Myth Mapping Stanton Drew through Multisensory Engagements

This project explores how multisensory engagement and embodied movement shape the experience and interpretation of archaeological landscapes, focusing on Stanton Drew. Drawing on a “soft phenomenological” approach, it integrates field-based observation with geophysical data and digital reconstructions to examine how sensory perception, spatial interaction, and more-than-human relations contribute to ways of knowing place. Through an immersive, non-linear walk, the study foregrounds listening, movement, and affect as key methodological tools. The resulting “myth map” functions as an interpretive response, giving form to atmospheric and relational dimensions that extend beyond conventional representation. Rather than reconstructing a fixed past, the project shows how landscape meaning emerges through dynamic interactions between material presence, absence, memory, and cultural narrative. In doing so, it contributes to ongoing debates in landscape archaeology and anthropology concerning subjectivity, creativity, and the role of embodied experience in knowledge production.