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List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Introduction: New Intersections of Archaeology, Literature and Science. Josie Gill, University of Bristol, UK, Catriona McKenzie, University of Exeter, UK and Emma Lightfoot, University of Cambridge, UK -- Genetics and Human Inheritance -- 1. New Materialism, Archaeogenetics and Tracing the Human. Jerome de Groot, University of Manchester, UK -- 2. Jack London and Before Adam : Ahead of his Time, or a Cautionary Tale in the Study of Prehistoric Hominins? James Walker, University of Bradford, UK and David Clinnick, St Mary's College of California, USA -- Innovations in Practice through Collaborative Projects 3. 'Handle with Care': Literature, Archaeology, Slavery. Josie Gill, Catriona McKenzie and Emma Lightfoot -- 4. Creative Facticity and 'Hyper-Archaeology': The Spatial and Performative Textualities of Psychogeography. Spencer Jordan, University of Nottingham, UK -- Literature, Archaeology and Layering the Past 5. Deciphering the City: Ancient Egypt in Victorian London and Psychogeographical Archaeology. Eleanor Dobson, University of Birmingham, UK -- 6. From the Great Castle of the Hill to the Great Mound on the River: Imperialism and Transatlantic Archaeology in Thomas Hardy's 'Ancient Earthworks'. Anna West, independent scholar -- Narrative Archaeology and the Narratives of Archaeologists -- 7. Something More than Imagination: Archaeology and Fiction. Robert E.Witcher, Durham University, UK and Danil︠ P. van Helden, University of Leicester, UK -- 8. The Death of the Archaeologist: Imagining Science, Storytelling and Self-Understanding in Contemporary Archaeofiction. Anna Auguscik, University og Oldenburg, Germany Index "Writing Remains brings together a wide range of leading archaeologists and literary scholars to explore emerging intersections in archaeological and literary practice. Drawing upon a wide range of literary texts from the nineteenth century to the present, the book offers new approaches to understanding storytelling and narrative in archaeology, and the role of archaeological methods in literature and literary criticism. Across the book's 10 chapters - ranging from Thomas Hardy and H.P. Lovecraft to Zadie Smith and Paul Beatty, from new genetic insights into prehistoric man and the deepening record of our changing human environment - scholars from across disciplines are brought into dialogue, making innovative connections to concepts, methodologies and practices of cultural understanding"--
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