Gisela Eberhardt and Fabian Link (Eds.), Historiographical Approaches to Past Archaeological Research, Berlin: Edition Topoi, 2015

Abstract

Writing the history of archaeology has become increasingly diverse in recent years due to developments in the historiography of the sciences and the humanities. A move away from hagiography and presentations of scientific processes as an inevitable progression has been requested in this context. Historians of archaeology have begun to utilize approved and new historiographical concepts to trace how archaeological knowledge has been acquired as well as to reflect on the historical conditions and contexts in which knowledge has been generated. This volume seeks to contribute to this trend. By linking theories and models with case studies from the nineteenth and twentieth century, the authors illuminate implications of communication on archaeological knowledge and scrutinize routines of early archaeological practices. The usefulness of different approaches such as narratological concepts or the concepts of habitus is thus considered.

Content

7–14 Gisela Eberhardt and Fabian Link, "Historiographical Approaches to Past Archaeological Research. Introduction", in: Gisela Eberhardt and Fabian Link (Eds.), Historiographical Approaches to Past Archaeological Research, Berlin: Edition Topoi, 2015, 7–14
15–45 Marianne Sommer, "(Net)working a Stone into a Tool. How Technologies of Serial Visualization, Arrangement, and Narration Stabilized Eoliths as Archeological Objects", in: Gisela Eberhardt and Fabian Link (Eds.), Historiographical Approaches to Past Archaeological Research, Berlin: Edition Topoi, 2015, 15–45
47–67 Irina Podgorny, "Towards a Bureaucratic History of Archaeology. A Preliminary Essay", in: Gisela Eberhardt and Fabian Link (Eds.), Historiographical Approaches to Past Archaeological Research, Berlin: Edition Topoi, 2015, 47–67
69–94 Amara Thornton, "Social Networks in the History of Archaeology. Placing Archaeology in its Context", in: Gisela Eberhardt and Fabian Link (Eds.), Historiographical Approaches to Past Archaeological Research, Berlin: Edition Topoi, 2015, 69–94
95–114 Géraldine Delley, "The Long Revolution of Radiocarbon as Seen through the History of Swiss Lake-Dwelling Research", in: Gisela Eberhardt and Fabian Link (Eds.), Historiographical Approaches to Past Archaeological Research, Berlin: Edition Topoi, 2015, 95–114
115–131 Ulrich Veit, "Objects of Knowledge in Modern Settlement Archaeology. The Case of the Iron Age Fürstensitze (‘Princely Residences’)", in: Gisela Eberhardt and Fabian Link (Eds.), Historiographical Approaches to Past Archaeological Research, Berlin: Edition Topoi, 2015, 115–131
133–164 Marieke Bloembergen and Martijn Eickhoff, "The Colonial Archaeological Hero Reconsidered. Post-Colonial Perspectives on the ‘Discovery’ of the Prehistoric Past of Indonesia", in: Gisela Eberhardt and Fabian Link (Eds.), Historiographical Approaches to Past Archaeological Research, Berlin: Edition Topoi, 2015, 133–164
165–189 Felix Wiedemann, "Stones and Stories. On the Use of Narratological Approaches for Writing the History of Archaeology", in: Gisela Eberhardt and Fabian Link (Eds.), Historiographical Approaches to Past Archaeological Research, Berlin: Edition Topoi, 2015, 165–189
191–222 Fabian Link, "“More Important than all Technical Features Would Appear to us the volkliche Differences”. Gotthard Neumann and the völkisch thought in German Prehistory, 1920s–1960s", in: Gisela Eberhardt and Fabian Link (Eds.), Historiographical Approaches to Past Archaeological Research, Berlin: Edition Topoi, 2015, 191–222
223–242 Serge Reubi, "Why is the Dialogue so Difficult between the Historiography of the Social Sciences and the Historiography of Science?", in: Gisela Eberhardt and Fabian Link (Eds.), Historiographical Approaches to Past Archaeological Research, Berlin: Edition Topoi, 2015, 223–242