Archaeologists often treat sites, structures and assemblages as perceived visually, in their present state – in the field, in museums, on the analyst’s table or on paper. This is, to a considerable extent, a senseless or anaesthetized archaeology. Archaeology of the senses seeks to add to the archaeologist’s interpretive toolkit a more rounded consideration of the range of sensory experiences of archaeological materials in their original contexts: their feel, sound, taste, smell, as well as color and the play of light and shadow. What evidence do we have to reconstruct the sensory experience of house interiors? What did ancient alleyways look like and what were the sounds and smells associated with them? How was sensory experience controlled by cultural norms, in different contexts (such as rituals, ceremonies, or in the kitchen)? In this seminar we will investigate how ancient sensory environments might be reconstructed, using a variety of means to reconstruct smells, sounds, and spatial settings of human activity.