CONTENTS:
List of Figures
List of Plates
Introduction - John H. Jameson, Jr, John E. Ehrenhard, and Christine A. Finn
Why We Were Drawn to this Topic - From the Contributors
[Chapters]:
   1. More Than Just "Telling the Story": Interpretive Narrative Archaeology" - John P. McCarthy, Pennsylvania Department of Transportation
   2. The Archaeologist as Playwright - James G. Gibb, Independent Scholar 
   3 . Archaeology Goes to the Opera - John E. Ehrenhard, National Park Service and Mary Bullard, South Dartmouth, Massachusetts
   4. Archaeology in Two Dimensions: The Artist's Perspective - Martin Pate, Newnan, Georgia
   5. Art and Imagery as Public Interpretation and Education Tools in Archaeology - John H. Jameson, Jr., National Park Service
   6. Archaeology as a Compelling Story: The Art of Writing Popular Histories - Sharyn Kane and Richard Keeton, Marietta, Georgia
   7. Poetry and Archaeology: the Transformative Process - Christine A. Finn, University of Oxford
   8. Reflections on the Design of a Public Art Sculpture for the Westin Hotel, Palo Alto, California - David Middlebrook, San Jose State University
   9. Pompeii: A Site for All Seasons - David G. Orr, National Park Service
   10. Evoking Time and Place in Reconstruction and Display: the Case of Celtic Identity and Iron Age Art - Harold Mytum, University of York
   11. Art and Archaeology: Conflict and Interpretation in a Museum Setting - Michael J. Williams, Anasazi Heritage Center and Margaret A. Heath, Bureau of Land Management Heritage Education Program
   12. The Archaeology of Music and Peformance in the Prehistoric American Southwest - Emily Donald, National Park Service and Columbia University
   13. Sacred Mounds, Sacred Bundles: Archaeology's Influence on Contemporary Native American Art in the Midwest -
Lance Foster, National Park Service and Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska
   14. From Rock Art to Digital Image: Archaeology and Art in Aboriginal Australia - Claire Smith and Kirsten Brett, Flinders University 
   15. Archaeology in Science Fiction and Mysteries - David G. Anderson, National Park Service
   16. RKLOG: Archaeologists as Fiction Writers - Sarah Nelson, University of Denver 
   17. Capturing the Wanderer: Nomads and archaeology in the filming of The English Patient - Christine A. Finn, University of Oxford
   18. Is Archaeology Fiction? Some Thoughts about Experimental Ways of Communicating Archaeological Processes to the "External World" - Nicola Laneri, Istituto Universitario Orientale, Naples
   19. Exploring Archaeological Knowledge Graphically in a Hypertext Environment - Jeanne Lopiparo and Rosemary A. Joyce, University of California, Berkeley
References Cited
Contributor Affiliations and Contact Information
About the Editors
Index
Contents of Acompanying Compact Disc:
   1. Images and clips from the stage production of the opera Zabette (John Ehrenhard and Mary Bullard, ref. Chapter 3)
   2. Interpretive art paintings and sketches - color image scans (Martin Pate, ref. Chapter 4)
   3. Examples of archaeological interpretive art images and educational posters - color image scans (Martin Pate, John Ehrenhard, and John Jameson, ref. Chapters 4, 5, and 6)
   4. Popular histories and other online volumes of the Southeast Archeological Center, National Park Service (ref. Chapters 4, 5, and 6)
   5. Color photos of public art sculptures (David Middlebrook, ref. Chapter 8)
   6. Book covers and comments on Spirit Bird Journey and National Treasure, published by RKLOG Press (Sarah Nelson, ref. Chapter 16)
   7. Video: Is Archaeology Fiction? Some Thoughts about Experimental Ways of Communicating Archaeological Processes to the "External World" (Nicola Laneri, ref. Chapter 18).
   8. Web site and video: Crafting Cosmos, a multimedia hypertext (Jeanne Lopiparo and Rosemary Joyce, ref. Chapter 19)