http://archaeographer.stanford.edu

For two years up to October 2005 I published a running commentary on all things archaeological. I stopped because I felt that I began repeating myself, albeit on fresh news items. The arguments I was making about archaeology's place in contemporary society will appear in a book for Left Coast Press - The Archaeological Imagination - explorations of an archaeological sensibility.

Categories include

• the cultural politics of archaeology

• the shape of history being revealed by archaeological research

• heritage

• media archaeology

• the uncanny

• contemporary art and archaeology

• the archaeological imagination

Last posts -

Latest from Michael Shanks [RSS]:

• update and status
• found photos
• Mortal remains, guilt and the loss of the past
• “Heritage USA”
• Neanderthals ’sang and danced’
• the photographs of Edward Burtynsky
• Gary Hill’s theatre/archaeology at the Colosseum
• Charles Redman on environmental politics
• Invented traditions - the case of the Percy family and Alnwick Castle - home of Harry Potter
• collecting culture and intellectual property