A selection
Books in progress
Ten Things - an archaeological view of design, closely connected with The Design of New Media - with Sam Schillace.
The archaeological imagination - a manifesto for Left Coast Press - to be finished in 2008
A chorography of central Greece - a work in progress with Chris Witmore - final fieldwork summer 2007 and spring 2008
Conversations through archaeology - MS and Bill Rathje with Sue Alcock, Lewis Binford, Victor Buchli, John Cherry, Meg Conkey, George Cowgill, Ian Hodder, Kristian Kristiansen, Mark Leone, Randall McGuire, Lynn Meskell, Mary and Adrian Praetzellis, Colin Renfrew, Michael Schiffer, Alain Schnapp, Patty Jo Watson, Alison Wylie. To be completed Spring 2008.
Archaeology - the discipline of things - a book in progress with Bjornar Olsen, Tim Webmoor and Chris Witmore. To be published by California University Press in 2009.
Borderlands - Tyne to Tweed - a regional archaeology of the Roman north - as chorography - I expect to begin writing after the summer season of 2008 - the project will have a significant web manifestation - http://documents.stanford.edu/chorography
Origins - how new archaeological thinking is changing the way we understand history - a long term book project exploring the big picture of human history that only archaeology can afford. I am still a long way off with this one, though a lot of the work I have done is informing Ten Things.
Books in print
Archaeologies of the Modern - edited with Jeffrey Schnapp and Matthew Tiews - 2004
(Special issue of the journal Modernism/Modernity)
Theatre/Archaeology - with Mike Pearson - 2001
Art and the Early Greek State - 1999
Classical Archaeology of Greece - 1996
Interpreting Archaeology: Finding Meaning in the Past - edited with Ian Hodder, Alexandra Alexandri, Victor Buchli, John Carman, Jonathan Last and Gavin Lucas - 1995
Experiencing the Past - 1992
ReConstructing Archaeology - with Chris Tilley - 1987
Social Theory and Archaeology - with Chris Tilley - 1987
Some papers, essays, articles, talks
Archive and memory in virtual worlds - for the Media X Annual Conference, Stanford - discussion with Pat Hanrahan, Vladlen Koltun, Byron Reeves and Jeremy Bailenson - March 2008
Entitled Opinions - with Robert Harrison - a radio talk on KZSU about the origins of agriculture (and much more) - February 5 2008
Artereality - a manifesto for arts education in the US - written with Jeffrey Schnapp (Stanford Humanities Lab). To appear in Steven Madoff (ed) The Future of Arts Education, MIT 2008.
TAG 2007 York UK - reworking Shanks and Tilley - a conference session looking back at my work in the 80s with Chris Tilley - December 2007.
Collaboration and research networks in the Humanities - Getty Research Institute - November 2007.
Life Squared - an animated archive - a talk in Manchester - Manchester Whitworth Gallery - November 2007 - A symposium on Lynn Hershman - 
Life-squared-Manchester.mov.
Beyond Powerpoint - Google tech talk on presentation software - November 2007.
With Lynn Hershman in Seed Magazine - October 2007 - discussing our particular conjuncture of art and science.
Cultural Property for the Oxford Companion to Law. To be published in August 2008.
Nine archaeological theses on design - ideas towards the book Archaeology - the discipline of things.
Symmetrical Archaeology - World Archaeology 39 (4): 589-96 (2007). Also appears in Spanish in Complutum 18: (2007)
Symbolic and structural archaeology Looking back over 25 years of archaeological thinking, 25 years since the publication of "Symbolic and structural archaeology" - just reprinted by Cambridge University Press. Thoughts about the book and its impact on archaeology - comments about the way archaeology works in universities, about communities of academics, rather than about the ideas behind processual and postprocessual archaeology.
Social theory - for a new encyclopaedia of archaeology.
An interview with Douglass Bailey - for Studii de Preistorie 3 : 5-10 (2005/2006) . (Bucharest). An IM conversation May 16 2006.
Collaboration Some experiences and comments. For a colloquium at Stanford Humanities Center. February 2007.
Archaeology and the visual More on media and archaeology, this time for the Sawyer seminar at Stanford Humanities Center - Visualizing Knowledge. January 2007.
