A World History of Nineteenth-Century Archaeology: Nationalism, Colonialism, and the Past (Oxford Studies in the History of Archaeology)
build chronologies of both present and past native populations, and also to legitimize the colonial occupation. On the other, ho ...
since the Enlightenment (Trigger 1989: ch. 3). Darwin had been particularly inspired by Sir Charles Lyell (1797–1875), whose boo ...
geology, and biology. 6 Sklena ́r (1983: 105–8) has also pointed out that one of the main characteristics of archaeology at this ...
alternative term to Prehistory (Richard 1992: 195), and its use is still popular in Italy. In Romania the teaching of Professor ...
Roman and medieval archaeology In Parts I and II of the book it was pointed out that the image of the archaeology of the Great C ...
Hadrian’s Wall in northern England (Gill 2004: 237–9; Gill inOxford Dictionary: vol. 6, 695–6). In addition to these professiona ...
after the First World War, was essential for the acceptance of human antiquity in Europe (Grayson 1983; Van Riper 1993). Stratig ...
can emerge from another. But not until recently, has it been possible to show the same kind of evolution concerning the products ...
E ́douard Lartet (1801–71) and Gabriel de Mortillet, the Britons General Pitt Rivers and John Lubbock and the German Rudolf Virc ...
stipulated an original homeland in Central Asia, had arrived in Europe and several theories competed (Mallory 1989). In any case ...
the nation’s origins back in time to include evidence from the most remote past, although the allure of the medieval period rema ...
Within monumental archaeology a major distinction was made between the archaeology of the Great Civilizations, that of other civ ...
14 Conclusions THE INDIVIDUAL IN THE WORLD HISTORY OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY ARCHAEOLOGY In this book explanations have operated at ...
many analyses undertaken on the social provenance of archaeologists (for example Kristiansen 1981; Levine 1986; Mitchell 1998) s ...
of a nation became a political tool. The arrangement of data of the national history into a coherent account was deemed essentia ...
for other ideologies, such as socialism, as well as by the operation of other identities, like gender, class, and academic statu ...
marginalization of those scholars too sympathetic to them (see an example of this in Massin 2001: 305–9). Yet, rivalries were no ...
antiquities, therefore, assisted in the creation of a past for many colonies that explained their historical shortcomings and th ...
the deWnition of the colonized. These feelings should not be mistaken for archaeologists’ lacking a material ambition. Some indi ...
ruleWts the order of appearance of each of these three institutions in the colonies. Diversity andXuency were the hallmarks of t ...
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