Smell

Well, my friends are probably tired of hearing me yak on about this. I've been doing some brainstorming research in order to see if I could accommodate smell into my methodology. So I've been scouring the literature for some indication that people have explored smell archaeologically before and I'm coming up with bupkiss.

There has been lots and lots and lots of research on the science behind the physical sense of smell, and a fair amount of research into the way other cultures perceive smell and the other senses, but there has been almost no research into smell in a wider environment. This means that it's very difficult to find anything that could be at all relevant or at all applicable to the archaeological record.

This is depressing because smell is so important for people's experience of space, it is an integral part of the way people perceive architecture.