Paul Bonaventura is the Senior Research Fellow in Fine Art Studies at the Ruskin School of Drawing & Fine Art, University of Oxford. Andrew Jones is Reader in Prehistoric Archaeology at the University of Southampton.

• Contents: Subject/object; new studies in sculpture, Lisa Le Feuvre; Introduction - shaping the past: sculpture and archaeology, Andrew Jones and Paul Bonaventura; Shared sites and misleading affinities: sculpture as archaeology and archaeology as sculpture, Will Rea; Archaeology, photography, sculpture: correspondence and mediations in the 19th century and beyond, Frederick N. Bohrer; The first plaster casts of the Pompeian victims, Eugene Dwyer; The illusion of permanence: archaeology imperialism and British public sculpture between the World Wars, Jonathan Black; Biographies in stone: place, memory and the prehistory of sculpture, Andrew Jones; Mirrored practices: Robert Smithson and archaeological fieldwork, Flora Vilches; Out of site: the Boyles' Dig (1966) and the Institute of Contemporary Archaeology, Jon Wood; Stainless steel/standing stones: reflections on Anish Kapoor at the Rollright Stones, Robert J. Wallis; The caves of Gallizio and Hirschhorn: excavations of the present, Frances Stracey; 'Fix'd statue on the pedestal of Scorn': the politics and poetics of displaying the Parthenon Marbles in Athens and London, Helen Rees Leahy; Communicating in the present tense: an interview with Simon Callery, Paul Bonaventura; Index.

'[Sculpture and Archaeology will make] an important contribution to the growing interest in the archaeological imagination, in its metaphors and its incursions into other fields.' Jennifer Wallace, University of Cambridge, UK