THIS IS A PRELIMINARY SCHEDULE AND WILL UNDERGO REVISIONS
Week 1: January 26—Introduction: Archaeology, the ‘information age’ and the powers of a map
Week 2: February 2—Media, the message? Of artists and Antiquarians
- Readings--required
- McLuhan, M. 1994: Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. MIT Press. (All read the Lapham introduction along with Part 1 of McLuhan). Check out some of these McLuhanisms! Hot and cold media
- Te Heesen, A. 2005: The notebook: A paper technology. In Latour, B. and Weibel, P. (eds) Making Things Public. Atmospheres of Democracy. The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, pp. 582-589. file:734270]
- Schnapp, A. 1997: The discovery of the past. New York. (read the Introduction, Chapter 2—The Europe of the antiquaries—and Chapter 3—From Antiquary to Archaeologist. Pay close attention to the various plates).
- Readings--to be assigned
- McLuhan, M. 1994: Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. MIT Press. (Part 2 will be read by those selected.)
- Alpers, S. 1983: The art of describing: Dutch art in the seventeenth century. Chicago.
- Eisenstein. E.L., 1979: The Printing Press as an Agent of Change. Cambridge. (Parts 1 &2 only)
- Readings--supplementary
- Piggott, S. 1976: Ruins in a Landscape: Essays in Antiquarianism. Edinburgh.
Week 3: February 9— Or, media, the means and ends? The professionalization of archaeology
- Readings--required
- Latour, B. 1986: Visualization and cognition. Thinking with eyes and hands, in H. Kuklick, and E. Long (eds), Knowledge and society. Studies in the sociology of culture past and present Vol. 6, 1-40.
- Schnapp, A. 1997: The discovery of the past. New York. (Read Chapter 4—On the rejection of the natural history of man—and Chapter 5—The invention of archaeology. Pay close attention to the various plates). file:945073] file:946077]
- Thomas, J. 2004: Archaeology and Modernity. London: Routledge (Chapter 1 only).
- Also: Witmore, C.L. 2006. Archaeology and Modernity, or Archaeology and a Modernist Amnesia? Norwegian Archaeology Review 39(1). 49-52.
- Part 1 of Witmore, C. 2004: ‘On Multiple Fields. Between the Material World and Media: Two Cases from the Peloponnesus, Greece’, Archaeological Dialogues 11(2), 133-164. file:853690]
- Readings--to be assigned
- Eisenstein. E.L., 1979: The Printing Press as an Agent of Change. Cambridge. (part 3 only).
- Ivins, W.M., 1953: Prints and visual communication, Cambridge (Chapters 1-6).
- Ivins, W.M., 1973: On the rationalization of sight, New York.
Readings--supplementary
- Latour, B. 1987: Science in action. How to follow scientists and engineers through society, Cambridge, MA. (Chapter 6)
- Schnapp, A. 2002: Between antiquarians and archaeologists—continuities and ruptures. Antiquity 76, 134-140.
- For an extended treatment of the issues dealt with this week in the context of archaeology refer to: Witmore, C. 2005: Multiple field approaches in the Mediterranean: Revisiting the Argolid Exploration Project. Chapter 2 (social software version available at: [link])
Week 4: February 16—Vision, the photographic eye and faithful witnessing
- Readings--required
- Benjamin, W. 1973: The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. In H. Arendt (ed.) Illuminations. New York. Available here: [link] or download it: file:1016706]
- Lyons, C.L., J.K. Papadopoulos, L.S. Stewart, A. Szegedy-Maszak, 2005: Antiquity and Photography: Early Views of Ancient Mediterranean Sites, Getty Trust Publications: J. Paul Getty Museum (Introduction (pages 2-21), The art and science of antiquity in nineteenth-century photography (pages 22-65), and Antiquity depicted (pages 104-147)). file:1043826] file:1044935] file:1045458]
- Shanks, M., 1997: Photography and archaeology, in B.L. Molyneaux (ed.), The cultural life of images. Visual representation in archaeology, London, 74-107. [link] (on-line link)
- Witmore, C. 2006: Photography and the Making of Classical Archaeology in the 19th Century, Unpublished AIA lecture.
- Readings--to be assigned
- Crary, J., 1990: Techniques of the Observer. On Vision and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century. Cambridge.
