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On the international roots of prehistory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Marc-Antoine Kaeser
Marc-Antoine Kaeser*
Affiliation:
Swiss National Museum, Department of Archeology, Hardturmstr. 185, CH-8005 Zürich, Switzerland. ma.kaeser@bluewin.ch
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Introduction

In recent years, considerable attention has been dedicated to the involvement of archaeology (and most notably prehistory) with nationalism. The probable causes of this recent fashion1 need not concern 11s here, but the movement itself is ccrtninly welcome, testifying to the reflection of archaeologists on their own practices and those of their predecessors. For historians, this trend is quite welcome insofar as it contributes to a general renaissance of interest in the past of the discipline. However, a more careful examination of this historiography leads us to some caution about its significance.

Keywords

institutionalizationnationalismantiquarianismcultural evolutioninternational congrees of prehistoryarchiveshistory of archaeology
Type
Special section: Ancestral Archives: Explorations in the History of Archaeology
Information
Antiquity , Volume 76 , Issue 291 , March 2002 , pp. 170 - 177
Copyright
Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2002

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