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The “History of archaeology” commission of the International Union for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences (IUPPS)

In 1865 the first international organization for prehistoric archaeology was founded in La Spezia (Italy) as the Congrès international d’anthropologie et d’archéologie préhistorique (CIAAP). It was active until the First World War, when it was dissolved due to the rivalries between nations. A new organization was created in 1931, in Bern, to continue this international effort, the “International Union for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences” (IUPPS). Since then, it groups together all the sciences related to prehistoric and protohistoric studies: archaeology, anthropology, palaeontology, geology, zoology, botany, environmental sciences, physics, chemistry, geography, history, numismatics, epigraphy, mathematics and other.
Research into the mechanisms of adaption and the dynamics of human societies lies at the heart of the IUPPS’s scientific interest. The IUPPS therefore periodically organises a world congress of prehistoric and protohistoric sciences and creates scientific commissions devoted to specific research issues.
One of these commissions is devoted to the History of Archaeology.

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IUPPS “History of Archaeology” commission: members’ publications 2024

  • de Beaune S. 2024. “André Leroi-Gourhan et Moret-sur-Loing : la naissance d’une vocation”, Culture & Patrimoine. La revue des Amis de Moret et de sa Région, 249, p. 9-18.
  • Delley G., Kaeser, M.-A. 2024. «Collections patrimoniales et polysémie des matériaux archéologiques: L’apport heuristique et muséographique d’une réflexivité sur les trajectoires des objets», in C. Louboutin, A. Lehoërff (eds.), Archéologie en musée et identités nationales en Europe (1848-1914): Un héritage en quête de nouveaux défis au 21e siècle. Leiden, Sidestone Press, p. 29-47.
  • Laffranchi Z., Zingale S., Indra L., Lösch S., Coia V., Salazar Garcia D. G., Paladin A., Kaeser M.-A., Delley G., Szidat S., Lösch S., Zink A., Milella M. 2024. «Geographic origin, ancestry, and death circumstances at the Cornaux/les Sauges Iron Age bridge, Switzerland», Scientific Reports – Nature Portfolio [London] 14:12180 doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-62524-y
  • Díaz-Andreu M., Coltofean L. (eds.) Forthcoming December 2024. Handbook of the History of Archaeology. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Guidi A. 2024. Marxist Archaeologyin Nikita E., Rehren T. (eds.), Encyclopaedia of Archaeology, second edition, vol. 1, London, Academic Press, p. 413-419.
  • Rubat Borel F. Guidi A. 2024. Le Museo Nazionale Preistorico Etnografico de Rome : les buts et les méthodes de Luigi Pigorini, in C. Loboutin, A, Lehoërff (eds.), Archéologie en musée et identités nationales en Europe (1848 — 1914), Rencontres du MAN 1, Sidestone Press, Leiden, p. 291-317.
  • Kaeser M.-A. 2024. «Les faux et les fraudes en archéologie». In V. Negri & N. Schlanger (eds.), Le droit de l’archéologie. Genèse et développements du XIXe au XXIe siècles. Paris, La Documentation française, 5 p.
  • Pernet L., Guichard V., Kaeser M.-A. 2024. « Gilbert Kaenel (1949-2020) et l’archéologie au musée », in C. Louboutin, A. Lehoërff eds., Archéologie en musée et identités nationales en Europe (1848-1914) : Un héritage en quête de nouveaux défis au 21e siècle. Leiden, Sidestone Press: 11-27.
  • Kaeser M.-A. 2024. «Unexpected World Heritage Connections : Le Corbusier and Prehistoric Pile-Dwellings». Ouvrage collectif offert à Albert Hafner pour ses 65 ans. Bern, Universität Bern.
  • Linetty J. 2024Średniowieczne drzwi żelazne z Ostrowa Lednickiego [Medieval iron doors from Ostrów Lednicki], in K. Kaczmarek, J. Linetty, M. Przybył (eds), Między archeologią a historią. Księga dedykowana pamięci prof. dr. hab. Andrzeja Marka Wyrwy (1955-2022), Poznań, p. 385-410.
  • Kaczmarek K., J. Linetty, M. Przybył (eds). 2024Między archeologią a historią. Księga dedykowana pamięci prof. dr. hab. Andrzeja Marka Wyrwy (1955-2022) [Between archeology and history. A book dedicated to memory of prof. dr. hab. Andrzej Marek Wyrwa (1955-2022)], Poznań.

