The city remains – Studies in the archaeology and history of Christchurch
Description: Research in digital archaeology, heritage, and marginalia
Research in digital archaeology, heritage, and marginalia
I’ve been going through old publications that were abandoned for one reason or another and found a chapter, written in 2016 for a volume that never materialised. Here’s a small section that I thought would be fun to share.
Using multiple images to demonstrate the complexity of past lives can be a powerful way to queer visual reconstructions. In particular, comics have been used in archaeology to engage with the public , teach archaeological methods , illustrate a PhD , as a mode of personal expression by developer-funded archaeologists and even to bring forth new understanding of ancient texts . As John Swogger notes , sequential art allows interpretations to incorporate multiple iterations of potential reconstructions, depic
The city remains – Studies in the archaeology and history of Christchurch