Histories of Archaeology

Tim Murray is Professor of Archaeology, La Trobe University.Christopher Evans is Executive Director, Cambridge Archaeological Unit, University of Cambridge.

• 1. Introduction: Writing Histories of Archaeology ; 2. Brixham Cave and the Antiquity of Man ; 3. Introduction and Polemic ; 4. Perspectives of a Sentimental Journey: V. Gordon Childe in Australia 1917-1921 ; 5. The Burden of Tribalism: The Social Context of Southern African Iron Age Studies ; 6. Uses of the Past: Archaeology in the Service of the State ; 7. The Past as Propaganda: Totalitarian Archaeology in Nazi Germany ; 8. The History, Philosophy and Sociology of Archaeology: The Case of the Ancient Monuments Protection Act ; 9. The Role of Biography in Writing the History of Archaeology ; 10. 'Our Ancestors the Gauls': Archaeology, Ethnic Nationalism, and the Manipulation of Celtic Identity in Modern Europe ; 11. Archaeology Against the State: Roots of Internationalism ; 12. Kultur and the World War ; 13. Excavating Women: Towards an Engendered History of Archaeology ; 14. Gustaf Kossinna (1858-1931) ; 15. A History of Archaeology in Brazil ; 16. How to Benefit from Received Ideas ; 17. Historiography ; 18. On the International Roots of Prehistory ; 19. Between Antiquarians and Archaeologists - Continuities and Ruptures

This is a fascinating volume... a volume to be read and re-read.