Michael Shanks (archaeologist)
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Michael Shanks is a British archaeologist who has been at the forefront of post-processualism in archaeology.
He has written widely on archaeology, often in collaboration with his colleague Christopher Tilley. Their work together is summed up in the two books ReConstructing Archaeology and Social Theory and Archaeology (both 1987). He continued to write on the character of archaeology in Experiencing the Past (1991) and Classical Archaeology of Greece: Experiences of the Discipline (1996).
Shanks was a lecturer at the University of Wales, Lampeter before moving to the United States of America, where he is currently Professor of Classics at Stanford University.
Shanks is also a co-director of the MetaMedia Lab (http://metamedia.stanford.edu) at Stanford University. This lab is part of the broader field of Media studies field, which includes such theorists as Marshall McLuhan.
External link
- MetaMedia Lab Project List (http://metamedia.stanford.edu:3455/admin/directory.html)
- Michael Shanks's homepage (http://metamedia.stanford.edu/~mshanks/)