archaeology and continues to research archaeology and the senses, especially relating to the Aegean Bronze Age. She also works on early ceramic technology and ancient foodways.