Table of Contents
List of Figures List of Plates List of Contributors Preface and Acknowledgements
Introduction: Archaeology in the Light of its Histories Nathan Schlanger and Jarl Nordbladh
PART I : SOURCES AND METHODS FOR THE HISTORY OF ARCHAEOLOGY
Chapter 1. Biography as Microhistory: The Relevance of Private Archives for Writing the History of Archaeology Marc-Antoine Kaeser
Chapter 2. From Distant Shores: Nineteenth-Century Dutch Archaeology in European Perspective Ruurd B. Halbertsma
Chapter 3. The Hemenway Southwestern Archaeological Expedition, 1886–1889: Model of Inquiry for the History of Archaeology Curtis M. Hinsley and David R. Wilcox
Chapter 4. The Phenomenon of Pre-Soviet Archaeology. Archival Studies in the History of Russian Archaeology – Methods and Results Nadezhda I. Platonova
Chapter 5. Prehistoric Archaeology in the 'Parliament of Science', 1845–1900 Tim Murray
PART II : ARCHAEOLOGICAL PRACTICE
Chapter 6. Wilamowitz and Stratigraphy in 1873: A Case Study in the History of Archaeology’s 'Great Divide' Giovanna Ceserani
Chapter 7. Methodological Reflections on the History of Excavation Techniques Gisela Eberhardt
Chapter 8. 'More than a Village'. On the Medieval Countryside as an Archaeological Field of Study Emma Bentz
Chapter 9. Amateurs and Professionals in Nineteenth-Century Archaeology. The Case of the Oxford 'Antiquarian and Grocer' H.M.J. Underhill (1855–1920) Megan Price
Chapter 10. Revisiting the 'Invisible College': José Ramón Mélida in Early Twentieth-Century Spain Margarita Díaz-Andreu
Chapter 11. Between Sweden and Central Asia. Practising Archaeology in the 1920s and 1930s Jan Bergman
Chapter 12. Model Excavations: ‘Performance’ and the Three-Dimensional Display of Knowledge Christopher Evans
PART III : VISUALISING ARCHAEOLOGY
Chapter 13. The Impossible Museum: Exhibitions of Archaeology as Reflections of Contemporary Ideologies Marcello Barbanera
Chapter 14. Towards a More 'Scientific' Archaeological Tool: The Accurate Drawing of Greek Vases between the End of the Nineteenth- and the First Half of the Twentieth-Centuries Christine Walter
Chapter 15. European Images of the Ancient Near East at the Beginnings of the Twentieth-Century Maria Gabriella Micale
Chapter 16. Weaving Images. Juan Cabré and Spanish Archaeology in the First Half of the Twentieth-Century Susana González Reyero
Chapter 17. Frozen in Time: Photography and the Beginnings of Modern Archaeology in the Netherlands Leo Verhart
PART IV : QUESTIONS OF IDENTITY
Chapter 18. Choosing Ancestors: The Mechanisms of Ethnic A scription in the Age of Patriotic Antiquarianism (1815–1850) Ulrike Sommer
Chapter 19. Archaeology, Politics and Identity. The Case of the Canary Islands in the Nineteenth-Century José Farrujia de la Rosa
Chapter 20. The Wagner Brothers: French Archaeologists and Origin Myths in Early Twentieth-Century Argentina Ana Teresa Martínez, Constanza Taboada and Luis Alejandro Auat
Chapter 21. Language, Nationalism and the Identity of the Archaeologists: The Case of Juhani Rinne’s Professorship in the 1920s Visa Immonen and Jussi-Pekka Taavitsainen
Chapter 22. Protohistory at the Portuguese Association of Archaeologists: A Question of National Identity? Ana Cristina Martins
Chapter 23. Making Spain Hispanic. Gómez-Moreno and Iberian Archaeology Juan P. Bellón, Arturo Ruiz and Alberto Sánchez
Chapter 24. Virchow and Kossinna. From the Science-Based Anthropology of Humankind to the Culture-Historical Archaeology of Peoples Sebastian Brather
Chapter 25. Dutch Archaeology and National Socialism Martijn Eickhoff
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