Walking to (a)muse: exploring senses of place with Ruth

Summary

Walking with Ruth Tringham has always been a social and intellectual adventure. I have been fortunate to have the opportunity to muse on past ways of life while walking with Ruth at a range of different heritage sites in the U.S., Bulgaria and Turkey. Important themes we engaged with during these walks included: exploring different ways to approach contemporary senses of place, thinking about how senses of place may have been significant to prehistoric people, and how to (re)mediate these ideas for the benefit of diverse audiences in the present. As a result of these peripatetic adventures I have come to realise how integral the act of walking to and within places must have been to prehistoric understandings of the world, as well as the extent that the interplay of the senses mediate the textures, surfaces, shapes, animals, people, weather and the many other things encountered along the way. In this presentation I attempt to convey some of these ideas about walking and senses of place and to show my appreciation for Ruth’s enthusiasm to make the process of doing archaeology exciting, creative and, perhaps above all, enjoyable.

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This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 80th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2015)   •
• Lithics Cowgirl, Household Archaeologist, Digital Doyenne: A Session Dedicated to Ruth Tringham

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