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{"title":"A Review of From Antiquarian to Archaeologist: The History and Philosophy of Archaeology","authors":"G. Moshenska","doi":"10.5334/BHA.2420","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5334/BHA.2420","url":null,"abstract":"From Antiquarian to Archaeologist brings together fourteen of Tim Murray’s papers on the history, philosophy and sociology of archaeology published over two decades. The volume displays many of the common characteristics of collected papers: both strengths such as convenience and the drawing out of common threads, and weaknesses such as overlap and repetition. In volumes of this kind there are inevitably a mixture of well known and less well known papers: Murray’s study of the  Ancient Monuments Protection Act is anthologised and widely cited; whereas his chapter on Archbishop Ussher’s chronology has hitherto been buried in Leo Klejn’s intimidatingly Cyrillicheavy festschrift.","PeriodicalId":41664,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the History of Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2014-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.5334/BHA.2420","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71063924","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"From Ethnographical Subjects to Archaeological Objects: Pierre Loti on Easter Island (Rapa Nui)","authors":"D. Schávelzon","doi":"10.5334/BHA.2419","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5334/BHA.2419","url":null,"abstract":"In 1872 French sailor Pierre Loti visited the desolate Pacific island of Rapa Nui . Descriptions in his diary and drawings were published and received great public interest. Here were all the ingredients  to satisfy nineteenth century ideas of the exotic: remote, tropical, cannibal inhabited, strange rituals and frenzied dancing, and in addition – the ruins of an ancient and unknown civilisation. But Loti had visited the island almost at the end of its occupation by its indigenous people. The large stone statues had not been erect for some time, even though he recorded them as being so, and its population had been decimated. So Loti’s graphic and written descriptions were embellished for his audience, a fact that is almost as interesting as the real fate of Rapa Nui.","PeriodicalId":41664,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the History of Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2014-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.5334/BHA.2419","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71063638","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Review of World Antiquarianism: Comparative Perspectives","authors":"C. Evans","doi":"10.5334/BHA.2418","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5334/BHA.2418","url":null,"abstract":"Edited by Alain Schnapp, with Lothar von Falkenhausen, Peter N. Miller and Tim Murray, Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 464 pages, 2014, ISBN: 9781606061480","PeriodicalId":41664,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the History of Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2014-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.5334/BHA.2418","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71063987","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Big Sites, Big Questions, Big Data, Big Problems: Scales of Investigation and Changing Perceptions of Archaeological Practice in the Southeastern United States","authors":"Cameron B. Wesson, J. Cottier","doi":"10.5334/BHA.2416","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5334/BHA.2416","url":null,"abstract":"Since at least the 1930s, archaeological investigations in the southeastern United States have placed a priority on expansive, near-complete, excavations of major sites throughout the region. Although there are considerable advantages to such large–scale excavations, projects conducted at this scale are also accompanied by a series of challenges regarding the comparability, integrity, and consistency of data recovery, analysis, and publication. We examine the history of large–scale excavations in the southeast in light of traditional views within the discipline that the region has contributed little to the ‘big questions’ of American archaeology. Recently published analyses of decades old data derived from Southeastern sites reveal both the positive and negative aspects of field research conducted at scales much larger than normally undertaken in archaeology. Furthermore, given the present trend toward the use of big data in the social sciences, we predict an increased use of large pre–existing datasets developed during the New Deal and other earlier periods of archaeological practice throughout the region.","PeriodicalId":41664,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the History of Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2014-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.5334/BHA.2416","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71063490","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Review of Archaeology in the ‘Land of Tells and Ruins’. A History of Excavations in the Holy Land Inspired by the Photographs and Accounts of Leo Boer","authors":"T. Murray","doi":"10.5334/BHA.2417","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5334/BHA.2417","url":null,"abstract":"Archaeology in the ‘Land of Tells and Ruins’. A History of Excavations in the Holy Land Inspired by the Photographs and Accounts of Leo Boer , edited by Bart Wagemakers, Oxford: Oxbow Books, 264 pages, 2014, ISBN: 9781782972457","PeriodicalId":41664,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the History of Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2014-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.5334/BHA.2417","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71064096","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Review of Essays in History of Archaeology. Themes, Institutions and Personalities","authors":"T. Murray","doi":"10.5334/BHA.2415","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5334/BHA.2415","url":null,"abstract":"Essays in History of Archaeology. Themes, Institutions and Personalities  by K. Paddayya, New Delhi, Archaeological Survey of