1. Introduction: Narrating intimacy, affect and things / Steve Brown, Ursula Frederick and Anne Clarke
2. What this awl means / Janet Spector
3. On toothpicks and elephants / Alexandra Kelly
4. Walking straight through places and times : finding an Acheulian hand ax / Allison Mickel
5. Marooned! The old people, a dolphin and a model canoe / Anne Clarke
6. Shalimar / Denis Byrne
7. TBC / Emma Waterton
8. Tradition and inventiveness : decolonising an "Indian" bell / Giovanna Vitelli
9. A voyage of discovery : biography and identity in early Medieval Dublin and today / Harold Mytum
10. A steely gaze : my captivation with the American tintype / Heather Law Pezzarossi
11. A cake of spinifex resin / Heidi T. Pitman
2. Can, door, heritage : a conflict to post-conflict object narrative / John Giblin
13. Pointing to the past / Lesley A. Beaumont
14. The reality of whales : reflections from a follower of whales / Lynette Russell
15. The Salt Pan Creek boondi / Paul Irish
16. Transformative material, transformative object : the impact of a bronze axe / Rachel Crellin
17. The prosaic platter / Ralph Mills
18. The claw : a song of electrons / Robert Maxwell
19. Reflections and connections / Robin Torrence
20. Dido and the basket : fragments towards a non-linear history / Ruth Tringham
21. A Neolithic house with two hearths at Osanni, South Korea / Sarah Milledge Nelson
22. Naughtiness on the mission / Steve Brown
23. The materiality of Polynesian plainware pottery / Tom Sapienza
24. Man with hat and pipe : inscribing convict identities in time and place / Tracy Ireland
25. Sandman / Ursula Frederick
26. Afterword: The resonance of a trowel / Jane Lydon.
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Object stories : artifacts and archaeologists. ISBN 9781611323849. Published by Left Coast Press in 2015. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
