Strange Utensils
Author(s): Grant McCaig
Year: 2013
Summary
The geologist Charles Lyell conceptualised, ‘The key to the past is in the present.’
Everyday we are surrounded by a geography of objects that are familiar and yet strange. Familiar in that they are part of our everyday vocabulary and strange in that their origins have become detached from their present forms.
We use form as a way of establishing a reality, of marking where we are and our progress.
Using these commonly held perceptions I would like to make a series of objects based around a recognizable theme, "utensils".
Cite this Record
Strange Utensils. Grant McCaig. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, Leicester, England, U.K. 2013 ( tDAR id: 428601)
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Keywords
General
Archaeologies of Creativity
Geographic Keywords
United Kingdom
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Western Europe
Temporal Keywords
PRESENT
Spatial Coverage
min long: -8.158; min lat: 49.955 ; max long: 1.749; max lat: 60.722 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 670