Travels with an Archaeologist

Richard Hodges OBE, is President of The American University of Rome, Italy. He is the editor of the Debates in Archaeology series; and his many publications include The Archaeology of Mediterranean Placemaking (Bloomsbury 2016) and Dark Age Economics (Bloomsbury 2012). He has previously been Scientific Director the Butrint Foundation and Director of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, USA, and writes widely for magazines.

List of Illustrations
Preface and acknowledgements
1. Introduction: An archaeologist’s sense of the past
Part 1 In the Company of Placemaking People
2. In Charles Newton’s Shadow: Searching for Demeter at Knidos
3. Wim van Es and the Discovery of the Dutch ‘Troy’, Dorestad
4. Johnny Mitchell and San Vincenzo al Volturno’s First Saint
5. Riccardo and Quinto – Place-making at ‘Lost’ Tuscan villages
6. Breakfast with Colin Renfrew
7. Reviewing Lisa Fentress at Alatri
8. With Giussy Nicolini where the Blue Begins
9. Remembering Albanian Heroines
Part 2 Finding the senses
Hearing
10. Boreal Butrint and its Golden Oriels
11. Sublimity: Hidden in the Togate’s Folds
12. Fireworks at Copán
Sight
13. Seeing beyond Sparta: Mistra
14. Sights and sanctuary at Saranda
15. Cavernous Spectacles of Colour: S. Michele at Olevano and the Crypt of the Original Sin
16. A Renaissance Dream House at Visegrád
Smell
17. The smell of the Desert: Doha and Al Zubarah
18. Smelling Spices in Sana’a
19. The Disturbing Scent of Gold - Rosia Montana, Transylvania
Taste
20. Tuscan Cooking Classes and S.Pietro d’Asso
21. Red Mullet and Retsina on Aegina
22. The taste of Key Lime Pie
Touch
23. Touching ‘Gold’ in Gordion
24. In touch with Rome’s Ex-pat dead: Rome’s Non-Catholic Cemetery
25. Bunga bunga?
Index