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Recently, I signed a contract with Oxford University Press for an interdisciplinary volume entitled\u00a0The Oxford Handbook of Light in Archaeology<\/em>. This book, which will be edited by myself and Graeme Earl, is\u00a0the\u00a0only book to date dedicated to the concept of light in archaeology, since existing work in this area is either specifically\u00a0related to forms of illumination, to isolated\u00a0case studies or to light in\u00a0literature and iconography.<\/p>\n This volume\u00a0will\u00a0undertake an interdisciplinary approach, by considering light in the context of humanities, architecture, engineering, computer science and the arts. As such,\u00a0it will serve to combine alternative culturally specific analyses of light and\u00a0an alternative approach to cultural studies. With increasing recognition by archaeologists and anthropologists that archaeological interpretations of space, form and behaviour are missing light as an essential element, this book breaks new ground by placing light at the heart of archaeological narratives from a broad region of the world and a broad sweep of time.<\/p>\n It will explore many dimensions of lighting and darkness in a wide range of dwellings, settlements, private and public spaces, monuments and religious buildings, as well as in various aspects of everyday life in the past and the present. The book will bring together diverse geographical and chronological studies, ranging from prehistory to the present and from Europe to America.<\/p>\n The book will be\u00a0divided in three sections:<\/p>\n I. Light in Religion, Worship and Rituals;<\/p>\n II. Natural and Artificial Light in Dwellings, Public Spaces and Working Environments;<\/p>\n III. Theorising Method: Design, Capture and Simulation of Light for Sites, Structures, Museums and Artefacts.<\/p>\n It will contain 34 chapters by most of the leading scholars in the field (alphabetical order):\u00a0Michael Ashley,\u00a0Mikkel Bille,\u00a0Eleni Bintsi,\u00a0Eva Bosch,\u00a0Efrosyni Boutsikas,\u00a0Jean-Philippe Carri\u00e9,\u00a0Eleftheria Deko,\u00a0Matt Gatton,\u00a0Drago\u015f Gheorghiou,\u00a0Lucy Goodison,\u00a0David Griffiths,\u00a0Yannis Hamilakis,\u00a0Jassim Happa,\u00a0Tim Ingold,\u00a0Malcolm Innes,\u00a0Andrew Jones,\u00a0Constantine M. Kapos,\u00a0Eleni Kotoula,\u00a0Eric Lapp,\u00a0Nessa Leibhammer,\u00a0Bob Miller,\u00a0Ioannis Motsianos,\u00a0Dorina Moullou,\u00a0Holley Moyes,\u00a0Axel E. Nielsen,\u00a0Timothy R Pauketat,\u00a0Paul Pettitt,\u00a0Joshua Pollard,\u00a0Iakovos Potamianos,\u00a0Maria Sardi,\u00a0Tim Flohr S\u00f8rensen,\u00a0Frangiskos V. Topalis,\u00a0Ruth M. Van Dyke,\u00a0William Walker,\u00a0Ian West,\u00a0Chris Woolgar,\u00a0Athanassia Zografou.<\/p>\n The volume is scheduled to be published in 2015 Recently, I signed a contract with Oxford University Press for an interdisciplinary volume entitled The Oxford Handbook of Light in Archaeology. This book, which will be edited by myself and Graeme Earl, is the only book to date dedicated to the concept of light in archaeology, since existing work in this area is either specifically related to forms of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,16,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acrg","category-archaeological-science-and-computing","category-blog","column","threecol"],"yoast_head":"\n
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