Books in progress

The archaeological imagination - a manifesto for Left Coast Press - to be finished in Spring 2007

A chorography of central Greece - a work in progress with Chris Witmore - will be finished by the end of summer 2007 after some final fieldwork

Conversations through archaeology - since 1999 Bill Rathje and I have held a series of conversations with a host of archaeologists who have visited our new Archaeology Center at Stanford. We have talked about their experiences of the discipline, their thoughts about what matters in archaeology and where it is going. We have recorded, transcribed and annotated the conversations and think the result gives a fascinating insight into the state of archaeology - a text(book) that combines the personality of some of its chracters with the immediacy of personal engagement - and the notes take the reader deep into the real work of archaeology. With Lewis Binford, Victor Buchli, Meg Conkey, Ian Hodder, Kristian Kristiansen, Mark Leone, Randall McGuire, Mary and Adrian Praetzellis, Colin Renfrew, Michael Schiffer, Alain Schnapp, Patty Jo Watson, Alison Wylie. To be completed early in 2007.

Archaeology - the discipline of things - a book in progress with Bjornar Olsen, Tim Webmoor and Chris Witmore.

[Borderlands] - Tyne to Tweed - a regional archaeology of the Roman north - as chorography - I expect to begin writing after the summer season of 2007 - the project will have a significant web manifestation - follow the progress and process at http://metamedia.stanford.edu/projects/michaelshanks/borderlands

Origins - how new archaeological thinking is changing the way we understand history - a long term book project exploring the big picture of human history that only archaeology can afford

Books in print

Archaeologies of the Modern - edited with Jeffrey Schnapp and Matthew Tiews - 2004
(Special issue of the journal Modernism/Modernity)

Theatre/Archaeology - with Mike Pearson - 2001

Art and the Early Greek State - 1999

Classical Archaeology of Greece - 1996

Interpreting Archaeology: Finding Meaning in the Past - edited with Ian Hodder, Alexandra Alexandri, Victor Buchli, John Carman, Jonathan Last and Gavin Lucas - 1995

Experiencing the Past - 1992

ReConstructing Archaeology - with Chris Tilley - 1987

Social Theory and Archaeology - with Chris Tilley - 1987

Some papers, essays, articles

Digital media, agile design and the politics of archaeological authorship in T. Clack and M. Brittain (eds) Media and Archaeology, University College London Press, in press. New approaches to the deisgn of information in an heretical empirics. A talk originally given at TAG 2004, Glasgow.

Postprocessual archaeology and after in C. Chippindale and H. Maschner (eds) Handbook of Archaeological Method and Theory, Walnut Creek, Altamira, in press

Symmetrical archaeology TAG (Theoretical Archaeology Group) Sheffield UK, December 2005

The science question in archaeology - 4S (Society for Social Studies of Science) conference October 2005 Pasadena California - [link]

Archaeology, Modernism, Modernity Editors’ introduction to “Archaeologies of the Modern,” a special issue of Modernism/Modernity 11:1–16 (2004)

The Perfume of Garbage: Modernity and the Archaeological with William L. Rathje and David Platt, Modernism/Modernity 11:61–83 (2004)

Three rooms: archaeology and performance Journal of Social Archaeology 4: 147–180 (2004)

Media - eigenvectors - defining the design characteristics of media in the light of information science and technology - a conversation between media architect Sam Schillace and Michael Shanks

Metamedia - a discussion document [link] from the consolidation of my lab (Metamedia) in 2003 - originally drafted with Cliff McLucas in Sicily in 1999 - first definition of medium as "mode of engagement"

Archaeology/politics in J. Bintliff (ed) The Blackwell Companion to Archaeology, Oxford, Blackwell, 2004

Archaeology - the implications for historiography. Microlecture in Traumwerk - CHAT Conference Bristol 2003 - [link]

Towards an archaeology of performance Paper introducing and discussing the session Creating an archaeology of performance, SAA Meetings, Denver 2002

The future of the past in post-industrial society Lecture delivered in Örebro 2001. Later appeared in H. Westin (ed) Industrial Heritage as Force in Democratic Society, Stockholm, National Heritage Board, 2001

Culture/Archaeology: the dispersion of a discipline and its objects in I. Hodder (ed) Archaeological Theory Today: Breaking the Boundaries, Cambridge, Blackwell Polity, 2001

Photography and the archaeological image - in B. Molyneaux (ed) The Cultural Life of Images: Visual Representation in Archaeology, London, Routledge, 1997

Landscape - Bohuslän with Mark Johnson. World Archaeology Congress, Delhi 1994. Moving from and against phenomenological understanding of landscape

The archaeological imagination - for Evzen Neustupny in M. Kuna and N. Venclová (eds) Whither archaeology: archaeology at the end of the millennium: papers dedicated to Evzen Neustupny, Archaeological Institute, Prague 1993

The life of an artifact Lecture (edited) delivered in Leiden - 1993. Later appeared in Fennoscandia Archeologica 15:15–42 (1998)

Archaeologies of the contemporary past Lecture (edited and translated from the original French) delivered in Paris - 1993. Later appeared in A. Schnapp (ed) Une Archéologie du Passé Récent?, Paris, Fondation Maison des Sciences de L’Homme, 1997

e-publication

Traumwerk - archaeological dreamwork

Weblog - all things archaeological

Three Rooms - an archaeology of three performances

Sicily - 33 archaeological moments

Microlecture - archaeology's implications for writing history

Archaeology::three antitheses

see Traumwerk