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Imaging and imagining the Neanderthal: the role of technical drawings in archaeology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

David Van Reybrouck
David Van Reybrouck*
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Faculty of Archaeology, University of Leiden, PO Box 9515, 2300 RA Leiden, Netherlands. D.Van.Reybrouck@arch.LeidenUniv.nl
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Abstract

Reconstruction drawings intended to illustrate the realities of prehistoric life can be famously revealing of preconceptions in the minds of the modern illustrator and of the researcher who briefs the illustrator. But are the less interpretative drawings whose purpose is to record the material evidence more neutral in their look? Nineteenth-century technical illustrations of the Neanderthal skull are unintentionally revealing of attitude.

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Antiquity , Volume 72 , Issue 275 , March 1998 , pp. 56 - 64
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1998

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