Travels with an Archaeologist

List of IllustrationsPreface and acknowledgements1. Introduction: An archaeologist's sense of the pastPart 1 In the Company of Placemaking People2. In Charles Newton's Shadow: Searching for Demeter at Knidos3. Wim van Es and the Discovery of the Dutch 'Troy', Dorestad4. Johnny Mitchell and San Vincenzo al Volturno's First Saint5. Riccardo and Quinto - Place-making at 'Lost' Tuscan villages6. Breakfast with Colin Renfrew7. Reviewing Lisa Fentress at Alatri8. With Giussy Nicolini where the Blue Begins9. Remembering Albanian HeroinesPart 2 Finding the sensesHearing10. Boreal Butrint and its Golden Oriels 11. Sublimity: Hidden in the Togate's Folds12. Fireworks at CopánSight13. Seeing beyond Sparta: Mistra14. Sights and sanctuary at Saranda15. Cavernous Spectacles of Colour: S. Michele at Olevano and the Crypt of the Original Sin16. A Renaissance Dream House at VisegrádSmell 17. The smell of the Desert: Doha and Al Zubarah18. Smelling Spices in Sana'a 19. The Disturbing Scent of Gold - Rosia Montana, TransylvaniaTaste20. Tuscan Cooking Classes and S.Pietro d'Asso21. Red Mullet and Retsina on Aegina22. The taste of Key Lime PieTouch23. Touching 'Gold' in Gordion24. In touch with Rome's Ex-pat dead: Rome's Non-Catholic Cemetery25. Bunga bunga?Index

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 Director of Archaeology for the Butrint Foundation and Director of the Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, USA, and writes widely for magazines.