- Trachtenberg, A. (ed.) 1980: Classic essays on photography. New Haven. (read the introduction and the following essays)
- Holmes, O.W. (1859) The stereoscope and the stereograph. 71-82.
- Robinson, H.P. (1896) Idealism, Realism, Expressionism. 91-97. file:1046134]
- Ivins, W.M. (1953) New reports and new vision: The nineteenth century. 217-236. (Chapter 7 from Prints and Visual Communication).
- Bazin, A. (1967) The ontology of the photographic image. 237-244. file:1047316]
Week 5: February 23—How do we archaeologists document the material pasts? The genre of the site/landscape report.
- Readings--required
- Gavin Lucas 2001: Critical approaches to fieldwork. Contemporary and historical archaeological practice, London.
- Comparative juxtaposition of any two of the following archaeological site/landscape reports.
- Conze, A., A. Hauser, and G. Niemann, 1875: Archäologische Untersuchungen auf Samothrake, Wien. Conze, A., A. Hauser, and O. Benndorf, 1880: Neue Untersuchungen auf Samothrake, Wien.
- Schliemann, H. (1886) Tiryns: The Prehistoric Palace of the Kings of Tiryns. London: John Murray.
- Curtius, E., 1890-1897: Olympia. Die ergebnisse der von dem Deutschen Reich veranstalteten ausgrabung, im auftrage des Königlich preussischen ministers der geistlicher, unterrishts-und medicinal-angelegenheiten hrsg, 5 vols, Berlin.
- Evans, A. 1921-35 The palace of Minos. London: London, Macmillan and Co.
- Wheeler, R.E.M. 1943: Maiden Castle, Dorset. Oxford: Research Reports for the Committee of the Society of Antiquaries, London.
- Bender, B., S. Hamilton and C. Tilley, 2006: Stone Worlds: Narrative and Reflexivity in Landscape Archaeology. Left Coast Press.
- Barrett, J.C., R. Bradley and M. Green 1991: Landscape, monuments, and society: the prehistory of Cranborne Chase, Cambridge University Press.
- Cherry, J.F., J.L. Davis and E. Mantzourani, 1991: Landscape archaeology as long-term history. Northern Keos in the Cycladic Islands, Los Angeles.
- Hodder, I. (ed.) 2005: Çatalhöyük perspectives: Reports from the 1995-1999 seasons. Cambridge.
- Hodder, I. (ed.) 2005: Inhabiting Çatalhöyük. Reports from the 1995-1999 seasons. Cambridge.
- Please suggest other site reports if you wish.
Week 6: March 2— Enter new (emergent) media
- Readings--required
- Clarke, D. 1973: Archaeology: the loss of innocence. Antiquity. 47, 6-18. file:1196593]
- Manovich, L., 2001: The Language of New Media, Cambridge, MA. (Chapters1-4). file:1185151] file:1189191] file:1190308] file:1191168]
- Zubrow, E.B. 2006: Digital archaeology: A historical context. In T.L. Evans and P. Daly 2006: Digital Archaeology: Bridging method and theory. Routledge. file:1183318]
- Huggett, J., 2000: Computers and archaeological culture change, in G. Lock and K. Brown (eds), On the Theory and Practice of Archaeological Computing, Oxford, 5-22. file:1182366]
Readings--to be assigned
- Lock, G. 2003: Using Computers in Archaeology. Toward Virtual Pasts, London: Routledge (Chapters 1, 3 and 4).
Week 7: March 9—Visualizing pasts I
- Readings--required
- Brik, O. 2003: What the eye does not see. In L. Wells (ed.) The Photography Reader. London: Routledge, 90-91. file:1237923]
- Fürstner, T. 2005: Narrative Device IV. In Latour, B. and Weibel, P. (eds) Making Things Public. Atmospheres of Democracy. The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, pp. 898-899. file:1195927]
- Manovich, L. 2003: The Paradoxes of Digital Photography. In L. Wells (ed.) The Photography Reader. London: Routledge, 240-249. file:1238806]
- Moser, S. and S. Smiles (eds) 2005: Envisioning the past: Archaeology and the image, Blackwell (Chapters 9 and 10). file:1184393] file:1192226]
- Shephard, N. ‘When the hand that holds the trowel is black…’ Disciplinary practices of self-representation and the issue of ‘native’ labour in archaeology. Journal of Social Archaeology 3(3), 334-352. file:1186776]
- Tringham, R. (in press) Forgetting and remembering the digital experience and digital data. In Boric, D. Excavating Memories. Oxbow Books. Available at: [link]
- Barthes, R. 2000: Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography. (R. Howard tr.) New York. (in fieldwork room!)