Landscape, Archaeology, Chorography: encounters in the Scottish borders. A talk at Brown University, December 2006. Here I connect new ideas about media as mode of engagement (see below) with regional and landscape archaeology - sketching out deep mapping as a project in a contemporary chorography, that old antiquarian genre.
Media as modes of engagement - remarks on antiquarians in the Scottish borders. Society for the Social Study of Science, meetings in Vancouver November 2006. This reflects upon how media, new and old, work in scientific disciplines, indeed how we understand media generally. The idea of medium as mode of engagement is worked out here and in several other papers listed below.
Digital media, agile design and the politics of archaeological authorship in T. Clack and M. Brittain (eds) Media and Archaeology, Left Coast Press, 2007. New approaches to the design of information in an heretical empirics. A talk originally given at TAG 2004, Glasgow.
Postprocessual archaeology and after in C. Chippindale and H. Maschner (eds) Handbook of Archaeological Method and Theory, Walnut Creek, Altamira, 2007
Symmetrical archaeology - talk TAG (Theoretical Archaeology Group) Sheffield UK, December 2005
The science question in archaeology - 4S (Society for Social Studies of Science) conference October 2005 Pasadena California - [link]
Archaeology, Modernism, Modernity Editors’ introduction to [Archaeologies
of the Modern] a special issue of
Modernism/Modernity 11:1–16 (2004)
The Perfume of Garbage: Modernity and the Archaeological with William L. Rathje and David Platt, Modernism/Modernity 11:61–83 (2004) - Special Issue Archaeologies of the Modern
Three rooms: archaeology and performance Journal of Social Archaeology 4: 147–180 (2004)
Media - eigenvectors - defining the design characteristics of media in the light of information science and technology - a conversation between media architect Sam Schillace and Michael Shanks
Metamedia - a discussion document from the consolidation of my lab (Metamedia) in 2003 - originally drafted with Cliff McLucas in Sicily in 1999 - first definition of medium as "mode of engagement"
Archaeology/politics in J. Bintliff (ed) The Blackwell Companion to Archaeology, Oxford, Blackwell, 2004
Archaeology - the implications for historiography Microlecture in Traumwerk - CHAT Conference Bristol 2003 - [link]
Towards an archaeology of performance Paper introducing and discussing the session Creating an archaeology of performance, SAA Meetings,
Denver 2002
The future of the past in post-industrial society Lecture delivered in Örebro 2001. Later appeared in H. Westin (ed) Industrial Heritage as Force in Democratic Society, Stockholm, National Heritage Board, 2001
Culture/Archaeology: the dispersion of a discipline and its objects] in I. Hodder (ed) Archaeological Theory Today: Breaking the Boundaries, Cambridge, Blackwell Polity, 2001
Photography and the archaeological image - in B. Molyneaux (ed) The Cultural Life of Images: Visual Representation in Archaeology, London, Routledge, 1997
Landscape - Bohuslän with Mark Johnson. World Archaeology Congress, Delhi 1994. Moving from and against phenomenological understanding of landscape
The archaeological imagination - for Evzen Neustupny in M. Kuna and N. Venclová (eds) Whither archaeology: archaeology at the end of the millennium: papers dedicated to Evzen Neustupny, Archaeological Institute, Prague 1993
The life of an artifact Lecture (edited) delivered in Leiden - 1993. Later appeared in Fennoscandia Archeologica 15:15–42 (1998)
Archaeologies of the contemporary past Lecture (edited and translated from the original French) delivered in Paris - 1993. Later appeared in A. Schnapp (ed) Une Archéologie du Passé Récent?, Paris, Fondation Maison des Sciences de L’Homme, 1997
Critical romanticism on a visit to the past - outline of an archaeological poetics, heritage gratifications, and the archaeological imagination. A talk in Helsinki 1992.
e-publication
Traumwerk - archaeological dreamwork
Weblog - all things archaeological
Three Rooms - an archaeology of three performances
Sicily - 33 archaeological moments
Microlecture - Archaeology - implications for historiography
Microlecture - Archaeology::three antitheses
