Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures viii
4. List of Plates xii
5. List of Contributors xiii
6. Preface and Acknowledgements xvii
7. General Introduction: Archaeology in the Light of its Histories 1
8. Part I : SOURCES AND METHODS FOR THE HISTORY OF ARCHAEOLOGY
9. 1. Biography as Microhistory: The Relevance of Private Archives for Writing the History of Archaeology 9
10. 2. From Distant Shores: Nineteenth-Century Dutch Archaeology in European Perspective 21
11. 3. The Hemenway Southwestern Archaeological Expedition, 1886–1889: A Model of Inquiry for the History of Archaeology 37
12. 4. The Phenomenon of Pre-Soviet Archaeology. Archival Studies in the History of Russian Archaeology – Methods and Results 47
13. 5. Prehistoric Archaeology in the ‘Parliament of Science’, 1845–1900 59
14. Part II : ARCHAEOLOGICAL PRACTICE
15. 6. Wilamowitz and Stratigraphy in 1873: A Case Study in the History of Archaeology’s ‘Great Divide’ 75
16. 7. Methodological Reflections on the History of Excavation Techniques 89
17. 8. ‘More than a Village’. On the Medieval Countryside as an Archaeological Field of Study 97
18. 9. Amateurs and Professionals in Nineteenth-Century Archaeology. The Case of the Oxford ‘Antiquarian and Grocer’ H.M.J. Underhill (1855–1920) 109
19. 10. Revisiting the ‘Invisible College’: José Ramón Mélida in Early Twentieth-Century Spain 121
20. 11. Between Sweden and Central Asia. Practising Archaeology in the 1920s and 1930s 131
21. 12. Model Excavations: ‘Performance’ and the Three-Dimensional Display of Knowledge 147
22. Part III : VISUALISING ARCHAEOLOGY
23. 13. The Impossible Museum: Exhibitions of Archaeology as Reflections of Contemporary Ideologies 163
24. 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 177
25. 15. European Images of the Ancient Near East at the Beginnings of the Twentieth Century 189
26. 16. Weaving Images. Juan Cabré and Spanish Archaeology in the First Half of the Twentieth Century 203
27. 17. Frozen in Time: Photography and the Beginnings of Modern Archaeology in the Netherlands 219
28. Part IV : QUESTIONS OF IDENTITY
29. 18. Choosing Ancestors: The Mechanisms of Ethnic Ascription in the Age of Patriotic Antiquarianism (1815–1850) 231
30. 19. Archaeology, Politics and Identity. The Case of the Canary Islands in the Nineteenth Century 245
31. 20. The Wagner Brothers: French Archaeologists and Origin Myths in Early Twentieth-Century Argentina 259
32. 21. Language, Nationalism and the Identity of the Archaeologists: The Case of Juhani Rinne’s Professorship in the 1920s 271
33. 22. Protohistory at the Portuguese Association of Archaeologists: A Question of National Identity? 285
34. 23. Making Spain Hispanic. Gómez-Moreno and Iberian Archaeology 303
35. 24. Virchow and Kossinna. From the Science-Based Anthropology of Humankind to the Culture-Historical Archaeology of Peoples 315
36. 25. Dutch Archaeology and National Socialism 333
37. Index 345