Excavating Cities and Archiving Knowledge
Hardback (Forthcoming)
(December 2026)
ISBN: 9782503625188
Price: $194.00
The volume seeks to uncover how current urban archaeological approaches and methodologies have, often unknowingly, been shaped through the re-examination of archival and photographic materials along with archaeological and historical publications.
Western Asia underwent a radical transformation in the early twentieth century: once part of the Ottoman Empire, the region was fragmented along arbitrary lines that disregarded the cultures, traditions, and populations that inhabited it. Archaeologists were not impartial witnesses to this transformation, but rather were agents whose actions influenced how the cities of the region were perceived and understood. Stemming from the Lost Cities Rediscovered project funded by the Gerda Henkel Stiftung, the contributions in this volume take a dual approach to the notion of a ‘lost city’, viewing it simultaneously as a living settlement framed as lost by colonial or occupying powers so that it could be ‘rediscovered’ by their agents, and as an archaeological site rendered lost by the conscious or unconscious disciplinary choices of excavators. Through the re-examination of the archival material left behind by these travellers and archaeologists, the chapters in this volume enable a more nuanced and complex understanding of how the ‘rediscovery’ of these lost cities was shaped.
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Current Research on Archival Material from Fieldwork and its Implications for Archaeological Practice
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Archival Historiographies
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