Readings (sample from the Fall 2017 course)

September 1, 2017

Required:

DeBoer, Warren B. 1999 Metaphors we dig by. Anthropology News 40(7):7-8.
Holtorf, Cornelius 2008 Popular Culture and Archaeology. Encyclopedia of Archaeology, edited by Deborah Pearsall, pp. 1859-1868. Academic Press, New York.
Russell, Miles 2002 No more heroes any more:” The dangerous world of the pop culture archaeologist. In Digging holes in popular culture: archaeology and science fiction, edited by Miles Russell, pp. 38- 54. Oxbow, Oxford.
Membury, Steven 2002 The Celluloid Archaeologist: An X-rated expose. In Digging holes in popular culture: archaeology and science fiction, edited by Miles Russell, pp. 8-18. Oxbow, Oxford. pp. 8-18.

Choice of two:

Hall, Mark 2004 Romancing the Stones: Archaeology in Popular Cinema. European Journal of Archaeology 7(2):159–176.
Schablitsky, J. M. and N. J. Hetherington 2012 Archaeology on the screen. In Archaeology in Society: Its Relevance in the Modern World, edited by M. Rockman and J. Flatman, pp. 139-152. Springer, New York.
Seidemann, Ryan M. 2013 Maybe Indiana Jones isn’t so bad after All Survey Results of Media Influences on Liberal Arts Students. The SAA Archaeological Record 13(4):23-25.

Optional:

Smith, Stuart Tyson 2007 Unwrapping The Mummy: Hollywood Fantasies, Egyptian Realities. In Box Office Archaeology: Refining Hollywood’s Portrayals of the Past, edited by Julie M. Schablitsky, pp. 16-33. Left Coast Press, Walnut Creek.
Holtorf, Cornelius 2006 Archaeology and the Dream Society. In Images, Representations and Heritage. Moving beyond Modern Approaches to Archaeology, edited by Ian Russell, pp. 161-176. Springer- Kluwer, New York.
Holtorf, Cornelius 2007 An archaeological fashion show: how archaeologists dress and how they are portrayed in the media. In Archaeology and the Media, edited by Timothy Clack and Brittain, Marcus pp. 69-88. Left Coast Press, Walnut Creek, CA.

September 6, 2017

Required:

Gero, Joan and Dolores Root 1990 Public presentation and private concerns: Archaeology in the pages of National Geographic. In The Politics of the Past, edited by P. Gathercole and D. Lowenthal, pp. 19- 37. Routledge, New York.
Parker, Evan A. 2016 The Proliferation of Pseudoarchaeology through “Reality” Television Programming. In Lost City, Found Pyramid Understanding Alternative Archaeologies and Pseudoscientific Practices, edited by J. J. Card and David Anderson, pp. 149-166. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.
Pyburn, K. Anne and Richard R. Wilk 1995 Responsible Archaeology is Applied Archaeology. In Ethics in American Archaeology: Challenges of the 1990s, edited by Mark Lynott and Alison Wylie, pp. 71-76. Society for American Archaeology. Washington DC.

Optional:

Finn, Christine 2001 Mixed messages: Archaeology and the media. Public Archaeology 1(4):261-268.
Society for American Archaeology 2015 Archaeological Practice on Reality TV (Theme Issue). SAA Archaeological Record 15(2).
Morgan, Colleen 2014 Archaeology and the Moving Image, Public Archaeology 13(4):323-344.
Sabloff, Jeremy 2008 Chapter 8: Epilogue [Writing for the Public]. In Archaeology Matters: Action Archaeology in the Modern World, Left Coast Press, Walnut Creek, pp. 103-110.
Sabloff, Jeremy 1998 Communication and the Future of American Archaeology. American Anthropologist 100(4):869-875.

