This was my webite from 2006-2009. My new website is now located at: http://humanitieslab.stanford.edu/ChristopherWitmore/Home [link]

***Books (in preparation)*** (a combination of unfortunate setbacks and overcommitments have delayed the dates, but thing are finally back on track!)

• Open Pastsforthcoming 2011
• From Isthmus to Gulf: A Chorography of the Eastern Morea(Co-author with M. Shanks) forthcoming 2011
• Conversations through Archaeology, (Co-editor with B. Rathje and M. Shanks) forthcoming 2010
• Archaeology: The discipline of things (Co-author with B. Olsen, M. Shanks and T. Webmoor) University of California Press. forthcoming 2011

Journal Articles and Chapters in Books

• Archaeology in a Risk Society. (with M. Shanks) In I. Russell and S. Koerner (eds) Unquiet Pasts: Theoretical Perspectives on Archaeology and Cultural Heritage. forthcoming 2009
• (Dis)continuous Domains: A Case of ‘Multi-sited Archaeology’ from the Peloponnesus, Greece. In O. Harmansah (ed.) Drawing on Rocks, Gathering by the Water. forthcoming 2009
• "A politics of the past present: 4 quandaries for archaeology." In J. Dixon (ed.) Fragmenting Archaeology, or Taking a Leaf Out of Shanks and Tilley’s Book.British Archaeological Reports. forthcoming 2009
• "The world on a flat surface: Maps from the archaeology of Greece and beyond" In S. Bonde annd S. Houston (eds) Representing the Past. forthcoming 2010.
• "Archaeology: the states of affairs?" In W. Rathje, M. Shanks, and C. Witmore (eds.) Conversations through Archaeologyforthcoming 2010
• “AHR Conversation: History and Material Culture” (with L. Austander, A. Bentley, L. Halevi, and O. Sibum) American Historical Review, 114(5). 2009
• "Prolegomena to Open Pasts: On archaeological memory practices." In K. Ryzewski (ed.) Archaeology, Experience, Modes of Engagement, Archaeology, a special issue of Archaeologies5(3), 511-545. 2009
• "Things are Us! A Commentary on Human/Things Relations under the Banner of a ‘Social’ Archaeology." (Co-author with Timothy Webmoor) Norwegian Archaeology Review41(1), 53-70. 2008
• "Archaeology on the ground: The memory practices of David Webb." European Journal of Archaeology. 10(1), 85-89. 2008
• "William Martin Leake: a contemporary of P.O. Brøndsted in Greece and in London," (Co-author with T.V. Buttrey) in P.O. Brøndsted (1780-1842) - A Danish Classicist in his European context. Rasmussen, B.B., Jensen, J.S., Lund, J. and Märcher (eds) Historisk-filosofiske Skrifter 31, 15-34. 2008 Witmore&Buttrey2008.pdf
• "Symmetrical archaeology: Excerpts of a manifesto." World Archaeology. 546-562. 2007
• "Arqueología Simétrica. Un Manifiesto Breve". In González-Ruibal, A. (ed.) Arqueología Simétrica. Un Giro Teorico sin Revolucion Paradigmática. Complutum, 18, 305-313. 2007
• “Landscape, time, topology: An archaeological account of the southern Argolid Greece” in Envisioning Landscape: Situations and Standpoints in Archaeology and Heritage, Hicks, D., Fairclough, G. and McAtackney, L. (eds) One World Archaeology. 194-225. 2007
• "Vision, Media, Noise and the Percolation of Time: Symmetrical approaches to the mediation of the material world" Journal of Material Culture11(3), 267-292. 2006
• “On multiple fields. Between the material world and media: Two cases from the Peloponnesus, Greece” Archaeological Dialogues11(2), 133-164. 2004
• “Four archaeological engagements with place: mediating bodily experience through peripatetic video” The Visual Anthropology Review20(2), 57-72. 2004
• “Minerals and rocks” in Mochlos IC: Period III. Neopalatial settlements on the coast: The Artisans’ Quarter and the farmhouse at Chalinomoui. Soles, J.S. and Davaras, C. (eds) INSTAP Academic Press, 109-115 (with T. Carter). 2004
• “Editorial: the narrative act and archaeology” The Stanford Journal of Archaeology. 1 (with T. Jackman). [link]2002
• “The globalisation of archaeology and heritage: a discussion with Arjun Appadurai” Journal of Social Archaeology1(1), 35-49 (with A. Chadha, I. Hodder, and T. Jackman). 2001
• “Sacred Sun Centers” in Art and Archaeology of Ancient West Mexico. Townsend, R.F. (ed) London: Thames and Hudson, 137-149. 1998
• “Sea-level change associated with a Minoan harbor, Mochlos Crete,” Mochlos III. (To be published in the Mochlos Excavations Series with M. Lewis and J. Patton). forthcoming

Op-Ed, Commentaries, Book Reviews

• “Archaeology and the Media.” Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 19(2), 277-9. 2009
• ‘Popular culture’ and the archaeological imagination: A commentary on Cornelius Holtorf’s Archaeology is a Brand! (2007), Archaeolog. 2008
• The Endangered Future of the Past (with O. Harmansah), International Herald Tribune, December 21, 2007.
• "Archaeology and modernity or archaeology and a modernist amnesia?" Norwegian Archaeology Review, 39(1). 49-52. 2006
• Id quod facimus sumus! (We are what we do!) A commentary on Ethnographies of Archaeological Practice: Cultural Encounters, Material Transformations, Archaeolog2006
• Review of the Laconia Rural Sites Project, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2006.02.42 2006