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Apart from wars, other contexts of social conflict have recently become a setting in which archaeologists are faced with acute, sometimes armed, violence. On the African continent, a region often overlooked in discussions of “archaeology... more
For more than 10 years, I was one of a number of American and Yemeni archaeologists surveying and excavating sites dating to the fabled South Arabian kingdoms and beyond, to prehistoric times. We were members of the Dhamar Survey Project,... more
Introduction to a special book review section on pseudo-archaeology for the journal American Antiquity. See American Antiquity 80(3):615-629 (2015) for full set of reviews.
Archaeology is notoriously vulnerable to the ideological pressures of authoritarian regimes. This paper charts the political influences that shaped archaeology in Spain for some 40 years. Following the Civil War Spanish archaeologists... more
ENGLISH The myth of the siege of Masada (73 CE) was one of the essential elements of the Israeli nation building. The article analyzes how the Zionist movement and the State of Israel have used the myth in the XX century. ITALIAN... more
En este texto se analiza el proceso de apropiación simbólica por el cual la Dama de Elche (s. IV a. C.) se ha convertido en referente de la identidad regional valenciana. Para ello se revisarán los contextos sociopolíticos y culturales... more
Apart from wars, other contexts of social conflict have recently become a setting in which archaeologists are faced with acute, sometimes armed, violence. On the African continent, a region often overlooked in discussions of “archaeology... more
Este artículo no pretende ser la síntesis del desarrollo de la arqueología boliviana y sus protagonistas sino discutir los recientes cambios en las características centralistas y colonialistas, tanto regionales como temáticas, en las... more
During the construction period of the controversial Merowe Dam in Sudan, foreign archaeologists were surveying and excavating in order to save the cultural heritage of the land to be flooded without considering the local people's attitude... more
Ethics has abandoned its niche status to become a shared concern across archaeology. The appraisal of the sociopolitical context of archaeological practice since the 1980s has forced the discipline to take issue with the expanding array... more
For a long time, heritage has been associated with positive and productive values: the construction of ideas of community and nation, and even international identities. During the last decade and a half, however, there has been a growing... more
This article explores the demographic history of Dacia/Romania during and after Roman colonization as a study in the effects of colonialism and de-colonization in the core area vs. the periphery, the identification of local vs. transitory... more
Academic writing has, for many years, perpetuated the thinking that the San or Bushmen were largely extinct. The dominance of this view was encouraged by historical evidence that Bushmen were hunted and killed by Europeans and... more
Preface; Chapter 1. An alternative account of the history of archaeology in the nineteenth century; Part I. The Early Archaeology of the Great Civilisations; Chapter 2; Antiquities and political prestige in the early modern era; Chapter... more
Il volume ha come tema centrale l’uso che è stato fatto, nel corso dei secoli, delle antichità della Calabria ai fini della costruzione di una identità regionale. Partendo dall’epoca romana si cerca di fare luce sulla percezione che, per... more
Eine vom Ministerium für Familie, Kinder, Jugend, Kultur und Sport des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen finanzierte Informationsschrift.
Archaeology has been an important source of metaphors for some of the key intellectuals of the 20th century: Sigmund Freud, Walter Benjamin, Alois Riegl and Michel Foucault, amongst many others. However, this power has also turned against... more
The myth of «Romanity» was a fundamental aspect of Fascist propaganda and ideology. However, in Italy, scholars began to investigate this theme as an object worthy of historical interest only from the mid-1970s on. There appear to have... more
Nel breve editoriale di questo mese non ci soffermeremo, come di consueto, sui contenuti della monogra--Di seguito il testo del bando:
Italian imperialism in Africa, especially in Libya, was from the start connected with the ideology of Romanità. Of course, Italy's colonial experience ended traumatically with the disaster of WWII, followed by the collective removal of... more
Se consideră, în general, că există o unică tradiţie a arheologiei române, cu o evoluţie continuă de la colecţionari şi anticari şi străbătând apoi, în continuu progres, mai multe etape marcate de diferite personalităţi -Alexandru Odobescu
In 2015, Pope Francis elevated Franciscan missionary Junípero Serra to sainthood, reinforcing the association between the California missions and the founding of Euroamerican colonies in western North America. Yet the canonization also... more
A short review of the relationship between European archaeology and colonialism, during both the colonial and post-colonial eras.
Senaquerib trasladó la capital del Imperio asirio de Dur Sharrukin llamado ekallu sa sanina la Isu o "palacio sin rival".
In Rough Cilicia, monumental public architecture was built in the initial phase of the social and political formation of Asia Minor into the Roman Empire during the Imperial Period. As bathing complexes are the most abundant and diverse... more
Zusammenfassung in Deutsch Im ehemaligen Michaeliskloster von Hildesheim war bis 1943 eine Nervenheilanstalt eingerichtet. Nach der Verschleppung und Ermordung vieler der dort untergebrachten psychisch kranken und körperlich... more
This research explores the ways that social networks articulated with major sociopolitical transformations across Southern Appalachia between AD 600 and 1600. This study focuses on the broad, regional connections between members of... more
I l semplice gesto di portarci alle labbra un bicchiere di vino potrebbe, qualche volta, ricordarci che stiamo bevendo un estratto di storia, oltre che di uva. Stiamo bevendo una parte del nostro passato, una parte della nostra storia del... more
Archaeology has been an important source of metaphors for some of the key intellectuals of the 20 th century , including philosophers, writers, art historians and historians: Sigmund Freud, Walter Benjamin, Alois Riegl, Michel Foucault or... more
Zusammenfassung: Das wissenschaftliche Werk von Ernst Curtius – außerordentlicher Professor der Archäologie in Berlin seit 1844, von 1856–1868 Professor für Klassische Philologie und Archäologie in Göttingen und seit 1868 Professor für... more