September 11, 2017

Choice of four:

Mann, Alan E. 2003 Imagining prehistory: Pictorial reconstructions of the way we were. American Anthropologist 105(1):139-148.
Moser, Stephanie 2001 Archaeological Representation: The Visual Convention of Constructing Knowledge About the Past. In Archaeological Theory Today, edited by Ian Hodder, pp. 262-283. Polity Press, Cambridge
Koepfer, Diana L. 2003 Representation and Aesthetics in Paleo-Art: An Interview with John Gurche. American Anthropologist 105(1):146-148
Gifford–Gonzalez, Diane 1993 You Can Hide, But You Can't Run: Representations of Women's Work in Illustrations of Palaeolithic Life. Visual Anthropology Review 9(1): 22–41.
Moser, Stephanie and Clive Gamble 1997 Revolutionary Images: The Iconic vocabulary for Representing Human Antiquity. In The Cultural Life of Images: Visual Representations in Archaeology, edited by Brian Leigh Molyneaux, pp. 184-212, Routledge, London.

September 22, 2017

Badler, V., J. Kider Jr., M. Moore, B. Walter, and N. Badler. Accurate Soil and Mudbrick BRDF Models for Archaeological Illumination Rendering with Application to Small Finds. Paper presented in the EUROGRAPHICS Workshop on Graphics and Cultural Heritage, 2017, T. Schreck and T. Weyrich (Editors)

September 27, 2017

At least two of:

Ambrus, Victor and Mick Aston 2001 Recreating the Past. Tempus Publishing, Stroud, Gloustershire, England.
Davison, Brian 1984 Picturing the Past: Through the Eyes of Reconstruction Artists. English Heritage Gatekeepers Series, Cadw.
Redknap, Mark 2002 Re-Creations: Visualizing Our Past. National Museums & Galleries of Wales and Cadw, Cardiff.
Sorrell, Mark ed. 1981 The Artist and the Reconstruction. In Alan Sorrell: Reconstructing the Past. Batsford, London, pp. 20-26. [plus misc. images from 1980 Alan Sorrell: Early Wales Reconstructed. National Museum of Wales, Cardiff.]
Sorrell, Mark 2013 Sorrell on Sorrell Memories of the Art and Life of Alan Sorrell (1904-74). British Art Journal 14(2):81-85.
Perry, Sara and Matthew Johnson 2014 Reconstruction Art and Disciplinary Practice: Alan Sorrell and the Negotiation of the Archaeological Record. The Antiquaries Journal 94:323-352.
Schober, Theresa M. (editor) 2013 ArtCalusa: Reflections on Representation [exhibit catalog] Lee Trust for Historic Preservation, Naples, FL.
Phillips, James E. 2006 “To make the dry bones live": Am d e Forestier's Glastonbury lake village. In Envisioning the Past: Archaeology and the Image, edited by Smiles, Sam and Stephanie Moser, pp. 72- 91. Blackwell, Malden MA.
Pate, Martin 2003 Archaeology in Two Dimensions: The Artist's Perspective. In Ancient Muses: Archaeology and the Arts, edited by John H. Jameson, Jr., John E. Ehrenhard, and Christine A. Finn, pp. 49-56. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa. [plus images].
Lovata, Troy 2008 People Make Fire: Archaeology and the Art of Sonja Stiefel. Public Archaeology 7(2):101–113.
James, Simon 1996 Drawing Inferences: Visual Reconstructions in Theory and Practice. In The Cultural Life of Images: Visual Representation in Archaeology, edited by B. L. Molyneaux, pp. 22-48. Routledge, London.
Piggott, Stuart 1950 Antiquity Depicted: Aspects of Archaeological Illustration. Thames and Hudson, London.
Carter, Alice 1999 The Art of National Geographic: A Century of Illustration. National Geographic, Washington DC.
National Geographic Society 1998 Inside Out: The Best National Geographic Diagrams and Cutaways. National Geographic Society, Washington DC.
James, Simon 2015 'Visual competence’ in archaeology: a problem hiding in plain sight. Antiquity 89(347):1189-1202.