IUPPS “History of Archaeology” commission: members’ publications 2023

  • Alarcón-Jiménez, A. M., Jiménez Pasalodos, R., Díaz-Andreu, M., 2023. “A Glimpse Behind Closed Doors. Alfred L. Kroeber and the Representation of Native Californian Music”, History and Anthropology, 34 (3), 521-539. doi: 10.1080/02757206.2021.1983561.
  • Arnold B. 2023.The perils of a usable past: archaeology’s journey from culture history to culture wars”,  Getty-CAS Spring School Working Paper Series, 13, 1 “The Impact of the Political on Archaeological Research”, p. 1-22. University of Sofia, Bulgaria. 
  • Bulyk N., Berest R. 2023. “The Didushytsky family’s mission in conservation and research of Galician historical and archaeological heritage”, Східноєвропейський історичний вісник. Вип. 27. p. 81–89. doi: 10.24919/2519-058X.27.281516
  • Bulyk N., Berest R. 2023. “Lviv archaeological environment during World War I”. Archaeologia Polona. vol. 61. p. 75–104. doi: 10.23858/APa61.2023.3299
  • Cataldi M. 2023. “Les relevés des Wandjina de George Grey. De « l’art aborigène » à « l’art primitif » (1838-1906)”, Organon, 55, p. 105-130
  • de Beaune S. A., N. Richard. 2023. “The professionalization of female prehistorians in France in the Twentieth Century”, in S. L. López Varela (ed.), Women Achievements in Archaeology: Intersectionalities in Practice Worlwide, Springer, Highlights Women’s Accomplishments series, p. 243-268.
  • Díaz-Andreu, M. 2023. “Women’s Pathways in the History of Spanish Archaeology (19th and 20th Centuries)”, In López Varela, S. L. (ed.) Women in Archaeology: Intersectionalities in Practice Worldwide Women in Engineering and Science. Springer, Cham, p. 221-242. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-27650-7_11.
  • Díaz-Andreu, M., 2023. “Visigothic Archaeology. An example the influence of National Socialism in Spain?”, in Eickhoff, M., Modl, D., Meheux, K., Nuijten, E. (eds.), National-Socialist Archaeology in Europe and its Legacies. Springer, Cham, p. 463-484. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-28024-5_20.
  • Díaz-Andreu, M., 2023. “La integración de la mujer en los museos arqueológicos en España: una historia centenaria”, in Fatás Monforte, P., Díaz-González, L. M., Martínez Llano, A. M. (eds.), Los bisontes de Altamira los descubrió una mujer. Museos, arqueología, patrimonio y género. Museo Nacional y Centro de Investigación de Altamira, Madrid, p. 15-38.
  • Fitzpatrick A., M.-A. Kaeser. 2023. “La Tène. A place of memory”, Current World Archaeology, 120, p. 24-31.
  • Guidi A. 2023. Scarabelli nel contesto dell’archeologia preistorica europea, in G. B. Vai (ed.), Scarabelli, un pioniere sempre! (Atti convegno Imola 2022), Thedolite Editore, Imola , p. 9-13.
  • Guidi A. 2023. Gli atlanti di paletnologia in Italia nel XIX secolo, in I. Tirabassi, R. Macellari, G.A. Rossi (eds), L’atlante di Paletnologia del Reggiano di Don Gaetano Chierici, Edizioni della Deputazione di Storia Patria per le Antiche Province Modenesi-Sezione di Reggio Emilia, p. 37-48.
  • Kaeser M.-A. 2023. “Les musées, l’émerveillement archéologique et le respect de l’altérité préhistorique”, in J.-M. Geneste, P. Grosos, B. Valentin (eds.), Préhistoire : Nouvelles frontières. Paris, Éditions de la Maison des Sciences de l’homme, p. 403-409.
  • Kaeser M.-A. 2023. “Biography in science studies and the historiography of archaeology: Some methodological guidelines”, in C. Lewis & G. Moshenska (eds.) Life-Writing in the History of Archaeology: Critical Perspectives. London, University College London Press, p. 25-44.
  • Kaeser M.-A. 2023. “Le passé ‘helvétique’ de la Suisse. Préhistoire d’un adjectif historique”, arCHaeo – Revue d’Archéologie Suisse, 3, p. 12-14.
  • Kaeser M.-A. 2023. “Exposition : Du cœur à l’ouvrage  ». arCHaeo – Revue d’Archéologie Suisse, 3, p. 47.
