Table of Contents

Introduction: What are we? 1. Encounters: Art as archaeology, archaeology as art 2. What is art? The tyranny of the Renaissance 3. Off the plinth: Display and Process 4. The human condition: Being and remembering 5. The (al)lure of the artefact 6. Baneful signs: The archaeology of now

About the Author

Professor Lord Colin Renfrew is Disney Professor of Archaeology and Director of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at the University of Cambridge. Among his many book is Archaeology: Theories, Methods and Practice (with Paul Bahn).