The present volume shows the archaeological thinking as a form of
art, revealing the poetics of the archaeological imagination. It
shows that, in their work, archaeologists, without being inspired
by contemporary artists, use creative methods, and their analysis
of the art of the Past goes beyond the material culture of the art
objects, into the realm of the mental processes of creation.
Consequently, the purpose of this book is to present the
archaeological research functioning as a sort of artistic creation,
proposing new perspectives on the archaeological imagination. It
offers an exploration of the creative processes, the possibility of
finding inspiration in experientiality, and the approach to the act
of creation as a subject for archaeological research. When
analysing the art of the Past, or when using art methods to
approach the Past, we are facing an act of creation where
imagination, emotion, and creativity combine under the form of an
experiential instrument of investigation. The book offers a vision
of archaeological research, a means to understand the complexity of
the human nature, and consequently, to approach the human thinking
structured on similarity and symbolism, being able to detect
cultural and psychological subjects ignored until today, and, at
the same time, to offer a series of visions of art, seen from the
perspective of archaeology.
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