The Oxford Handbook of the History of Archaeology

Margarita Díaz-Andreu works for the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies as an ICREA Research Professor at the University of Barcelona. Her previous books include A World History of Nineteenth-Century Archaeology: Nationalism, Colonialism, and the Past and A History of Archaeological Tourism: Pursuing Leisure and Knowledge from the Eighteenth Century to World War II.Laura Coltofean is an archaeologist and historian specializing in the history of archaeology. She is a member of Research Cluster 5: History of Archaeology at the German Archaeological Institute. Her edited volumes include Interdisciplinarity and Archaeology: Scientific Interactions in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Archaeology (with Margarita Díaz-Andreu).

It is an excellent, broad source for anyone interested in the origins and development of the discipline.... This is a comprehensive, well-researched study that does indeed, as a whole, provide a decent history of both classical and anthropological archaeology and the antiquarian roots of those disciplines.

• List of contributors1. Introduction: Towards a multifaceted history of archaeology Margarita Díaz-Andreu and Laura Coltofean-Arizancu PART I. METHODOLOGY AND THEORY2. Writing the history of archaeology: a historical overviewMargarita Díaz-Andreu3. Archives, oral history, and the histories of archaeologyOla Wolfhechel Jensen4. Photo Archives and the History of ArchaeologyLucila Mallart5. Biographical research in the history of archaeologyLaura Coltofean6. "Genius", "Precursors", and "Great (White) Men" in the history of archaeologyOscar Moro Abadía and Emma Lewis-Sing PART II. ARCHAEOLOGY AND ITS PRACTICES7. From Deep Holes to the Bigger Picture. A History of Methods in Archaeological ExcavationGisela Eberhardt8. Stratigraphy in the history of archaeologyMassimo Tarantini9. Epistemic practices and blurred boundaries: human remains in the history of archaeologyNélia Dias10. A history of interdisciplinarity in archaeology: the three science revolutions, their implementation and impact Kristian Kristiansen11. A history of archaeology and the hard sciencesGéraldine Delley PART III. OBJECTS, NETWORKS, AND MUSEUMS12. Collecting Antiquities in the Nineteenth CenturyMiruna Achim13. Museums of archaeology, museums with archaeologyAna Cristina Martins14. Objects in transit: on the theory and practices of archaeological collectingFedra A. Pizzato15. Artefact Distribution: Networks in the History of Archaeology Alice Stevenson16. Fakes in the history of archaeology Irina Podgorny PART IV. DIVERSE ARCHAEOLOGIES17. The History of gender archaeologyMargarita Díaz-Andreu and Rachel Pope18 A history of historical archaeologyCharles E. Orser, Jr.19. The history of conflict archaeologySophie M. McMillan and Tony Pollard20. The history of public archaeologyGabriel Moshenska21. The history of commercial archaeology: the United Kingdom and the United StatesKenneth Aitchison22. The history of commercial archaeology: Europe and beyondKenneth Aitchison PART V. INSTITUTIONS AND LEGISLATION23. Foreign schools in the Mediterranean in historical perspective Frederick Whitling24. International congresses in the history of archaeologyUlrike Sommer25. The origins and growth of archaeology and educationMike Corbishley26. "Governed by legislation": what laws do to archaeologyJohn Carman27. A history of the legal battle against illicit trade in antiquitiesFrancesca de Tomasi PART VI. IDEOLOGIES AND THE POLITICAL CONTEXT OF ARCHAEOLOGY28. Sacred archaeology in the nineteenth and twentieth centuryBonnie Effros29. Archaeology, nationalism, imperialism, colonialism and the post-colonial turnMargarita Díaz-Andreu30. Archaeology and OrientalismSuzanne Marchand31. Race, racialism and racism in European archaeology, 1800--1960Fabian Link32. The political ecology of archaeology under communismLudomir R. Lozny PART VII. ARCHAEOLOGY AND SOCIETY33. From stunning solitaires to creative clusters: women from antiquarianism to archaeologyElisabeth Arwill-Nordbladh34. Amateur archaeology in the nineteenth and twentieth centuriesNathalie Richard35. Violence, armies, and archaeological research from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuryFrancisco Gracia Alonso36. Archaeology as leisure: a history of archaeological tourismMargarita Díaz-Andreu37. The history of the influence of free market economics on archaeologyPeter Colin TomlinsonChapter 38 Community approaches to archaeology, heritage and museums: a historical perspectiveVeysel Apaydin Index