The Oxford Handbook of Light in Archaeology

by Papadopoulos, Costas; Moyes, Holley

• ISBN13: 9780198788218
• ISBN10: 0198788215
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2022-03-09
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Costas Papadopoulos, Assistant Professor in Digital Humanities and Culture Studies, Maastricht University,Holley Moyes, Professor, Department of Anthropology and Heritage Studies, University of California, Merced

Costas Papadopoulos is an Assistant Professor in Digital Humanities & Culture Studies at Maastricht University. His work has its roots in ethnography, archaeology, digital humanities, and museum and cultural studies, exploring modelling and representation at the intersections of the physical and the
digital. It advances understandings of the experience and perception of heritage; engages with debates on the role of interactive research in digital humanities; explores ways to build epistemological frameworks for multimodal research; and integrates Arts into STE(A)M learning via socially-engaged
research by facilitating digital literacy and creative thinking. Most of his research has focused on digital applications in archaeology and heritage with a particular emphasis on 3D visualisation. He is PI of PURE3D which develops an Infrastructure for the Publication and Preservation of 3D
Scholarship.

Holley Moyes is a Professor of Anthropology and Heritage Studies and an Affiliate Faculty in the Cognitive and Information Sciences department at the University of California, Merced. Her main area of expertise is the archaeology of religion and she is particularly interested in ritual spaces.
Although most of her field work is conducted in ancient Maya ritual cave sites in Belize, Central America, her broader interests encompass cross-cultural ritual cave use. She has published over 40 journal articles and book chapters on the subject of caves and her book Sacred Darkness: A Global
Perspective on the Ritual Use of Caves won a 2013 Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title.

Table of Contents

1. Illuminating Sensory Archaeologies, Costas Papadopoulos and Holley Moyes
Section I. Darkness
2. Light, Human Evolution, and the Palaeolithic, Paul Pettit, Stefanie Leluschko, and Takashi Sakamoto
3. The Role of Darkness in Ancient Greek Religion and Religious Practice, Efrosyni Boutsikas
4. Constructing the Invisible: Light and Darkness in the Topography of Hades, Athanasia Zografou
5. Darkness and the Imagination: The Role of Environment in the Development of Spiritual Beliefs, Holley Moyes, Lillian Rigoli, Stephanie Huette, Daniel R. Montello, Teenie Matlock, and Michael J. Spivey
6. Illuminating Time: The Visibility of Temporality in Prehistory, Gail Higginbottom and Vincent Mom
Section II. Light in Myth, Ritual, and Cosmology
7. Rediscovering the Winter Solstice Alignment at Newgrange, Ireland, Robert Hensey
8. Light and Shadow Effects in Megalithic Monuments in the Iberian Peninsula, A. César González-García
9. Sunlight, Divination, and the Dead in Aegean Ritual Tradition, Lucy Goodison
10. Illuminating Triangulations: Moonlight and the Mississippian World, Timothy R. Pauketat
11. The Chacoan World: Light and Shadow, Stone and Sky, Ruth M. Van Dyke
12. Animate Shadows of Bears and Giants, Kevin Conti and William Walker
Section III. Light in Sacred Architecture
13. The Beautiful Face of Ra: The Role of Sunlight in the Architecture of Ancient Egypt, Giulio Magli
14. The Handling of Light: Its Effect on Form and Space in the Greek Temple and the Byzantine Church, Iakovos Potamianos
15. In Visible Presence: The Role of Light in Shaping Religious Atmospheres, Mikkel Bille and Tim Flohr Sørensen
16. Lighting in Muslim and Christian Religious Buildings: A Comparative Study, Maria Sardi and Ioannis Motsianos
Section IV. The Meaning of Light
17. Prehistoric Light in the Air: Celestial Symbols of the Bronze Age, Emília Pásztor
18. Phenomenology of Light: The Glitter of Salvation in Bessarion's Cross, Bissera V. Pentcheva
19. The Light of the Flame: Use and Symbolism of Light and Lighting Devices in Traditional Greek Culture, Eleni Bintsi
20. Encountering Photoamulets and the Use of Apotropaic Light in Late Antiquity, Eric C. Lapp
Section V. Light in Private, Domestic, and Working Environments
21. Visibility, Privacy, and Missing Windows: The Lighting of Domestic Space in Ancient Mesopotamia, Mary Shepperson
22. Lighting the 'Good Life': The Role of Light in the Aristocratic Housing System during Late Antiquity, Jean-Philippe Carrie
23. Thirty Days of Night: The Role of Light and Shadow in Inuit Architecture North of the Arctic Circle, Peter Dawson and Richard Levy
24. Household Consumption of Artificial Light at Pompeii, David Griffiths
25. Industrialising Light: The Development and Deployment of Artificial Lighting in Early Factories, Ian West
Section VI. Simulations and Reconstructions of Light
26. Materialising Light, Making Worlds: Optical Image Projection within the Megalithic Passage Tombs of Britain And Ireland, Aaron Watson and Ronnie Scott
27. Light and Dark in Prehistoric Malta, Simon Stoddart, Caroline Malone, Michael Anderson, and Robert Barratt
28. The Eleusinian Projector: The Hierophant's Optical Method of Conjuring the Goddess, Matt Gatton
29. Reconstructing Artificial Light in Ancient Greece, Dorina Moullou and Fragiskos V. Topalis
30. Lighting in Reconstructed Contexts: Experimental Archaeology with Pyrotechnologies, Dragoş Gheorghiu
31. Çatalhöyük: A Study of Light and Darkness - A Photo-Essay, Eva Bosch
Section VII. Light in Object Curation and Knowledge Production
32. Light and its Interaction with Antiquities and Works of Art: A Conservator's Perspective, Eleni Kotoula
33. Lighting and Museum Exhibits, Malcolm Innes
34. Modalities of Meaning: Light and Shadow in Archaeological Images, Nessa Leibhammer
Afterword: On Light, Tim Ingold