Since 1993 I have been fortunate in working with two great artistic talents – Mike Pearson and Cliff McLucas, art directors of the site specific theatre company Brith Gof. They have taken my work into fields I could never have dreamed.
Main publication
Experiencing the Past London, Routledge, 1991
Archaeology and the forms of history. In I. Hodder, M. Shanks, Alexandra Alexandri, Victor Buchli, John Carman, Jonathan Last and Gavin Lucas (eds), Interpreting Archaeology: Finding Meaning in the Past. London, Routledge, 1995
Photography and the archaeological image. In B. Molyneaux (ed), The Cultural Life of Images: Visual Representation in Archaeology. London, Routledge, 1997
Performing a visit: archaeologies of the contemporary past. With Mike Pearson. Performance Research 2: 42-60 (1996)
Art and the Early Greek State Cambridge University Press, 1999
Theatre/Archaeology With Mike Pearson. London, Routledge, 2001
Three landscapes: a visual primer. With Clifford McLucas and Dorian Llywelyn. In preparation.
Three rooms: archaeology and performance. Journal of Social Archaeology 4: 147-180 Also at http://traumwerk.stanford.edu/~mshanks/traumwerk