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  • On the international roots of prehistory

  • Marc-Antoine Kaeser
  • Journal:
    Antiquity / Volume 76 / Issue 291 / March 2002
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    02 January 2015, pp. 170-177
    Print publication:
    March 2002

  • Introduction

    In recent years, considerable attention has been dedicated to the involvement of archaeology (and most notably prehistory) with nationalism. The probable causes of this recent fashion1 need not concern 11s here, but the movement itself is ccrtninly welcome, testifying to the reflection of archaeologists on their own practices and those of their predecessors. For historians, this trend is quite welcome insofar as it contributes to a general renaissance of interest in the past of the discipline. However, a more careful examination of this historiography leads us to some caution about its significance.