Michael Shanks (archaeologist)
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Michael Shanks is a British archaeologist who has been at the forefront of thinking and practice in archaeology (usually placed under the banner of post-processualism or interpretive archaeology).
He has written widely on archaeology. His disciplinary impact was felt early through his collaboration with colleague Christopher Tilley. Their work together came to fruition 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). In 1999 he published Art and the Early Greek City State. He co-authored Theatre/Archaeology (2001) with Mike Pearson.
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 a co-director of the MetaMedia Lab at Stanford University. This lab is part of the broader field of Media studies, which includes such theorists as Marshall McLuhan.
