Open AccessArchaeology, Ideology and Society: The German Experience, edited by Heinrich Harke. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main, 2000
Author(s) -
Bruce G. Trigger
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
bulletin of the history of archaeology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2047-6930
pISSN - 1062-4740
DOI - 10.5334/bha.11204
Subject(s) - german , ideology , subject (documents) , history , archaeology , classics , art history , political science , library science , law , politics , computer science
German archaeologists are renowned for two things: their unswervingadherence to a culture-historical paradigm and their refusal to discuss theirdiscipline's past. The overall understanding of the development of European archaeologyhas long been handicapped by the lack of comprehensive, analytical studies of thehistory of German archaeology. Papers focused on specific.issues by archaeologists suchas Leo K1ejn, Bellina Arnold, and U1rich Veit whetted, but did not fully satisfy,foreign interest in this subject