Oxford Studies in the History of Archaeology – serie
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Relic Hunters
Archaeology and the Public in Nineteenth- Century America
Inbunden, 2018
2108 kr
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Relic Hunters is a study of the complex relationship between the people of 19th century America with the material antiquities of North America's indigenous past. As scholars struggled to explain their existence, farmers in Ohio were plowing up arrowheads, building their houses atop burial mounds, …
A World History of Nineteenth-Century Archaeology
Nationalism, Colonialism, and the Past
Inbunden, 2007
4357 kr
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Margarita Diaz-Andreu offers an innovative history of archaeology during the nineteenth century, encompassing all its fields from the origins of humanity to the medieval period, and all areas of the world. The development of archaeology is placed within the framework of contemporary political …
From Genesis to Prehistory
The Archaeological Three Age System and its Contested Reception in Denmark, Britain, and Ireland
Inbunden, 2007
2100 kr
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We are now familiar with the Three Age System, the archaeological partitioning of the past into Stone Age, Bronze Age, and Iron Age. This division, which amounted at the time to a major scientific revolution, was conceived in Denmark in the 1830s. Peter Rowley-Conwy investigates the reasons why the …
The Recovery of Roman Britain 1586-1906
A Colony So Fertile
Inbunden, 2008
2283 kr
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From the sixteenth century, classical texts enabled Scottish and English authors and artists to imagine the character and appearance of their forebears and to consider the relevance of these ideas to their contemporaries. Richard Hingley's study crosses traditional academic boundaries by exploring …
Soviet Archaeology
Trends, Schools, and History
Av Leo S. Klejn
Inbunden, 2012
1998 kr
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In Soviet Archaeology: Trends, Schools, and History the Russian archaeologist Leo Klejn examines the peculiar phenomenon which was Soviet archaeology, showing where it differs from Western archaeology and the archaeology of pre-revolutionary Russia, and where it reveals similarities. In this …
Relics of the Past
The Collecting and Study of Pre-Columbian Antiquities in Peru and Chile, 1837-1911
Inbunden, 2014
2694 kr
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Relics of the Past tells the story of antiquities collecting, antiquarianism, and archaeology in Peru and Chile in the second half of the nineteenth and the early twentieth century. While the role of foreign travellers and scholars dedicated to the study of South America's pre-Columbian past is …
Uncovering the Germanic Past
Merovingian Archaeology in France, 1830--1914
Inbunden, 2012
3225 kr
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Uncovering the Germanic Past brings to light an unexpected side-effect of France's nineteenth-century Industrial Revolution. While laying tracks for new rail lines, quarrying for stone, and expanding lands under cultivation, French labourers uncovered bones and artefacts from long-forgotten …
