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Ancestral Archives: Explorations in the History of Archaeology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Nathan Schlanger
Nathan Schlanger*
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AREA project, Institut national d'histoire de l'art, 2 rue Vivienne, 75002 Paris, France. area@inha.fr
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Historiographic revelations

Back from his famous visit to Boucher de Perthes in the spring of 1859, John Evans hastened to invite some antiquarians friends in London to examine his finds. The flint implements he had collected with Joseph Prestwich in the undisturbed gravel beds of the Somme valley were indeed. or so ho believed, altogether new in appearance and totally unlike anything known in this country [Evans 1869: 93-4):

But while I was waiting in the rooms of the Society of Antiquaries, expecting some friends to come out of the meeting room, I looked at a case in one of the windows seats, and was ahsolutely horror-struck to see in it three or four implements precisely resembling those found at Abbeville and Amiens. I enquirer1 where they came kom, but nobody knew, as they were not labelled. On reference, however, it turned out that they had been deposited in the museum of the Society for sixty years, and that an account of them had been published in Archaeologia …

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Special section: Ancestral Archives: Explorations in the History of Archaeology
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Antiquity , Volume 76 , Issue 291 , March 2002 , pp. 127 - 131
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2002

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