Archaeology in the Making is in production – [Link] I am editor with Bill Rathje and Chris Witmore. With many friends and colleagues we explore the human face of archaeology. Chris and I have added a post script to the Preface about Bill Rathje and Lew Binford. Lew Binford passed away during the final preparation…
Author: Michael Shanks
Olympics opening – (in)tangible heritage
London – the opening of the 30th Olympiad A bucolic pastoral green and pleasant land succumbing to dark satanic mills, in William Blake’s vision, homage also to Tolkein’s pitting of Hobbiton against Isengard’s tower; Shakespeare’s Tempest declaimed by Brunel on the slopes of a druidic oak-toppped Glastonbury Tor; dreams of Peter Pan and Mary Poppins;…
Warkworth – St Lawrence
Part of the ongoing series Lapidarium Septentrionale – [Link]
Warkworth, Northumberland
Another location in my ongoing regional study. Here to raise questions, again, of medium. How far can one go. Highly mannered. Overdramatized!
chorography – then and now
Chorography – a workshop at Durham University July 10 2012 – [Link] Summer fieldwork. I am less focused on the excavations at Binchester this year [Link]. I am pulling together my long-running research into the region – the English Scottish borders. How do you tell of such a place? All that is there, and has…
history is in the details?
Quotidian quiddity – the physiognomy of power. Cragside, Northumberland, estate of the nineteenth century industrial magnate and arms manufacturer, William Armstrong. [portfolio_slideshow] Visiting with Bianca (Carpeneti) and Chris (Witmore).
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