Using a wide range of subjects, this study explores how pictures and representations of the past shape our perceptions and our expectations of the past.

Brian Leigh Molyneaux is Assistant Professor of Archaeology at the University of South Dakota.

Introduction; 1: Art, Landscape, And The Past; 2: Drawing Inferences; 3: Things, and Things Like Them; 4: ' To See is to Have Seen '; 5: Photography and Archaeology; 6: Representation and Reality in Private Tombs of the Late Eighteenth Dynasty, Egypt; 7: Some Greek Images Of Others; 8: The Art and Archaeology of Custer's Last Battle; 9: Revolutionary Images; 10: The Power Of The Picture; 11: Focusing on the Past; 12: The Painter and Prehistoric People