Michael Shanks (born 1959 in Newcastle upon Tyne) is a British archaeologist who has specialised in Classical archaeology and archaeological theory. He received his BA and PhD from Cambridge University, and was a lecturer at the University of Wales, Lampeter before moving to the United States of America in 1999 to take up a Chair in Classics at Stanford University.

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  • Michael Shanks (born 1959 in Newcastle upon Tyne) is a British archaeologist who has specialised in Classical archaeology and archaeological theory. He received his BA and PhD from Cambridge University, and was a lecturer at the University of Wales, Lampeter before moving to the United States of America in 1999 to take up a Chair in Classics at Stanford University. He also taught classical studies at Whiltey Bay High School for a number of years during the 1980's and was well known by pupils for his hippy length hair and recitation of the odyssey in Greek without translation whilst sat cross legged on the teacher's desk. Shanks was a key figure in the development of post-processualism and interpretive archaeology during the 1980s, especially through his collaboration with Christopher Tilley which led to the publication of two influential books: 'Re-Constructing Archaeology' and 'Social Theory and Archaeology' (both 1987). Shanks' first single-authored book, 'Experiencing the Past' (1992), considered the character of archaeological thinking, drawing examples form a wide range of British and European archaeology. During the 1990s, two further monographs - Classical Archaeology of Greece: Experiences of the Discipline (1996) and Art and the Early Greek City State (1999) applied aspects of post-processual thinking to Classical archaeology. He co-authored Theatre/Archaeology' (2001) with performance researcher Mike Pearson. Shanks has also authored and co-authored a range of journal articles, including an influential paper on 'the craft of archaeology' in 1996, published in American Antiquity.
  • For skuespilleren Michael Shanks, se Michael Garrett Shanks Michael Shanks er en britisk arkeolog som er kjent for sitt arbeide innen post-prosessuell arkeologi. Shanks foreleste ved University of Wales, Lampeter før han flyttet til USA, hvor han nå er professor i klassisk arkeologi ved Stanford University i California. Shanks er en av lederne for MetaMedia Lab ved Stanford. Dette laboratoriet er en del av det bredere feltet Media Studies, som inkluderer teoretikere som Marshall McLuhan. Han har skrevet flere bøker innen arkeologisk teori, og er kjent for sitt samarbeide med Christopher Tilley.
  • Michael Shanks är en brittisk medelhavsarkeolog verksam vid Stanford University i USA. Han var en ledande representant för den postprocessuella och kritiska arkeologin på 1980- och 90-talen och kan anses vara en något svårgenomtränglig skribent. Shanks nämns ofta i samband med kollegan Christopher Tilley med vilken han givit ut två omdebatterade böcker.
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  • Michael Shanks (born 1959 in Newcastle upon Tyne) is a British archaeologist who has specialised in Classical archaeology and archaeological theory. He received his BA and PhD from Cambridge University, and was a lecturer at the University of Wales, Lampeter before moving to the United States of America in 1999 to take up a Chair in Classics at Stanford University.
  • For skuespilleren Michael Shanks, se Michael Garrett Shanks Michael Shanks er en britisk arkeolog som er kjent for sitt arbeide innen post-prosessuell arkeologi. Shanks foreleste ved University of Wales, Lampeter før han flyttet til USA, hvor han nå er professor i klassisk arkeologi ved Stanford University i California. Shanks er en av lederne for MetaMedia Lab ved Stanford. Dette laboratoriet er en del av det bredere feltet Media Studies, som inkluderer teoretikere som Marshall McLuhan.
  • Michael Shanks är en brittisk medelhavsarkeolog verksam vid Stanford University i USA. Han var en ledande representant för den postprocessuella och kritiska arkeologin på 1980- och 90-talen och kan anses vara en något svårgenomtränglig skribent. Shanks nämns ofta i samband med kollegan Christopher Tilley med vilken han givit ut två omdebatterade böcker.
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