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THE CONSTRUCTED PAST

We can never know with certainty what the past was like: instead we reconstruct

images of what we think it may have been like using the fragmentary remains

we have, but influenced to a degree by our cultural perceptions and norms.

Those who present the past to others have the responsibility to ensure that they

represent the most likely reality of the past, and that the representations are not

conscious manipulations of the past created for particular contemporary causes.

This edited collection presents a group of powerful images of the past,

termed in the book ‘construction sites’. At these sites, full scale, three-

dimensional images for the past have been created for a variety of reasons

including archaeological experimentation, tourism and education. Some

sites attempt little more than construction of unfurnished buildings, others

introduce furniture, other artefacts and human interpreters to recreate a

more detailed image of the past. The various case studies explore the

relationship between the sites’ aims and discuss their constant friction.

Contributions frankly discuss the problems and mistakes experienced

with reconstruction, encourage the need for on-going experimentation

and examine the various uses of the sites; political, economical and

educational.

The Constructed Past affords the most detailed and extensive discussion

of such sites so far attempted, and will provide a valuable reference tool

for archaeologists and professionals in heritage management.

Peter G.Stone is the Chief Executive Officer of the World Archaeological

Congress. He has worked in the English Heritage Education Service for

nearly ten years, and currently teaches heritage studies at the University

of Newcastle.

Philippe G.Planel is an ex-teacher and an independent writer and worker

in archaeology and education on both sides of the Channel.

ONE WORLD ARCHAEOLOGY

Series Editor: P.J.Ucko

Animals into Art

H.Morphy (ed.), vol. 7

Archaeological Approaches to Cultural

Identity

S.J.Shennan (ed.), vol. 10

Archaeological Heritage Management in the

Modern World

H.F.Cleere (ed.), vol. 9

The Archaeology and Anthropology of

Landscape: shaping your landscape

P.J.Ucko & R.Layton (eds), vol. 30

Archaeology and Language I: theoretical and

methodological orientations

R.Blench & M.Spriggs (eds), vol. 27

Archaeology and Language II: archaeological

data and linguistic hypotheses

R.Blench & M.Spriggs (eds), vol. 29

Archaeology and Language III: artefacts,

languages and texts

R.Blench & M.Spriggs (eds), vol. 34

Archaeology and Language IV: language

change and cultural transformation

R.Blench & M.Spriggs (eds), vol. 35

Archaeology and the Information Age: a

global perspective

P.Reilly & S.Rahtz (eds), vol. 21

The Archaeology of Africa: food, metals and

towns

T.Shaw, P.Sinclair, B.Andah & A.Okpoko

(eds), vol. 20

Centre and Periphery: comparative studies in

archaeology

T.C.Champion (ed.), vol. 11

Conflict in the Archaeology of Living

Traditions

R.Layton (ed.), vol. 8

The Constructed Past: experimental

archaeology, education and the public

P.G.Stone & P.G.Planel (eds), vol. 36

Cultural Resource Management in

Contemporary Society: perspectives on

managing and presenting the past

F.P.MacManamon & A.Hatton (eds), vol. 33

Domination and Resistance

D.Miller, M.J.Rowlands & C.Tilley (eds), vol. 3

Early Human Behaviour in Global Context

M.Petraglia & R.Korisettar (eds), vol. 28

The Excluded Past: archaeology in education

P.Stone & R.MacKenzie (eds), vol. 17

Foraging and Farming: the evolution of plant

exploitation

D.R.Harris & G.C.Hillman (eds), vol. 13

From the Baltic to the Black Sea: studies in

medieval archaeology

D.Austin & L.Alcock (eds), vol. 18

Historical Archaeology: back from the edge

P.P.A.Funari, M.Hall & S.Jones (eds), vol. 31

Hunters of the Recent Past

L.B.Davis & B.O.K.Reeves (eds), vol. 15

The Meanings of Things: material culture and

symboli expression

I.Hodder (ed.), vol. 6

The Origins of Human Behaviour

R.A.Foley (ed.), vol. 19

The Politics of the Past

P.Gathercole & D.Lowenthal (eds), vol. 12

The Prehistory of Food: appetites for change

C.Gosden & J.Hather (eds), vol. 32

The Presented Past: heritage, museums and

education

P.Stone & B.L.Molyneaux (eds), vol. 25

Sacred Sites, Sacred Places

D.L.Carmichael, J.Hubert, B.Reeves &

A.Schanche (eds), vol. 23

Signifying Animals: human meaning in the

natural world

R.G.Willis (ed.), vol. 16

Social Construction of the Past: representation

as power

G.C.Bond & A.Gilliam (eds), vol. 24

State and Society: the emergence and

development of social hierarchy and political

centralization

J.Gledhill, B.Bender & M.T.Larsen (eds), vol. 4

Time, Process and Structural Transformation

in Archaeology

S.E.van der Leeuw & J.McGlade (eds), vol. 26

Tropical Archaeobotany: applications and

developments

J.G.Hather (ed.), vol. 22

The Walking Larder: patterns of

domestication, pastoralism, and predation

J.Clutton-Brock (ed.), vol. 2

What is an Animal?

T.Ingold (ed.), vol. 1

What’s New? A closer look at the process of

innovation

S.E.van der Leeuw & R.Torrence (eds), vol. 14

Who Needs the Past? Indigenous values and

archaeology

R.Layton (ed.), vol. 5

THE CONSTRUCTED PAST

Experimental archaeology, education and

the public

Edited by

Peter G.Stone and Philippe G.Planel

London and New York

In association with English Heritage

First published 1999 by Routledge

11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada

by Routledge

29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001

Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group

This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2004.

Peter G.Stone and Philippe G.Planel;

individual chapters, the contributors

reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic,

mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented,

including photocopying and recording, or in any information

storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from

the publishers.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

The constructed past: experimental archaeology, education, and

the public/edited by Peter G.Stone and Philippe Planel.

p. cm.—(One world archaeology)

Papers originally presented at the third World Archaeological

Congress held in New Delhi, India in December 1994.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0-415-11768-2 (hb)

1. Archaeology—Experiments—Congresses. 2. Archaeology—

Study and teaching—Congresses. 3. Historic sites—Conservation

and restoration—Congresses. 4. Historic sites—Interpretive

programs—Congresses. 5. Archaeology and history—Congresses.

6. Excavations (Archaeology)—Interpretive programs—

Congresses. 7. Tourist trade—Social aspects—Congresses. I.

Stone, Peter G., 1957–. II. Planel, Philippe. 1948–. III. World

Archaeological Congress (3rd: 1994: New Delhi, India) IV.

Series.

CC175.C67 1999

930.1’028’5–dc21

98–52318

CIP

ISBN 0-203-20582-0 Master e-book ISBN

ISBN 0-203-26670-6 (Adobe eReader Format)

ISBN 0-415-11768-2

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