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French archaeology between science and spectacle, 1890-1940
xiii, 264 pages, [9] pages of color plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Delves into two controversies from the French archaeological world to illuminate the tension between the discipline's scientific ambitions and its hunger for media attention. For well over a century, from Heinrich Schliemann's sensational discoveries at Troy in the 1880s, through the Tutankhamun excavations of the 1920s, to the recent LIDAR-aided uncovering of lost Maya cities, archaeology has made headlines. In this new history of archaeology and its archival traces, Daniel J. Sherman treats the friction between science and spectacle as constitutive of the field. By exploring two long-running controversies that roiled the French archaeological world and its wider public in the first third of the twentieth century, he gives the science/media relationship a unique place in the history of archaeology and its present. The first controversy involves a dispute over the conduct of excavations at Carthage in Tunisia, then under French colonial rule. In the second, accusations of forgery clouded what seemed to be a stunning Neolithic find at a hamlet called Glozel, in the Auvergne region in central France. The affair divided the scholarly community and attracted enormous media attention across Europe and North America. Both controversies occurred at a transitional moment between what has been called the heroic age of archaeology, dominated by explorers and adventurers with little specialized training, and the beginnings of its professionalization. As Sherman shows, the two affairs put the methods, procedures and networks of archaeology in the spotlight and profoundly shaped its history.
Introduction: from the archaeological archive -- "For Carthage": scientific networks and the glare of publicity. Prologue: the field and the network ; Serious men (and their archives) ; "To save Carthage": networks, authority, publicity ; Enter the Americans ; Heritage and/as science -- The news from Glozel: scholars, media, and the making of a scandal. The Glozel archive: exit the state ; Exchanging news ; Blame the media ; Fake news/news of fakes ; Affairs to remember ; Coda -- Bodies and minds: the work of archaeology. The archaeologist's police file ; Bodies at/of work ; Looking like an archaeologist -- Reality effects: staging archaeology. Performing Carthage ; Glozel and the performative -- Picturing things: archaeology and the imagined past. What are these objects? ; Who were these people? ; Imagining the Glozelians -- Epilogue. After Bizerte: 1926-1933-1962 ; "Glozel for ever": 1968-1974-2021 ; Objects, knowledge, and the archive: 2022-
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-255) and index.