Title: Historiographical approaches to past archaeological research /
Authors: Eberhardt, Gisela, 1965-; Link, Fabian.
Year: 2015
Subjects: Archaeology Historiography.; Archaeology Historiography
Contents: Historiographical approaches to past archaeological research. Introduction / Gisela Eberhardt, Fabian Link -- (Net)working a stone into a tool. How technologies of serial visualization, arrangement, and narration stabilized eoliths as archeological objects / Marianne Sommer -- Towards a bureaucratic history of archaeology. A preliminary essay / Irina Podgorny -- Social networks in the history of archaeology. Placing archaeology in its context / Amara Thornton -- The long revolution of radiocarbon as seen through the history of Swiss lake-dwelling research / Géraldine Delley -- Objects of knowledge in modern settlement archaeology. The case of the Iron Age Fürstensitze ('princely residences') / Ulrich Veit -- The colonial archaeological hero reconsidered. Post-colonial perspectives on the 'discovery' of the prehistoric past of Indonesia / Marieke Bloembergen and Martijn Eickhoff -- Stones and stories. On the use of narratological approaches for writing the history of archaeology / Felix Wiedemann -- "More important than all technical features would appear to us the volkliche differences'. Gotthard Neumann and the völkisch thought in German prehistory, 1920s to 1960s / Fabian Link -- Why is the dialogue so difficult between the historiography of the social sciences and the historiography of science? / Serge Reubi.