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New Sensory Approaches to the Past
Applied Methods in Sensory Heritage and Archaeology
From thick description to autoethnography, a collection of some of the latest investigatory methodologies in sensory heritage work.
In recent years, archaeologists and other researchers dealing with heritage sites have increasingly emphasized the fact that people in the past interacted with their natural and built environment through all of their senses. In turn, they have come to acknowledge the limits of research methods that rely solely on visual analysis. Presenting studies of historical environments from multiple fields, from archaeology to acoustics, through the lens of the senses, New Sensory Approaches to the Past showcases the latest developments in sensory research through real-world scenarios of human-environment connections. Interdisciplinary examples of diverse sensory in-situ studies will enable readers to replicate and enhance their own investigations. Further, the volume pushes beyond historically Western frameworks of sensory perception towards a more global understanding of the senses.
In recent years, archaeologists and other researchers dealing with heritage sites have increasingly emphasized the fact that people in the past interacted with their natural and built environment through all of their senses. In turn, they have come to acknowledge the limits of research methods that rely solely on visual analysis. Presenting studies of historical environments from multiple fields, from archaeology to acoustics, through the lens of the senses, New Sensory Approaches to the Past showcases the latest developments in sensory research through real-world scenarios of human-environment connections. Interdisciplinary examples of diverse sensory in-situ studies will enable readers to replicate and enhance their own investigations. Further, the volume pushes beyond historically Western frameworks of sensory perception towards a more global understanding of the senses.
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Table of Contents
List of figures
List of tables
List of abbreviations
List of contributors
Preface
Acknowledgements
1 Pathways to a new sensory past: a summative critique
Sue Hamilton
Part I: Individual and self-registered sensing research
2 Sensing the void: exploring fragmentation through the senses at Rocky Point Amusement Park, Rhode Island, USA
Sarah Bell
3 Ancient olfactory materialities for divine encounters: reflections from Asian regions
Neha Khetrapal
4 Moving with time and space at the sanctuary of Juno, Gabii, Italy
Emma-Jayne Graham
5 Experimental multisensory survey of precolonial towns on the East African coast
Monika Baumanova
Part II: Collected, self-registering sensing research
6 From home to landscape: realising a multi-sensory field archaeology of social space
Sue Hamilton
7 Hidden battlefields: sensoriality and the underworlds of war, Hulluch, Northern France
Matthew Leonard
8 Scent surveys, decay, and transformation in the Kirkbride Plan hospitals of North America
Robert Kirkbride
9 Meaning gleaned in motion: public sensory heritage at the Dutch Fort bij Uithoorn
Pamela Jordan and Sara Mura
Part III: Externalized sensing research
10 Sounds from the roots: Sabil wa Kuttab Isma?il al-Maghlawi’s acoustics reconstruction and digital simulation, Historic Cairo, Egypt
Aliaa El-Dardiry, Ahmed Ali Elkhateeb and Ahmed El Antably
11 The archaeoacoustics of rock art sites: a methodological review
Margarita Díaz-Andreu, Lidia Álvarez-Morales and Neemias Santos da Rosa
12 More than one can see: sonic and visual experience and the Etruscan painted tomb space at the Necropoli dei Monterozzi, Tarquinia Italy
Jacqueline Ortoleva
13 Sensing what can’t be seen: augmenting experiential impressions of Etruscan Vulci through a remote sensing and GIS application
Antonio LoPiano
Epilogue
14 How scholars of archaeology and heritage have come to their senses (!)
David Howes
Index
List of tables
List of abbreviations
List of contributors
Preface
Acknowledgements
1 Pathways to a new sensory past: a summative critique
Sue Hamilton
Part I: Individual and self-registered sensing research
2 Sensing the void: exploring fragmentation through the senses at Rocky Point Amusement Park, Rhode Island, USA
Sarah Bell
3 Ancient olfactory materialities for divine encounters: reflections from Asian regions
Neha Khetrapal
4 Moving with time and space at the sanctuary of Juno, Gabii, Italy
Emma-Jayne Graham
5 Experimental multisensory survey of precolonial towns on the East African coast
Monika Baumanova
Part II: Collected, self-registering sensing research
6 From home to landscape: realising a multi-sensory field archaeology of social space
Sue Hamilton
7 Hidden battlefields: sensoriality and the underworlds of war, Hulluch, Northern France
Matthew Leonard
8 Scent surveys, decay, and transformation in the Kirkbride Plan hospitals of North America
Robert Kirkbride
9 Meaning gleaned in motion: public sensory heritage at the Dutch Fort bij Uithoorn
Pamela Jordan and Sara Mura
Part III: Externalized sensing research
10 Sounds from the roots: Sabil wa Kuttab Isma?il al-Maghlawi’s acoustics reconstruction and digital simulation, Historic Cairo, Egypt
Aliaa El-Dardiry, Ahmed Ali Elkhateeb and Ahmed El Antably
11 The archaeoacoustics of rock art sites: a methodological review
Margarita Díaz-Andreu, Lidia Álvarez-Morales and Neemias Santos da Rosa
12 More than one can see: sonic and visual experience and the Etruscan painted tomb space at the Necropoli dei Monterozzi, Tarquinia Italy
Jacqueline Ortoleva
13 Sensing what can’t be seen: augmenting experiential impressions of Etruscan Vulci through a remote sensing and GIS application
Antonio LoPiano
Epilogue
14 How scholars of archaeology and heritage have come to their senses (!)
David Howes
Index