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Bulletin of the History of Archaeology
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ISSN 2047-6930 · Ubiquity Press · 607 articles in the index
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Untangling the Many Faces of Edgar James Banks: Archaeologist, Lecturer, and Film Producer
The American archaeologist Edgar James Banks (1866–1945) left behind a multi-faceted image as an academic, a public scholar, a film producer, and an antiquities dealer. Reading about Banks in the words of others and in his own gives the impression of someone who carefully crafted his image and…
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The Politics of Provenance Research: Reassessing the Appropriation of Finds from the Samarra Excavations
Publications by the Berlin State Museum have justified the presence of archaeological objects from the Abbasid residence of Samarra in its collections by referring to a supposed legal division of finds between the excavators and the Ottoman authorities. However, despite the institution’s refusal to…
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The Roman Forum Excavation Under Lanciani and Boni: Classical Archaeology in Flux
This article reconsiders the Roman Forum excavation in the four decades after the Unification of Italy with the purpose of observing changes in the discipline of classical archaeology. It evaluates more than just the shift in what was considered normative skills for an excavator, such as those of…
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The Historiography of Prehistoric Archaeology in Britain: A Brief Outline
I begin by presenting a very brief overview of historiographic analysis in archaeology, noting that the past two decades have seen a significant expansion in the range and scope of histories of archaeology. An important aspect of this growing interest has been the expanding diversity in accounts of…
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An ‘Antiquity-Dealing-Business on a Large Scale’: The Business of Egyptian Archaeology and Capital, 1880s–1930s
This article explores the entanglement of archaeology and the antiquities trade in Egypt and Sudan during the antiquities rush of the British colonial period. I argue that the buying and selling of archaeological objects played a central role in the business of archaeology, which relied on the…
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The Formation and Maintenance of Communities of Practice: The Role of Book Reviews in British Archaeology 1840–1860
The nineteenth century was a pivotal time for archaeology which aimed to distance itself from its antiquarian roots through the establishment of national bodies, its own methodology and by striving for academic credibility. This was also the time when Britain experienced an explosion of print, with…
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Land of Wood and Water: Empire, Nation-building and a History of Archaeology on the Island of Jamaica
In 1984, archaeologist Bruce Trigger published his tripartite framework for understanding the history of archaeology, citing three main research modes: colonialist, imperialist and nationalist. This article uses Trigger’s framework to examine the history of archaeology in Jamaica, as an example of…
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Archaeology in the Central Highlands of Ethiopia: Research Trends and Prospects
Ethiopia is known to have immense archaeological resources. The central highlands of Ethiopia were one of the regions known to be home to diverse archaeological sites. The area served as a hub for religious and political dynamics during the medieval period, which attracted travelers since the 15th…
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The ‘New Romans,’ a Prestigious Museum, and a ‘Bosnian’ Identity: Archaeology and Colonialism in Austro-Hungarian Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1878–1918
Austria-Hungary ruled Bosnia and Herzegovina, which had previously been under the Ottomans, from 1878 to 1918, under circumstances often described as ‘colonial.’ Austro-Hungarian rule was accompanied by extensive archaeological activities. This paper investigates how that archaeology was colonial…
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Excavating the Nation: European Popular Nationalism and the Excavations of Delphi and Knossos, 1890–1914
Greek archaeology at the turn of the twentieth century existed at the intersection of a modern positivistic practice of scientific study and a longer-standing European fascination with the ancient world. As the continent’s masses increasingly engaged with popular fin-de-siècle nationalisms, they…
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Writing Archaeological Labour at Qau, Egypt, in the 1920s
This article offers a cautionary tale about exclusively relying on official archaeological reports for writing histories of archaeological labour. It investigates a small personal collection of postcards and photographs by British field assistant James Leslie Starkey to interrogate the…
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Tracking Local Employees of the British Mandate Department of Antiquities in Palestine
This paper presents the questions and methods that steered our tracking, in the archives, of local employees of the British Mandate Department of Antiquities in Palestine. After reflecting on the causes of a lack of in-depth knowledge of local actors of archaeology in British Mandate Palestine and…
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Gendering Labour in Palestinian Archaeology, 1890s–1930s
Women workers were a common sight on archaeological excavations in Palestine in the Late Ottoman and Mandate periods, their presence appearing in the historical record through anecdotal and ethnographic descriptions, wage lists or photographic archives. Recently, scholars have begun to explore this…
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Shedding Light on Labor: Photography, Archaeology, and the Making of Monumentality in Tajín, Mexico
This visual essay focuses on the visual documentation of the reconstruction of the archaeological site of Tajín from the late 1930s to the 1970s. During this period, the Mexican post-revolutionary state, motivated by the desire to forge a coherent nationality and boost mass tourism, actively…
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'The Underground' Zine and the Labor Movement in 1990s Compliance Archaeology
In this paper, we examine the context of archaeological labor in American cultural resource management (CRM) that led to the creation of the United Archaeological Field Technicians (UAFT) in the mid-1990s. In particular, we focus on The Underground, a zine/newsletter that was widely circulated…
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Introduction: Archaeological Labor in Historical Contexts
In this Introduction, we present a special issue on Histories of Labor in Archaeology. We begin by reviewing past work on archaeological labor and advocating for a broad definition of the term. Contributors to this issue address, among other themes, divisions of labor, worker specialization, and…
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Gordon Childe and Broadcasting: Archaeology, Science, and Politics
This study examines radio and television broadcasts made by prehistorian Vere Gordon Childe. Although the focus is on the BBC, Childe’s work with other global broadcasters is also examined. Childe was one of the first archaeologists to engage with broadcasting, working to ensure that reputable…
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Everything is a Deposit: An Interview with Pioneering Geoarchaeologist Julie K. Stein
Julie Stein’s professional work was vital to the emergence and development of geoarchaeology as both a discipline and specialized community of practice among archaeologists, especially in North America. On the occasion of her retirement we interviewed Stein to document her reflections on the…
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Digging Up Troy: The Workers of the University of Cincinnati Expedition to the Troad
The leaders of the University of Cincinnati Expedition to the Troad – Carl W. Blegen, Marion Rawson, and John L. Caskey – have their names emblazoned on the covers of all four double-volumes of the final publication, and they are remembered for their excavation at the legendary site of Troy. Yet…
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A Partnership of Unequals: Historicising Labour Relations Between Local and Foreign Archaeologists in Türkiye through Ottoman Comparanda
This article takes its departure from the authors’ ethnobiographical accounts of labour relations between local and foreign archaeologists collaborating on fieldwork projects in Türkiye, where native speakers undertake a double burden of becoming mediators in order to facilitate the professional…