September 29, 2017

At least two of:

Swogger, John G. 2000 Image and Interpretation: The Tyranny of Representation? In Towards Reflexive Method In Archaeology: The example at Çatalhöyük / by members of the Çatalhöyük teams; edited by Ian Hodder. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge; Oxford : Distributed by Oxbow Books, pp. 143-153.
Swogger, John G. 2015 Ceramics, Polity, and Comics: Visually Re-Presenting Formal Archaeological Publication. Advances in Archaeological Practice 3(1):16–28.
Swogger, John G. 2016 Archaeological Illustration and Comics (homepage and blog). https://johngswogger.wordpress.com/
Allen, Mitch 2005 Charlie Brown in the Classroom: Comics and other Incendiary Devices for Teaching Archaeology. The SAA Archaeological Record 5(5):9-12.
de Boer, Trent 2006 The Archaeological Zine Shovel Bum. The SAA Archaeological Record 5(5) 19–21. [Also look at the book Shovel Bum by T. de Boer at Penn Museum Library].
Lovata, T R 2004 Putting Shovel Bum in Context: Why a View from the Shovel Handle Matters. In Shovel Bum: Comix of Archaeological Field Life, edited by Trent de Boer, pp. 115-127. AltaMira Press, Walnut Creek CA. [Also look at the book Shovel Bum by T. de Boer].
Loubser, Jannie 2005 Beyond the Cartesian Grid, or, Between the Comic Cells. The SAA Archaeological Record 5(5): 13-18.
Lovata, Troy 2007 Chapter 5 Three Artists on Archaeology: Interview Number Two: Visualizing the Bronze Age (Eric Shanower). In Inauthentic Archaeologies: Public Uses and Abuses of the Past. Left Coast Press, Walnut Creek, pp. 112-122.
Parno, Travis G. 2010 Snapshots of History and the Nature of the Archaeological Image. Archaeologies: Journal of the World Archaeological Congress 6(1):115-137.
Collart, Bartley n.d. The Secret in the Cellar: A Written in Bone forensic mystery from colonial America. Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington DC. http://anthropology.si.edu/writteninbone/comic/ and Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History n.d. Written in Bone: Forensic Files of the 17th - Century Chesapeake. Educator’s Manual. Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington DC. [pdf file]
Roveland, Blythe E. 1993 Visual Child the Creator: Children as Agents of Change in Juvenile Prehistoric Literature. Anthropology Review 9(1): 147–153.
Brinkmeier, Dan 2003 Art in the service of science: Using art to explain archaeology and field research. Unpublished document.
de Boer, Trent 2004 Shovelbum: Comix of Archaeological Field Life, Alta Mira Press, Walnut Creek, CA. Penn Museum Library
de Boer, Trent 2004 Afterword. In Shovelbum: Comix of archaeological field life, Alta Mira Press, Walnut Creek, CA.
Goscinny, R. and A. Uderzo 1969 Asterix the Gaul. (Translation: Bell, A., Hockridge, D.), Hodder and Stoughton, London.
Swogger, J.G. with S. Atalay and B. Tung 2005 Nedir Çatalhöyük? Çatalhöyük Research Project.
Swogger, J.G. with S. Fitzpatrick, M. Kappers, and Q. Kaye 2012 Archaeology in the Caribbean, Grenadian Voice (forthcoming; select pages online at: http://johngswogger.wordpress.com/archaeology- in-the-caribbean/)
Shanower, Eric 2004 Age of Bronze: A Thousand Ships, Sacrifice and Betrayal (three separate volumes). Image Comics, Orange, California. [Two volumes have been published so far, A Thousand Ships and Sacrifice, the third volume, Betrayal, is in progress]
Museum Library and PDF file excerpt “ShanowerAgeOfBronzeComic2003Excerpt”
Shanower, Eric 2005 The Art of the Graphic Novel. The Alan Review Winter (2005):32-36. Shanower, Eric 2005 Archaeology of the Trojan War. The SAA Archaeological Record 5(5)::30-35.

