In the early 1630s, a pamphlet entitled Le Courrier Veritable circulated on the streets ofParis. The pamphlet told how a Captain Vosterloch had discovered a miraculous sponge on a voyage to the South Pacific.SouthSea islanders, it was claimed, used this sponge to communicate over long distances: the sponge soaked up words that were spoken into it and replayed these words when squeezed by the recipient of a message (Sutton, 2004:130). Amusing as this fanciful account of early voice-mail may seem, many archaeologists must surely have wished that their finds could speak to them in just such a way. Unfortunately, material things, even of the absorbent organic kind, seldom make for good conversation. The art of archaeological storytelling relies on a form of artifactual ventriloquism. As cultural animators archaeologists deploy their interpretive skills to give voice to mundane everyday objects. [download]
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