Historiographical approaches to past archaeological research
By: edited by Gisela Eberhardt, Fabian Link
Series: Berlin studies of the ancient world -- 32
Publisher: Edition Topoi
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Berlin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9783981638417
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Archaeology; Historiography
Notes: Based on a workshop entitled New Historiographical Approaches to Archaeological Research, held September 9-11, 2010, in Berlin.

Includes bibliographical references.

Summaries also in German.
Table of contents: title: Historiographical approaches to past archaeological research. Introduction / Gisela Eberhardt, Fabian Link; title: (Net)working a stone into a tool. How technologies of serial visualization, arrangement, and narration stabilized eoliths as archeological objects / Marianne Sommer; title: Towards a bureaucratic history of archaeology. A preliminary essay / Irina Podgorny; title: Social networks in the history of archaeology. Placing archaeology in its context / Amara Thornton; title: The long revolution of radiocarbon as seen through the history of Swiss lake-dwelling research / Géraldine Delley; title: Objects of knowledge in modern settlement archaeology. The case of the Iron Age Fürstensitze ('princely residences') / Ulrich Veit; title: The colonial archaeological hero reconsidered. Post-colonial perspectives on the 'discovery' of the prehistoric past of Indonesia / Marieke Bloembergen and Martijn Eickhoff; title: Stones and stories. On the use of narratological approaches for writing the history of archaeology / Felix Wiedemann; title: "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; title: Why is the dialogue so difficult between the historiography of the social sciences and the historiography of science? / Serge Reubi.