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Bibliographic resources on the history of archaeology (subject authorities and catalogues)

Concepts and authorities

Catalogues

IUPPS “History of archaeology” commission: collective publications

The commission has published the following items.

2021. New Advances in the History of Archaeology

de Beaune, S., A. Guidi, O. Moro Abadía, M. Tarantini, (eds) 2021, New Advances in the History of Archaeology, Oxford: Archaeopress, 228 p.

The book is freely accessible on the Archaeopress website.
  • Elena Rossoni-Notter, Olivier Notter, Patrick Simon, Suzanne Simone. Démarche d’historien et de préhistorien ou comment pallier les manques dans l’étude de collections anciennes ? Exemples des Balzi Rossi (Ligurie, Italie) et de la grotte de l’Observatoire (Monaco)
  • T. Rowan McLaughlin, Eóin Parkinson, Catriona Brogan, Simon Stoddart, Caroline Malone. Santa Verna in 1911 and 2015: re-examining pioneering stratigraphic excavation methods in Malta
  • Massimo Tarantini. The multiple roots of an innovative excavation: G.A. Blanc at the Romanelli Cave, Italy (1914-1938)
  • Gianna Reginelli Servais. Paul Vouga à La Tène et à Auvernier : la stratigraphie à l’épreuve de la typologie
  • Federico Nomi, Massimo Cultraro, Alessandro Guidi, Sebastiano Tusa. Pioneers of archaeological stratigraphical techniques: Luigi Bernabò Brea (1910-1999) and Giorgio Buchner (1914-2005)
  • Sébastien Plutniak. Abstraction in Archaeological Stratigraphy: a Pyrenean Lineage of Innovation (late 19th–early 21th century)
  • Sophie A. de Beaune. Three career itineraries that linked prehistory, archaeology, and technology: Augustus Lane Fox Pitt Rivers (1827-1900), André Leroi-Gourhan (1911-1986) and François Sigaut (1940-2012)
  • Oscar Moro Abadía. The tragic fate of heroic precursors in the history of archaeology: the case of Boucher de Perthes
  • Rémi Labrusse. Primitif, précurseur, contemporain. Approches de l’art paléolithique au fondement de la pensée moderne
  • Giorgos Vavouranakis, Georgia Kourtessi-Philippakis. Antiquity all over the place: evolutions and revolutions in early prehistoric research in Greece during the 1960s
  • Shumon T. Hussain. Compelling image-worlds: a pictorial perspective on the epistemology of stone artefact analysis in Palaeolithic archaeology
  • Marcelo J. Toledo. Luján, L’Abbeville des pampas. Amateurs, traders, and scholars behind the search of the pampean fossil man (1865-1884)
  • Aurora Pețan. From mining to archaeology. An Austrian experiment in Transylvania at the beginning of the 19th century
  • Marzena Woźny. Interdisciplinary research of the caves conducted by the Academy of Arts and Sciences in Cracow at the turn of 19th and 20th centuries
  • Massimo Tarantini. Interdisciplinarity and institutions. The case of Italian prehistoric archaeology (1875-1954)

2016. International Perspectives

Delley, G., Díaz-Andreu, M., Djindjian, F., Fernández, V.M., Guidi, A., Kaeser, M.-A. (eds), 2016. History of Archaeology: International Perspectives, Oxford: Archaeopress, 237 p.

The book is freely accessible on the Archaeopress website.
  • Margarita Díaz-Andreu and Víctor M. Fernández. Introduction: International relations in the history of archaeology
  • Eduardo Palacio-Pérez. British ideas in a French World. Victorian anthropologists and the creation of the concept of Palaeolithic Art (1890-1906)
  • Karina Vanesa Chichkoyan. From far away: museums, collections and scientific research
  • Francisco Sánchez Salas. Funding international study trips in early twentieth century Europe: the JAE grants and the presence of Spanish archaeologists in Italy (1907-1936)
  • Margarita Díaz-Andreu. Romanità in Spain? The contacts between Spanish and Italian classical archaeologists during the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera (1923-1930)
  • Patrícia Conde, João Carlos Senna-Martínez, Ana Cristina Martins. Archaeological connections: tracking and tracing international relations throughout Portuguese colonialism
  • Enrique Gozalbes-Cravioto. Africanism and international relations in Spanish prehistoric archaeology (1939-1956)
  • Géraldine Delley. Internationalism and lake-dwelling research after the Second World War
  • Sébastien Plutniak and Massimo Tarantini. An Influential Outsider. Georges Laplace between French institutions and Italian prehistory
  • Ana Cristina Martins. The ‘Tagus Generation’ in Portuguese archaeology: transition, innovation or ‘revolution’? (A first analysis)
  • Víctor M. Fernández. Learning to be scientific. The introduction of ‘New Archaeology’ in Spain, 1975-1990
  • Lawrence Guy Straus. The Chicago Connection in Spanish Paleolithic Prehistory
  • François Djindjian and Alessandro Guidi. Introduction: The Revolution of the Sixties in Prehistory and Protohistory
  • François Djindjian. The Revolution of the Sixties in Prehistory and Protohistory
  • Lioudmila Iakovleva. La préhistoire en Union Soviétique des années 1950 aux années 1960
  • Alessandro Guidi. Marxism in the European archaeology of the sixties: the case studies of Italy and France
  • Anne-Catherine Welté. Les relevés de Léon Pales et ses lectures de l’art mobilier sur les pierres gravées de La Marche (Vienne)
  • Ana Cristina Martins. ‘Mission’: modernize! Portuguese archaeology in the 1960s (a preamble)
  • Tim Murray. The New Archaeology and the Archaeology of Australia
  • Marc-Antoine Kaeser. Innovative alliances in the history of archaeology: introduction to a new field of inquiry
  • Géraldine Delley. Radiocarbon and archaeology: an innovative alliance in the post-WWII scientific field
  • Alessandro Guidi. Lobbying for archaeology in the Italian ‘First Republic’
  • Sébastien Plutniak. Interests on the margins of the disciplines: computing, engineers and archaeologists in France (1950–2000)
  • Tim Murray. The Australian Research Council and the archaeology of the modern city in Australia