India, 376 pages, 2013.","PeriodicalId":41664,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the History of Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2014-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.5334/BHA.2415","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71063386","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Mapping the Z-Axis: Early Archaeological Engagement with Time and Space in the Ancient Near East","authors":"Susan D. Cohen","doi":"10.5334/BHA.2413","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5334/BHA.2413","url":null,"abstract":"The development of the archaeology of the ancient Near East as an independent discipline in the nineteenth century, with its focus on uncovering the peoples and places of the past, particularly from the biblical world, contributed to a visual tradition that presented the time and space of an idealized historical past often influenced by religious preconceptions. Using the physical materials from excavated sites, and linking these discoveries with literal and uncritical readings of the Bible, European and American scholars in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries created maps for the public showing peoples, places, routes, and events from the past imposed on the contemporary landscape of the present. In so doing, the archaeology of the ancient Near East helped to define and create visual presentations of a particularized view of the past that continues to hold significance for common understandings of history in the present.","PeriodicalId":41664,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the History of Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2014-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.5334/BHA.2413","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71063242","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Review of Anthropology at Harvard. A Biographical History, 1790–1940","authors":"T. Murray","doi":"10.5334/BHA.2414","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5334/BHA.2414","url":null,"abstract":"Anthropology at Harvard. A Biographical History, 1790–1940 by David L. Browman and Stephen Williams. Peabody Museum Press, 589 pages, 2013, ISBN: 9780873659130","PeriodicalId":41664,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the History of Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2014-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.5334/BHA.2414","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71063314","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Review of Dialogues with the Dead: Egyptology in British Culture and Religion, 1822–1922","authors":"W. Carruthers","doi":"10.5334/BHA.2412","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5334/BHA.2412","url":null,"abstract":"By David Gange, Oxford University Press, Classical Presences, 368 pages, 2013, ISBN: 9780199653102","PeriodicalId":41664,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the History of Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2014-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.5334/BHA.2412","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71063175","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Distant Neighbours: Different Visions about Mexican Archaeology","authors":"Luis Gómez Gastélum, Cristina Ramírez Munguía, Mayela Guzmán Becerra","doi":"10.5334/BHA.2411","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5334/BHA.2411","url":null,"abstract":"In 1972, Mexican archaeology experienced a major transformation due to the enactment of a Federal Law about archaeological, artistic, and historical monuments and zones, which changed the Mexican Government’s administration of Mexican archaeological heritage. In 1972, in West Mexico, an active group of archaeologists from the U.S.A. was working. They came from several universities and were also members of an academic association, the West Mexican Society for Advanced Study, that was based in Ajijic, Mexico, and comprised both U.S. and Mexican archaeologists. This group wrote to the government about their views of the new laws, and the government department concerned with their implementation, the Mexican National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH – Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia), then responded with the Mexican Government’s official standpoint. In this paper, we analyze the positions of the West Mexican Society for Advanced Study, and INAH. We observe the sociopolitical and academic contexts from both U.S. and Mexican perspectives, and we offer explanations about their opposing views. We consider this episode to be a manifestation of the ideas circulating between U.S. and Mexican archaeologies. En 1972 la arqueologia mexicana tuvo un cambio radical. En ese ano fue promulgada la Ley Federal de Monumentos y Zonas Arqueologicos, Artisticos e Historicos. Esta ley cambio la manera en que el gobierno mexicano administraba el patrimonio arqueologico nacional. En dicho ano, en el occidente de Mexico, estuvo trabajando un grupo muy activo de arqueologos estadounidenses, que si bien procedian de diversas universidades, tambien fueron miembros de una institucion academica. La Sociedad de Estudios Avanzados del Occidente de Mexico, con sede en Ajijic, Mexico, reunio tanto a arqueologos estadounidenses como mexicanos. Los primeros escribieron un documento que contenia sus opiniones sobre la nueva ley y lo enviaron al Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia (INAH). Esta dependencia gubernamental discutio la propuesta y fijo la postura oficial del gobierno mexicano al respecto. En este articulo analizamos cada posicion. Observamos el contexto sociopolitico y academico tanto de la perspectiva estadounidense como de la mexicana y ofrecemos una explicacion sobre las posiciones encontradas. Consideramos este episodio como una manifestacion de la circulacion de las ideas entre las arqueologias estadounidense y mexicana.","PeriodicalId":41664,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the History of Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2014-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.5334/BHA.2411","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71063571","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}