  • Kostrhun P. 2023. “Jan Jelínek´s Romania, 1974”. Anthropologie, 61 (3), p. 343–349.
  • Linetty J. 2023. Profesor dr hab. Andrzej Marek Wyrwa (1955-2022) – dyrektor Muzeum Pierwszych Piastów na Lednicy [Professor Andrzej Marek Wyrwa (1955-2022), director of the Museum of the First Piasts at Lednica], Muzealnictwo, t. 64, p. 180-185.
  • Moreno Martín, F. J., Díaz-Andreu, M., 2023. “Vino rancio en odres nuevos. La arquitectura y el espíritu nacional en la obra de Manuel Gómez-Moreno”, in Moya Morales, J., Martín-Lagos Carreras, I. (eds.), Manuel Gómez-Moreno y los dólmenes de Antequera. Consejería de Turismo, Cultura y Deporte. Junta de Andalucía, Sevilla, p. 69-86.
  • Oliva, M., P. Kostrhun. 2023. “National Socialist Archaeology in Bohemia, Moravia, and Slovakia”, in M. Eickhoff, D. Modl, K. Meheux, E. Nuijten (eds.), National-Socialist Archaeology in Europe and its Legacies, p. 99 – 126. ISBN: 978-3-031-28023-8.
  • Ramírez Galicia A. 2023.¿Para qué sirve la prehistoria?”, Contrahistorias. Pensamiento crítico y contracultura, Mexico, 3e serie, 33, September 2022-February 2023, p. 99-112.
  • Rosner C. 2023. Creuser la terre-patrie : une histoire de l’archéologie en Palestine et Israël. Paris : CNRS éditions.
  • Plutniak S. 2023. “L’autonomisation éditoriale de la publication des données : des tirés-à-parts aux data journals en archéologie (1950–2000)”, in N. Verdier, H. Védrine, A. Kalantzis (eds.) Les périodiques comme médiateurs culturels. Autour de la diffusion des savoirs. Séminaire PéLiAS (Périodiques, Littérature, Arts, Sciences) 2019-2022, Actes, Gif-sur-Yvette : MSH Paris-Saclay Éditions, p. 155-173, doi : 10.52983/qbtj3499
  • Manikowska E., A. Fedorowicz-Jackowska, K. Kłudkiewicz, W. Walanus, Woźny M. 2023. Porządek dziedzictwa w XIX wieku. Polskie pojęcia i wyobrażenia [The Order of Heritage in the Nineteenth Century. Polish Notions and Representations], Warszawa, Instytut Sztuki PAN. ISBN 978-83-66519-68-8.
  • Woźny M. 2023. Ofiarodawstwo na rzecz Muzeum Archeologicznego AU i PAU, in M. Stinia (ed.), Mecenasi Akademii Umiejętności i Polskiej Akademii Umiejętności, Kraków, s. 123–135.
  • Woźny M. 2023. Zarys historii badań archeologicznych nad epoką kamienia na terenie Wyżyny Krakowsko-Częstochowskiej w XIX i XX wieku, in W. Borkowski et al. (eds), Krzemień jurajski w pradziejach. Materiały z konferencji w Krakowie 28–30 września 2017, Warszawa-Kraków, p. 15–44.
  • Vashanau, A., D. H. Werra, M. Brandl, V. Asheichyk, M. Woźny. 2023. Z bliska czy z daleka? Analiza skałek krzemiennych z Białorusi, [in:] W. Borkowski et al. (eds), Krzemień jurajski w pradziejach. Materiały z konferencji w Krakowie 28–30 września 2017, Warszawa-Kraków, p. 263–300.
  • Tunia K., M. Woźny. 2023. Editorial, Archaeologia Polona, 61, Echoes of war – 20th-century Conflict Archaeology, p. 1–4.

“Dialectiques pyrénéennes : espaces esthétiques, terrains scientifiques. Contrastes et mélanges en hommage à Georges Laplace”, 19-21 September 2024, Arudy (France)

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The conference Dialectiques pyrénéennes : espaces esthétiques, terrains scientifiques. Contrastes et mélanges en hommage à Georges Laplace (Pyrenean Dialectics: Aesthetic Spaces, Scientific Fields. Contrasts and Miscellanea in Honour of Georges Laplace) is organised twenty years after the French prehistoric archaeologist Georges Laplace passed away. The event takes place in Arudy, in the Pyrenees, where Laplace carried out his most significant research activities, namely organising yearly “typology seminars” (from 1969 to 1989), creating and managing a museum (the Maison d’Ossau – Musée d’Arudy) and publishing the Dialektikê journal.

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