- Readings--to be assigned
- Berger, J. 1977: Ways of Seeing. London: Penguin.
- Mitchell, W.J. 1992: The reconfigured eye: Visual truth in the post-photographic era. Cambridge.
- We should also flip through Larsen, J.E., B. Olsen, A. Hesjedal and I. Storli, 1993: Camera archaeologica. Rapport fra et feltarbeid, Tromsø.
Week 8: March 16—Visualizing pasts II: Spatial imagery and simulation
- Readings--required
- Lock, G. 2003: Using computers in archaeology. Toward virtual pasts, London: Routledge (Chapters 2 and 5). file:1244472] file:1245878]
- Lock, G. and Z. Stancic (ed.) 1995: Archaeology and Geographical Information Systems: A European Perspective. London: Taylor and Francis Chapters 1, 26 and 27). file:1243552] file:1241079] file:1242225]
- Earl, GP. 2005: Video killed engaging VR? Computer Visualizations on the TV Screen. In Moser, S. and S. Smiles (eds) Envisioning the past: Archaeology and the image, Blackwell, 204-222. (Required Reading by All) file:1193727]
- Gillings, M. 2005: The real, the virtually real, and the hyperreal: The role of VR in archaeology. In Moser, S. and S. Smiles (eds) Envisioning the past: Archaeology and the image, Blackwell, 223-239 file:1194723]
- Ratto, M. (forthcoming) “Epistemic Commitments, Virtual Reality, and Archaeological Representation”, Proceedings of the International Union for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences XV, Lisbon, Portugal. file:1626155]
- Webmoor, T., 2005a: Mediational techniques and conceptual frameworks. A model in mapwork at Teotihuacan, Mexico, Journal of Social Archaeology. 5(1), 52-84.
- Readings--supplementary
- Barceló, J.A., M. Forte and D.H. Sanders (eds) 2000: Virtual Reality in Archaeology, BAR 843. Oxford: Archaeopress.
- Lock, G. and T. Harris, 1992: Visualizing spatial data: The importance of Geographic Information Systems. In P. Reilly and S. Rahtz (eds), Archaeology and the Information Age: A Global Perspective. London: Routledge.
Conference—March 16 and 17: Representing the Past: Archaeology through Image & Text
Week 9: March 23—Between seeing and listening to the material pasts
- Readings--required
- Ihde, D. Do things Speak?: Material Hermeneutics. Unpublished lecture. (thanks to Don!) file:1350701]
- Manovich, L., 2001: The Language of New Media, Cambridge, MA. (Chapter 6). file:1358737]
- Mills, S., 2005: Sensing the place: Sounds and landscape perception. In D.W. Bailey, A. Whittle and V. Cummings (eds), (Un)settling the Neolithic. Oxford: Oxbow, 79-89. file:1352793]
- Van Dyke, R. 2006. Seeing the Past: Visual Media in Archaeology, American Anthropologist 108(2), 370-384. file:1353683]
- Watson, A. and Keating, D. (1999) ‘Architecture and Sound: An Acoustic Analysis of Megalithic Monuments in Prehistoric Britain’, Antiquity 73, 325-336. file:1351243]
- Witmore, C.L. 2006. Vision, Media, Noise and the Percolation of Time. Symmetrical Approaches to the Mediation of the Material World. Journal of Material Culture 11(3), pp. 267-292. file:1349727]
- Readings--to be assigned
- Ihde, D. Art precedes science, or, did the camera obscura invent Modern Science? Unpublished lecture.
- Sterne, J. (2003) The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction. Durham: Duke University Press.
