Germany’s ancient pasts: archaeology and historical interpretation since 1700

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Notes

1 Hubert Fehr, Germanen und Romanen im Merowingerreich. Frühgeschichtliche Archäologie zwischen Wissenschaft und Zeitgeschehen, Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde, vol. 68 (Berlin, New York, 2010); Heino Neumayer, Die merowingerzeitlichen Funde aus Frankreich, Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichtliche Bestandskataloge, vol. 8 (Berlin, 2002); Heinrich Beck, Dieter Geuenich and Heiko Steuer, eds., Altertumskunde – Altertumswissenschaft – Kulturwissenschaft. Erträge und Perspektiven nach 40. Jahren Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde, Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde, vol. 77 (Berlin, New York, 2012).

2 Stephen Jay Gould, The Mismeasure of Man (New York, 1981). Bonnie Effros, Merovingian Mortuary Archaeology and the Making of the Early Middle Ages (Berkeley, 2003), pp. 56–60. Bonnie Effros, ‘Contested Origins: French and German Views of a Shared Archaeological Heritage in Lorraine’, in Multiple Antiquities—Multiple Modernities: Ancient History in Nineteenth-Century European Cultures, ed. by Gábor Klaniczay and Michael Werner (Frankfurt, 2011), pp. 305–33.

3 Ulrich Veit, ‘Ethnic Concepts in German Prehistory: A Case Study on the Relationship Between Cultural Identity and Archaeological Objectivity’, in Archaeological Approaches to Cultural Identity, ed. by Steven J. Shennan (London, 1989), pp. 33–56. Ulrich Veit, ‘Gustaf Kossinna and His Concept of a National Archaeology’, in Archaeology, Ideology and Society: The German Experience, ed. by Heinrich Härke, 2nd edn (Frankfurt, 2002), pp. 41–66.

4 Sebastian Brather, ‘Virchow and Kossinna. From the Science-Based Anthropology of Humankind to the Culture-Historical Archaeology of Peoples’, in Archives, Ancestors, Practices. Archaeology in the Light of Its History, ed. by Nathan Schlanger and Jord Nordbladh (New York, 2008), pp. 317–34.