L. Nixon, Seeing voices and changing relationships: Film, archaeological reporting, and the landscape of people in Sphakia, AM J ARCHAE, 105(1), 2001, pp. 77-97
Film is an excellent way of showing human interaction with the landscape, a
s anthropologists and, more recently, archaeologists have realized. Film al
so raises other issues that are important to a reflexive and interactive ar
chaeology: the relationship between archaeological investigators and local
people, the desirability of reporting in various ways to various constituen
cies, the use of film as an appropriate way of reporting, and the value of
people's responses to film for further archaeological analysis. Here the is
sues are discussed int he context of making a film about the Sphakia Survey
, an archaeological field survey in southwestern Crete.