Making senses of the past : toward a sensory archaeology / edited by Jo Day.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Dib�ewagendamowin-Krohirohi: Reflections on Sacred Images on the Rock / William A. Allen, Gerard O'Regan, Perry Fletcher, and Roger Noganosh -- The sound of sulfur and smell of lightning: sensing the volcano / Karen Holmber -- Colored monuments and sensory theater among the Mississippians / Corin C. O. Pursell -- Maya palaces as experiences: ancient Maya royal architecture and its influence on sensory perception / Ryan Mongelluzzo -- Coming to our senses at Chav�in de Huantar / Mary Weismantel -- The sensory experience of blood sacrifice in the Roman imperial cult / Candace Weddle -- Embodying the divine: the sensational experience of the sixth-century eucharist / Heather Hunter-Crawley -- A sense of touch: "the full-body experience" in the past and present of �Catalh�oy�uk, Turkey / Ruth Tringham -- Musical space and quiet space in medieval monastic Canterbury / Joe Williams -- Sustenance, taste, and the practice of community in ancient Mesopotamia / Marie Hopwood -- The scent of status: prestige and perfume at the Bronze Age palace at Pylos, Greece / Joanne M. A. Murphy -- A whiff of mortality: the smells of death in Roman and Byzantine Beth She'an-Scythopolis / Emerson Avery -- Imagined aromas and artificial flowers in Minoan society / Jo Day -- Craft and sensory play in late Bronze Age Boeotia / Anastasia Dakouri-Hild -- Scents and sensibilities: the phenomenology of late Neolithic Iberian slate plaque production / Jonathan T. Thomas -- The production process as sensory experience: making and seeing iron in colonial New England / Krysta Ryzewski -- Beyond the display case: creating a multisensory museum experience / Catherine P. Foster -- Imagined narratives: sensuous lives in the Chacoan Southwest / Ruth M. Van Dyke -- Afterword: eleven theses on the archaeology of the senses / Yannis Hamilakis.

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