Optional:

Erickson, Clark and Daniel Brinkmeier 2007 Pre-Columbian Fishermen of the Bolivian Amazon: Indigenous Technology and the Transformation of the South American Landscape. Harris Loan Department, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago.
Brinkmeier, Daniel, Clark Erickson, and Ignacio Garaycochea 1986 Como construir waru waru. Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología, Lima.
Brinkmeier, Daniel, Clark Erickson, and Kay Candler 1986 Antonio and the Waru Waru. (bilingual manual about raised fields in English and Quechua), Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia, Lima.

October 9, 2017

Required:

Clados, Christiane 2004 Christiane Clados: Reconstructing the Pre-Columbian World. University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Clados. Christine 2004 Christiane Clados: Reconstructing the Pre-Columbian World: Teachers Guide. University of Wisconsin, Madison (online) [excellent example of how archaeological data informs art] http://www.lindakreft.com/home.html
Solometo, Julie and Joshua Moss 2013 Picturing the Past: Gender in National Geographic Reconstructions of Prehistoric Life. American Antiquity 78(1):123-146.
Mortensen, Lena 2004 The “Marauding Pagan Warrior” Women. In Ungendering Civilization, edited by K. Anne Pyburn, pp. 94-116. Routledge, New York.

Optional:

Meskell, Lynn 1995 Goddesses, Gimbutas and "New Age" Archaeology. Antiquity 69:74-86.
Conkey, M. and R. Tringham 1994 Archaeology and the Goddess: Exploring the Contours of Feminist Archaeology. In Feminisms in the Academy: Rethinking Disciplines, edited by D. C. Stanton and A. J. Steward, pp. 199-247. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor.

October 11, 2017

Tiballi, Anne 2014 Weaving the Body Politic: The integration of Technological Practice and Embodied Social Identity in the Late Prehispanic Andes. In Textiles, Technical Practice, and Power in the Andes, edited by Denise Y. Arnold with Penelope Dransart, pp. 140-158. Archetype Publications, London.

October 18, 2017

Berggren, Åsa, Nicolo Dell’Unto, Maurizio Forte, Scott Haddow, Ian Hodder, Justine Issavi, Nicola Lercari, Camilla Mazzucato, Allison Mickel and James S. Taylor 2015 Revisiting reflexive archaeology at Çatalhöyük: integrating digital and 3D technologies at the trowel’s edge. Antiquity 89:433-448.

Choice of one:

Coben, Larry 2006 Incallajta, Performance Center of the Inkas: A Digital Reconstruction and Virtual Reality Analysis. In From Space to Place, edited by Stefano Campana and Maurizio Forte, pp. 401-405. BAR International Series, Oxford.
Johanson, Chris and Bernard Frischer 2008 Digital Model of the Inca Sanctuary of the Sun. In Beyond Illustration: 2D and 3D Digital Technologies as Tools for Discovery in Archaeology, Edited by Bernard Frischer and Anastasia Dakouri-Hild, pp. 299-315. BAR International Series 1805, Archaeopress, Oxford.

Optional:

Coben, Larry 2006 Other Cuzcos: Replicated Theaters of Inka Power. In Archaeology of Performance: Theaters of Power, Community, and Politics, edited by Takeshi Inomata and Lawrence S. Coben, pp. 223-260. Altamira Press, Lanham, MD.

October 25, 2017

Erickson, Clark 2017 Pre-Columbian Water Management in Lowland South America. In Water History and Humanity, edited by Vernon Scarborough, UNESCO Publishing, Paris.

October 30, 2017

Choice of three:

Rensberger, Boyce 1981 Facing the Past. Science 81 October:40-51.
Kähler, Kolja, J ̈org Haber, and Hans-Peter Seidel 2003 Reanimating the Dead: Reconstruction of Expressive Faces from Skull Data. ACM TOG (SIGGRAPH Conference Proceedings) 22(3):554–561.
Neave, R. A. H. and A. J. N. W. Prag 2005 The Skull as the Armature of the Face: Reconstructing Ancient Faces. In Images and Artefacts of the Ancient World, edited by Alan K. Bowman and Michael Brady, pp. 131-143. Oxford University Press for the British Academy, Oxford.
Linney, Alf, Joao Campos and Ghassan Alusi 2005 Reconstruction of a 3D Mummy Portrait from Roman Egypt. In Images and Artefacts of the Ancient World, edited by Alan K. Bowman and Michael Brady pp. 145-150. Oxford University Press for the British Academy, Oxford.