- Film and Flash
- Chadha, A. 2002: Rummaging for Pasts: Excavating Sicily, Digging Bombay. Available at: [link]
- Tringham, R., S. Mills and M. Ashley. 2006: Remediated Places: Senses of Places, the digital mediation of Cultural Heritage. Available at: [link]
- Webmoor, T., 2003: Teotihuacan, Mexico. Mediating monumentality: an experiment, Flash presentation at: [link]
- Witmore, C. 2004: One Hour at the Lion Gate of Mycenae, Flash presentation at: [link]
- The Archaeology Channel
Spring recess—no class: March 24—April 1
Week 10: April 6—Chris is away
- Potential workshop on GIS or Flash (to be determined)
Week 11: April 13—On the issue of translation and archive.
- Readings--required
- Bowker, G. 2005: Memory Practices in the Sciences, The MIT Press. All should have copy!
- Latour, B. 1999: Pandora’s Hope. Essays on the Reality of Science Studies. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. (Chapter 2) file:1467496]
- Shanks, M. (in press) Digital media, agile design and the politics of archaeological authorship. In T. Clack and M. Brittain (eds) Media and Archaeology. Left Coast Press. available at: [link]
- Readings--to be assigned
- Baines, A. and Brophy, K. 2006: What’s another word for thesaurus? Data standards and classifying the past. In T.L. Evans and P. Daly (eds) Digital Archaeology: Bridging method and theory. Routledge.
- Gero, J.M., 1996: Archaeological practice and gendered encounters with field data, in R.P. Wright (ed.), Gender and archaeology, Philadelphia, 251-280.
- Manovich, L., 2001: The Language of New Media, Cambridge, MA. (Chapter 5).
- Schlanger, N. 2004: The past is in the present. On the history and archives of archaeology, Modernism/modernity, 11(1), 165-167.
- Readings--Supplementary
- Witmore, C. 2004: ‘On Multiple Fields. Between the Material World and Media: Two Cases from the Peloponnesus, Greece’, Archaeological Dialogues 11(2), 133-164. (Part 2 only)
- Digital media
- AREA Archives of European Archaeology: [link] or [link]
Spring weekend—no class: April 18—22
Week 12: April 27—The politics of representation
- Readings--required
- Himmelsbach, S. 2005: Blogs. The new public forum: Private matters, political issues, corporate interests. In Latour, B. and Weibel, P. (eds) Making Things Public. Atmospheres of Democracy. The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, pp. 916-921. file:1627438]
- Hodder, I., 1999: The Archaeological Process. An introduction, Oxford. (Chapter 10) file:1628577]
- Olsen, B., 2006: Scenes from a troubled engagement. Post-structuralism and material culture studies, in C. Tilley, W. Keane, S. Kuechler, M. Rowlands, and P. Spyer (eds), Handbook of Material Culture. London, 85-103. file:1630169]
- Latour, B. and P. Weibel 2002: iconoclash: Beyond the Image Wars in Science, Religion, and Art. Karlsruhe: ZKM. Read introduction (available through this link) and flip through book in fieldroom.
- Webmoor, T. 2005b: Social Software, Science Studies and Mediational Archaeology, Stanford: Metamedia, [link]
- Russell, I. (ed.) 2006: Images, Representations and Heritage: Moving beyond Modern Approaches to Archaeology, Springer. (Introductions, 1-38.) file:1629827]
- Also to be assigned:
- McDavid, C. 1998: Archaeology and “The Web”: Writing Multi-linear Texts in a Multi-centered Community [link]
- Other media
- Shanks, M. 2004: Media and the Archaeological Witness. Weblog entry: [link]
Week 13: May 4— Media archaeology, posthuman, and biocultural futures
- Readings--Required
- Manovich, L. 2006: Visual technologies as cognitive prostheses: A short history of the externalization of the mind. In M. Smith and J. Morra (ed.) The Prosthetic Impulse: From a Posthuman to a Biocultural Future, The MIT Press.
- Zielinski, S., T. Druckrey, and G. Custance 2006. Deep Time of the Media: Toward an Archaeology of Hearing and Seeing by Technical Means, The MIT Press.
- Readings--to be assigned
- Hayles, N.K., 1999: How We became Posthuman. Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics, Chicago.
- Kittler, F. (1999) Gramophone, Film, Typewriter. (trans. G. Wintrop-Young and M. Wutz) Stanford: Stanford University Press.
- Concluding comments and summary
Week 14: May 11—Final project presentations
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