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A feast for the eyes: celebrating prehistory in the de Mortillet dinners (an iconographic dossier)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Nathan Schlanger
Affiliation:
AREA project, Institut national d'histoire de l'art, 2 rue Vivienne, 75002 Paris, France. area@inha.fr
Philippe Soulier
Affiliation:
Sous-direction de l'archéologie, Ministère de la culture et de la communication, 4 rue d'Aboukir, 75002 Paris, France.

Extract

Several menus designed as invitations/souvenirs for the de Mortillet dinners from 1898 onwards are presented here as an iconographic dossier to illustrate aspects of prehistoric archaeology. These menus are briefly discussed below, and ten of them are reproduced at appropriate locations throughout this special section (with reference to the present text).

Type
Special section: Ancestral Archives: Explorations in the History of Archaeology
Copyright
Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2002

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