目次

1. Historical fiction and archaeological interpretation: introduction Daniël van Helden & Robert Witcher 2. The cornflakes of prehistory: fact, fiction and imagination in archaeology Caroline Wickham-Jones 3. Voices from the silence Margaret Elphinstone 4. Beyond archaeological narrative: imagined worlds of Neolithic Europe Mark Patton 5. Imagined realities in academic and fictional accounts of the British Mesolithic Donald Henson 6. Walking in someone else’s shoes: archaeology, empathy and fiction Daniël van Helden & Robert Witcher 7. The multiverse of fiction: exploring interpretation through community archaeology Francesco Ripanti & Giulia Osti 8. Entering undocumented pasts through playwriting James G. Gibb 9. Encountering the past through slag and storytelling Michael Given 10. Writing wonders: poetry as archaeological method? Erin Kavanagh 11. Ambiguity and omission: creative mediation of the unknowable past Giacomo Savani & Victoria Thompson 12. Spartacus: Blood and Sand (STARZ, 2010): a necessary fiction? Fiona Hobden 13. Archaeology, historical fiction and Classical Reception Studies Joanna Paul 14. Imagining the past through Film and Cultural Studies Andrew B.R. Elliott 15. Archaeological narrative and humour in a post-truth world: the obligatory sum-up article Adrian Praetzellis