Introduction : caring about things -- The ambiguity of things : contempt and desire -- Engagements with things : the making of archaeology -- Digging deep : archaeology and fieldwork -- Things in translation : documents and imagery -- Futures for things : memory practices and digital translation -- Timely things : from Argos to Mycenae and beyond -- Making and the design of things : human being and the shape of history -- Getting on with things : a material metaphysics of care.