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Re-presenting the past
The archaeological past exists for us through intermediaries. Some are written works, descriptions, narratives and field notes, while others are visual: the drawings, paintings, photographs, powerpoints or computer visualizations that allow us to re-present past forms of human existence. This volume...
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| Document Type: | Online Resource Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford, UK ; Oakville, CT
: Oxbow Books
, [2013]
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| Series: | Joukowsky Institute publication
2 |
| Online Access: | http://proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/han/jstor-ebooks-altertum/www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvh1dr6h |
| Related Items: | Erscheint auch als:
Re-presenting the past |
| E-Book Packages: | JSTOR E-Books in Classical Studies |
| Summary: | The archaeological past exists for us through intermediaries. Some are written works, descriptions, narratives and field notes, while others are visual: the drawings, paintings, photographs, powerpoints or computer visualizations that allow us to re-present past forms of human existence. This volume brings together nine papers, six of which were presented at a symposium hosted at Brown University. Two papers explore the classical past and medieval visualizations. Three treat the Maya, and one considers the imaging by eighteenth-century antiquarians of British history; yet another ranges broadly in its historical considerations. Several consider the trajectory over time of visualization and self-imaging. Others engage with issues of recording by looking, for example, at the ways in which nineteenth-century excavation photographs can aid in the reconstruction of an inscription or by evaluating the process of mapping a site with ArcGIS and computer animation software. All essays raise key questions about the function of re-presentations of the past in current archaeological practice |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-203) and index |
| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 215 pages) illustrations, some color |
| ISBN: | 9781782972327 1782972323 9781782972341 178297234X |
