Travels with an archaeologist : finding a sense of place / Richard Hodges.
"A memoir of travels by an eminent archaeologist and historian"--
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London ; New York, NY :
Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,
2017.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: An archaeologist's sense of the past
- [I] In the company of placemaking people
- In Charles Newton's shadow, searching for Demeter at Knidos
- Wim van Es and the discovery of the Dutch "Troy," Dorestad
- Johnny Mitchell and San Vincenzo al Volturno's first saint
- Riccardo and Quinto : place-making at "lost" Tuscan villages
- Breakfast with Colin Renfrew
- Reviewing Lisa Fentress at Alatri
- With Giussy Nicolini where the blue begins
- Remembering Albanian heroines
- [II] Finding the senses: Hearing
- Boreal Butrint and its golden oriels
- Sublimity : hidden in the togate's folds
- Fireworks at Copan
- [III] Sight
- Seeing beyond Sparta, Mistra
- Sights and sanctuary at Saranda
- Cavernous spectacles of colour : S. Michele at Olevano and the Crypt of the Original Sin
- A Renaissance dream house at Visegrád
- [IV] Smell
- The smell of the desert : Doha and Al Zubarah
- Smelling spices in Sana'a
- The disturbing scent of gold : Rosia Montana, Transylvania
- [V] Taste
- Tuscan cooking classes and S. Pietro d'Asso
- Red mullet and retsina on Aegina
- The taste of Key lime pie
- [VI] Touch
- Touching "gold" in Gordion
- In touch with Rome's ex-pat dead : Rome's non-Catholic cemetery
- Bunga bunga?