Travels with an Archaeologist: Finding a Sense of Place

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‘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. Cover page Halftitle page Series page Title page Copyright page Dedication Contents List of Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgements 1 Introduction: An Archaeologist’s Sense of the Past In the Company of Placemaking People 2 In Charles Newton’s Shadow: Searching for Demeter at Knidos 3 Wim van Es and the Discovery of the Dutch ‘Troy’, Dorestad 4 Johnny Mitchell and San Vincenzo al Volturno’s First Saint 5 Riccardo and Quinto – Placemaking at ‘Lost’Tuscan Villages 6 Breakfast with Colin Renfrew 7 Reviewing Lisa Fentress at Alatri 8 With Giussy Nicolini where the Blue Begins 9 Remembering Albanian Heroines Finding the Senses Hearing 10 Boreal Butrint and its Golden Oriels On a mission A liminal place Dave Hernandez’s dig 11 Sublimity: Hidden in the Togate’s Folds 12 Fireworks at Copán Sight 13 Seeing beyond Sparta: Mistra 14 Sights and Sanctuary at Saranda 15 Cavernous Spectacles of Colour: S. Michele at Olevano and the Crypt of the Original Sin 16 A Renaissance Dream House at Visegrád Smell 17 The Smell of the Desert: Doha and Al Zubarah 18 Smelling Spices in Sana’a 19 The Disturbing Scent of Gold: Roşia Montană, Transylvania Taste 20 Tuscan Cooking Classes and S. Pietro d’Asso 21 Red Mullet and Retsina on Aegina 22 The Taste of Key Lime Pie Touch 23 Touching ‘Gold’ in Gordion 24 In Touch with Rome’s Ex- pat Dead: Rome’s Non-Catholic Cemetery 25 Bunga Bunga ? Index