Interdisciplinarity and Archaeology: Scientific Interactions in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Archaeology...

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Laura Coltofean-Arizancu Margarita Díaz-Andreu

Interdisciplinarity and Archaeology

Scientific Interactions in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Archaeology

Laura Coltofean-Arizancu, Margarita Díaz-Andreu

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English

Oxbow Books
28 August 2021

European history; Archaeological theory; Archaeological methodology & techniques

The aim of this book is to explore the interdisciplinary relationships between archaeology and other branches of knowledge in Europe and elsewhere. Interdisciplinary cooperation has been essential in the development of archaeology as we know it today, although until now its role and influence have been largely ignored in the histories of the discipline. This book brings to light the processes that led to interdisciplinary relations in archaeology from the 19th to the 20th centuries, with scholarly contributions that offer a critical overview of this complex, dynamic and long-lasting transformative process. This is a pioneering project in the field of the history of archaeology, as it is the first to examine the inclusion into archaeological practice of various disciplines categorised under the umbrella of hard, natural and social sciences, as well as the humanities. This insertion led to ground-breaking interdisciplinary collaborations and, ultimately, to the birth of new branches within archaeology, including, for example, archaeozoology, archaeobotany, geoarchaeology and archaeometallurgy. The authors of this volume include internationally acknowledged scholars of the history of archaeology. Chapters cover a wide range of topics, looking at interdisciplinarity in archaeology at a general level by analysing its relationship with a number of other sciences in specific countries such as Portugal and Italy, to the incorporation of particular disciplines such as geology, palynology and zoology into archaeology using case studies. Several authors focus on the work of influential scholars as starting points for examining the intersection between antiquarianism, archaeology, the natural sciences and numismatics or between archaeology, art history, architecture and natural sciences. Other chapters theorise on the influence of epistemology and philosophy of science and even positivism on archaeological theory and practice. The influence of the army is also discussed in the development of underwater and aerial archaeology.

AUTHORS: Laura Coltofean-Arizancu is a postdoctoral researcher based at the University of Barcelona (Spain) and a former museum curator at the Brukenthal National Museum in Sibiu (Romania, 2012-2018). She has written a biography of the Hungarian female archaeologist Zsófia Torma (1832-1899). Within the history of archaeology, she has especially focused on Hungary and Romania in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, researching topics such as interdisciplinarity, nationalism, female archaeologists, social and academic networks, archaeological knowledge production, transfer and exchange, archaeological photography, and the history of museums and archaeological collections.

Margarita Díaz-Andreu is an ICREA Research Professor at the University of Barcelona (Spain), an institution she joined in 2012 after sixteen years at Durham University (UK). She has been researching the history of archaeology for two decades. Her more than a hundred publications on the history of archaeology have focused on nationalism and imperialism (e.g., A World History of Nineteenth-Century Archaeology, 2007; Archaeology and Nationalism in Europe, edited with Tim Champion in 1996, republished in 2015), gender, interdisciplinarity, archaeological tourism, social networks and geographies of knowledge, either in relation to particular countries, such as Spain and Britain, or to wider geographical areas.

Edited by: Laura Coltofean-Arizancu, Margarita Díaz-Andreu
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 240mm, Width: 170mm,
ISBN: 9781789254662
ISBN 10: 1789254663
Pages: 232
Publication Date: 28 August 2021
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

Laura Coltofean-Arizancu is a postdoctoral researcher based at the University of Barcelona (Spain) and a former museum curator at the Brukenthal National Museum in Sibiu (Romania, 2012-2018). She has written a biography of the Hungarian female archaeologist Zsófia Torma (1832-1899). Within the history of archaeology, she has especially focused on Hungary and Romania in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, researching topics such as interdisciplinarity, nationalism, female archaeologists, social and academic networks, archaeological knowledge production, transfer and exchange, archaeological photography, and the history of museums and archaeological collections. Margarita Díaz-Andreu is an ICREA Research Professor at the University of Barcelona (Spain), an institution she joined in 2012 after sixteen years at Durham University (UK). She has been researching the history of archaeology for two decades. Her more than a hundred publications on the history of archaeology have focused on nationalism and imperialism (e.g., A World History of Nineteenth-Century Archaeology, 2007; Archaeology and Nationalism in Europe, edited with Tim Champion in 1996, republished in 2015), gender, interdisciplinarity, archaeological tourism, social networks and geographies of knowledge, either in relation to particular countries, such as Spain and Britain, or to wider geographical areas.