November 1, 2017

Choice of three:

Fowler-Williams, Lucy 2014 Beneath the Surface: Excavations at Sitio Conte. Expedition 56(3):17-20.
Hickman, Jane 2014 Peopling the past: A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Beneath the Surface: Life, Death, and Gold in Ancient Panama (interview with Clark Erickson and Kate Quinn) Expedition 56(3):21-25.
Barker, Alex W. 2010 Exhibiting Archaeology: Archaeology and Museums. Annual Review of Anthropology 39:293-208.

November 8, 2017

Shown Harjo, .Suzan"Threatened and Damaged: Protecting Sacred Places" Expedition Magazine 55.3 (2013): n. pag. Expedition Magazine. Penn Museum, 2013 Web. 07 Jan 2018
Kehoe, Alice B. "Can Native Voices Be Heard in Museums? (Shannon's Our Lives: Collaboration, Native Voice, and the Making of the National Museum of the American Indian)," Current Anthropology 57, no. 2 (April 2016): 241-242.
Bahrami, Beebe 2014 Know That We are Still Here. The Pennsylvania Gazette 112(6):28-35.
Atalay, Sonya 2006 No sense of the struggle: creating a context for survivance at the NMAI. American Indian Quarterly 30(3–4):597–618.
Murray, Tim 2011 Archaeologists and Indigenous People: A Maturing Relationship? Annual Review of Anthropology40:363–78.

November 15, 2017

Bogdanovych, A., J. A. Rodriguez, S. Simo, and A. Cohen 2009 Virtual Agents and 3D Virtual Worlds for Preserving and Simulating Cultures. IVA09.
Champion, Erik 2011 Chapter 2: Virtual Environments. In Playing with the Past. Springer, London, pp. 17-26.
Champion, Erik 2011 Chapter 5: Game-style Interaction. In Playing with the Past. Springer, London, pp. 83-128.
Chen, Shengnan, Zhigeng Pan, Mingmin Zhang, and Huaqing Shen 2011 A Case Study of User Immersion-based Systematic Design for Serious Heritage Games. Multimedia Tools and Applications manuscript No.?
Favro, Diane 2006 In the Eyes of the Beholder: Virtual Reality Re-Creations and Academia. Journal of Roman Archaeology 61:322-334.
Gillings, M. 2005 The real, the virtually real, and the hyperreal: The role of VR in archaeology. In Envisioning the past: Archaeology and the Image, edited by S. Moser and S. Smiles, pp. 223-239. Blackwell, New York.
Helling, Harry, Charlie Steinmetz, Eric Solomon, Bernard Fischer 2004 The Port Royal Project. A Case Study in the Use of VR Technology for the Recontextualization of Archaeological Artifacts and Building Remains in a Museum Setting. Acts of the 2004 Annual Meeting of CAA2004 (Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology), Prato, Italy, April 13-16, 2004
Watrall. Ethan 2014 Red Land/Black Land: Teaching Ancient Egyptian Archaeology through Digital Game-Based Learning. Advances in Archaeological Practice 2(1):38-49.

November 29, 2017

Watrall. Ethan 2014 Red Land/Black Land: Teaching Ancient Egyptian Archaeology through Digital Game-Based Learning. Advances in Archaeological Practice 2(1):38-49.
Ruaa, Helena and Pedro Alvito 2011 Living the past: 3D models, virtual reality and game engines as tools for supporting archaeology and the reconstruction of cultural heritage e the case-study of the Roman villa of Casal de Freiria. Journal of Archaeological Science 38:3296-3308.