2009. Archaeologists without Boundaries

Babeş, M. & Kaeser, M.-A. (eds), 2009. Archaeologists without Boundaries. Towards a History of International Archaeological Congresses (1866-2006). Oxford: Archaeopress, 51 p., doi: 10.30861/9781407306223.

  • Marc-Antoine Kaeser. Establishing Prehistory. The Foundation of the International Congress (1865/1866)
  • Ana Cristina Martins. The 15th Congrès international d’Anthropologie et d’Archéologie préhistorique (Portugal, 1930)
  • Erzsébet Marton. A Portrait of Flóris Rómer in the frame of Budapest-Lisbon CIAAPs 1876-1880 Congresses
  • Ulrike Sommer. The International Congress of Prehistoric Anthropology and Archaeology and German Archaeology
  • Arnaud Hurel, Amélie Vialet. Les congrès internationaux d’anthropologie et d’archéologie préhistoriques (1866-1912) et la question de l’éveil d’une conscience patrimoniale collective (fouilles, gisements, collections)
  • Jarl Nordbladh. A Scandinavian view of the beginning of congress times
  • Nicolae Ursulescu, Madalin-Cornel Valeanu. Le début de la culture de cucuteni dans l’archéologie européenne

2009. Antiquarians at the Megaliths

Midgley, M. (ed.) 2009. Antiquarians at the Megaliths. Oxford: Archaeopress, 78 p. doi: 10.30861/9781407304397

  • Magdalena S. Midgley. Antiquarians at the megaliths: Introductory thoughts
  • Jan Albert Bakker. Chronicle of megalith research in the Netherlands, 1547-1900
  • Serge Cassen and Cyrille Chaigneau. Jean-Marie Bachelot de la Pylaie (1786-1856). The journey of an archeologist among the antiquaries in Brittany in the second half of the XIXth century
  • Torben Dehn. The Videdys long dolmen 1643-2006
  • Barbara Fritsch. Research history of the Altmark megalithic tombs
  • Ana Cristina Martins. Nineteenth-century Portuguese at the megaliths
  • Jeff Sanders. William Greenwell and the diversity of antiquarianism
  • Heather Sebire. The Lukis family of Guernsey and the study of megaliths in the 19th century
  • Karl-Göran Sjögren. Antiquarians at Swedish megaliths

New publication: New Advances in the History of Archaeology

The proceedings of the historical sessions of the 18th IUPPS World Congress have been recently published in open access by Archaeopress. Edited by Sophie A. de Beaune, Alessandro Guidi, Oscar Moro Abadía, Massimo Tarantini, the volume New Advances in the History of Archaeology contains 15 contributions and is divided into three sections entitled:

  • From Stratigraphy to Stratigraphic Excavation in Pre- and Protohistoric Archaeology
  • Epistemology, History and Philosophy of Science: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the History of Archaeology
  • Archaeology and interdisciplinarity, from the 19th century to present-day research.

Authors

Sophie A. de Beaune, Catriona Brogan, Massimo Cultraro, Alessandro Guidi, Shumon T. Hussain, Georgia Kourtessi-Philippakis, Rémi Labrusse, Caroline Malone, T. Rowan McLaughlin, Oscar Moro Abadía, Federico Nomi, Olivier Notter, Eóin Parkinson, Aurora Pețan, Sébastien Plutniak, Gianna Reginelli Servais, Elena Rossoni-Notter, Patrick Simon, Suzanne Simone, Simon Stoddart, Massimo Tarantini, Marcelo J. Toledo, Sebastiano Tusa, Giorgos Vavouranakis, Marzena Woźny.

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