Archaeology and the Senses Human Experience, Memory, and Affect [Paperback]

An exciting look at how archaeology has dealt with the bodily senses and how it can offer a richer glimpse into the human sensory experience.This book proposes a novel framework for understanding the bodily senses and their interaction with things and environments. Yannis Hamilakis reviews and critiques the way archaeologists have dealt with the bodily senses and argues that the senses are innumerable and infinite, and that archaeologists can unearth lost, suppressed, and forgotten sensorial and affective processes. The book uses a range of contemporary and archaeological examples from different geographical contexts, and it finishes with an extended case study, looking at the burial practices and the palaces of Bronze Age Crete.This book proposes a novel framework for understanding the bodily senses and their interaction with things and environments. Yannis Hamilakis reviews and critiques the way archaeologists have dealt with the bodily senses and argues that the senses are innumerable and infinite, and that archaeologists can unearth lost, suppressed, and forgotten sensorial and affective processes. The book uses a range of contemporary and archaeological examples from different geographical contexts, and it finishes with an extended case study, looking at the burial practices and the palaces of Bronze Age Crete.This book is an exciting new look at how archaeology has dealt with the bodily senses and offers an argument for how the discipline can offer a richer glimpse into the human sensory experience. Yannis Hamilakis shows how, despite its intensely physical engagement with the material traces of the past, archaeology has mostly neglected multi-sensory experience, instead prioritizing isolated vision and relying on the Western hierarchy of the five senses. In place of this limited view of experience, Hamilakis proposes a sensorial archaeology that can unearth the lost, suppressed, and forgotten sensory and affective modalities of humans. Using Bronze Age Crete lÓ=