Archaeologists without boundaries : towards a history of international archaeological congresses (1866-2006) Archéologues sans frontières : pour une histoire des congrès archéologiques innationaux (1866-2006)
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Archaeologists without boundaries : towards a history of international archaeological congresses (1866-2006) = Archéologues sans frontières : pour une histoire des congrès archéologiques innationaux (1866-2006)
(BAR international series, 2046)(Proceedings of the world congress = Actes du congrès mondial, v. 46 ; session C75)
Archaeopress, 2009
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Archéologues sans frontières
Union Internationale des Sciences Préhistoriques et Protohistoriques
International Union for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences, Proceedings of the XV World Congress (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006)
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7 papers which look at the development of archaeology as a discipline through international archaeological congresses. Topics include the first CIAAP congress and the birth of prehistory as a discipline; the work of the 15th CIAAP congress in reinvigorating and reorganizing the discipline after the First World War; the importance of Floris Romer in bringing the 1876 International Congress of Prehistory to Budapest; a reassessment of the CIAAP's significance in Germany; the role of congresses in institutionalizing prehistoric research from 1866-1912; the influence of the natural sciences on the early archaeological congresses; and the communication of the first archaeological discoveries at Cucuteni (1885-89)
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