scholars suggested ideas and shared information after having read one or
more chapters: Nadia Erzini, Anna Leone, and Stephen Vernoit for North
African archaeology, Daniel Scha ́velzon for Latin America, Jarl Nordbladh
for early nineteenth-century European archaeology, Rasmi Shoocongdej for
Siam (Thailand), Neil Silberman for the archaeology of the biblical lands,
Gina Barnes and Lothar von Falkenhausen for East Asia, Daniel Saunders for
the Russian Empire, Charles Higham for Southeast Asia and Dilip Chakra-
barti and Sudeshna Guha for India. Many others have been ready to answer
speciWc questions and provided me with interesting ideas. In alphabetical
order, these are Lois Armada, Marcello Barbanera, Tim Bayliss-Smith, Gary
Campbell, Haydon L. Cherry, B. F. Cook, Per Cornell, Jordi Cortadella, Noe ̈l
Coye, Chris Evans, Lothar von Falkenhausen, Vı ́ctor Ferna ́ndez, Lucio
Menezes Ferreira, Pedro Paulo Funari, Brien K. Garnand, Norman Girardot,
Chris Heaton, Christine Hertler, Caroline Humphreys, Jørgen Jensen, Matthew
Johnson, Lise Bender Jorgensen, Anessa Kassam, Lars Larsson, Jose ́Ramo ́n
Lo ́pez Rodrı ́guez, Peter Manuelian, Suzanne Marchand, Jaume Masso ́,Aron
Mazel, Chris Miele, Ignacio Montero, Gloria Mora, Oscar Moro, Tim Murray,
Aleksandr Naymark, Elisabeth Nordbladh, Anne O’Connor, Ayse Ozdemir,
David W. Phillipson, Peter Rowley-Conwy, Laurajane Smith, Pamela Jane
Smith, Ulrike Sommer, Marie Louis Stig Sørensen, Ruth Struwe, Igor L.Tikho-
nov, Mogens Trolle Larsen, Luis Va ́zquez Leo ́n, Guus Veenendaal, Stephen
Vernoit, Ha ̊kan Wahlquist, Hartmut Walravens, Stine Wiell, Penny Wilson,
and Oliver Zimmer. This book owes an intellectual debt to many people in
Spain (for the whole list see Dı ́az-Andreu 2002: 11–13), to Bruce Trigger’s
work, which has made history of archaeology an acceptable enterprise in the
eyes of my colleagues and to the members of the AREA (Archives of European
Archaeology) project. This volume should be seen as contributing to the
project’s goals. I would like to express my sincere thanks to all those mentioned
above for their encouragement. Last, but not least, thanks to Durham library,
and especially to John Lumsden, Kate Page, Caro Baker, and Heather Medcalf,
for having searched and made available a wide range of publications which
have greatly enriched this work.
Portions of Chapter 1 were published in the introductory chapter of the
volume edited with Anthony D. Smith onNationalism and Archaeologyin the
journalNations and Nationalism7.4. Ideas subsequently included in Chapter 2
wereWrst part of a lecture tour of Brazil in 1999 when, thanks to Professor
Pedro Funari, I was invited by the FAPESP (the Science Foundation of the
State of Sa ̃o Paulo in Brazil) to teach in the universities of Campinas, Joinville
and Sa ̃o Paulo. The core of Chapters 4, 7, and 10 was initially drafted during a
lecture tour in Mexico (Mexico City, Xalapa, and Me ́rida), organized by
Enrique Florescano and Alain Schnapp in December 1997, and other ideas
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