Nathan Schlanger
Biographic Data
| ID | 293828 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nathan Schlanger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nathan |
| FAMILY NAME | Schlanger |
| SIGNATURE | SCHLANGER N |
| AFFILIATIONS | École Nationale des Chartes |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2029-4929 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 167 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 41 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Negotiating scientific knowledge and heritage values with the history of archaeology
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La technologie de Leroi-Gourhan: Les enchevêtrements d’un chef de file
André Leroi-Gourhan est justement reconnu comme le continuateur de Marcel Mauss et le chef-de-file de la technologie française – entendue comme l’étude des techniques dans les sciences humaines et sociales. Les ressources et les références avec lesquelles il construit sa technologie ne sont cependant pas faciles à élucider. Durant la période qui nous intéresse ici, de la fin des années 1930 au début des années 1950, avant donc que ne s’élabore Le…
Décapages documentaires: André Leroi-Gourhan, une vie et un site
Les biographies de chercheurs et de savants, notamment en sciences humaines et sociales, représentent une littérature aussi vaste que diversifiée, riche d’enseignements factuels et souvent porteuse de leçons édifiantes, conjuguant les aléas des parcours individuels avec les circonstances nécessairement collectives de leurs réceptions et de leurs postérités scientifiques. Pour ce qui est des champs de savoir qui nous concernent, il convient d’ajou…
Quality' Advice from French Preventive Archaeology
In their lucid and thought-provoking paper, Carolina Andersson, Agneta Lagerlf and Eva Skyllberg clearly identify the looming quandary of contemporary archaeology: how can we promote our professional concerns with scientific and patrimonial 'quality' in a context increasingly dominated by (often short-term) economic and political considerations? Almost twenty years have passed since the Valletta Convention called for the reconciliation of archaeo…
France: Field Method Origins
André Leroi-Gourhan (1911–1986)Nathan Schlanger
Retour aux affaires: Histoire et évolution au nouveau musée de l'Homme
Rouvert enfin en 2015, le nouveau musée de l'Homme invite à une visite critique : la mise en vitrine et la scénographie colorée assurent aux visiteurs une expérience distrayante, mais qu'en est-il du message que le musée entend véhiculer ? Si l'histoire plus que centenaire de l'institution y est bien rappelée, cette section du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle se dédie avant tout à l'évolution de l'espèce humaine, avec son patrimoine génétique…
The Brexit syndrome: Towards a Hostile Historic Environment
International audience
Destruction of Cultural Heritage in 19th-century France: Old Stones versus Modern Identities
Construction and destruction go hand in hand, as we are reminded by Architecture and Conservation Historian, Michael Greenhalgh, in his substantial and thoroughly documented study, but it does not necessarily follow that they are synchronous or calibrated. The development of modern France throughout the 19th-century is a case in point, when urban expansion, infrastructure building and industrialisation also entailed so much demolition and clearan…
Brexit in Betwixt. Some European Conjectures on its Predictability and Implications
Looking at it from a European perspective, Brexit is a looming catastrophe with wide-ranging repercussions, also in the realms of archaeology and heritage management. In addition to its legal consequences for heritage protection, Brexit will have an impact on UK-based EU personnel, in both academic and commercial sectors, and also on funding, when EU sources will no longer be accessible. Whether or not this represents opportunities for Europe is …
What is ‘European Archaeology’? What Should it be
European archaeology’ is an ambiguous and contested rubric. Rooted in the political histories of European archaeology, it potentially unites an academic field and provides a basis for international collaboration and inclusion, but also creates essentialized identities and exclusionary discourses. This discussion article presents a range of views on what European archaeology is, where it comes from, and what it could be
L’archéologie mondiale à l’heure du Japon. Compte rendu du 8e World Archaeology Congress à Kyōto (28/08-2/09/2016)
Un WAC plutôt zen Aux dires des connaisseurs, c’était le plus serein et posé des WAC, dépourvu de ces déchirements hystériques et autres polémiques houleuses dont se nourrit d’ordinaire le petit monde de l’archéologie mondiale. Personne en tout cas n’en est venu aux mains lors de l’assemblée générale du congrès, comme ce fut presque le cas au WAC de New Delhi en 1994, et les déclarations débattues se sont avérées bien plus consensuelles que prévu…
Back in business: History and evolution at the new Musée de l'Homme
The public will not allow us to deal exclusively with things that are facile, amusing, curious, bizarre, passé, things that present no danger, because they concern societies which are either extinct or remote from our own. The public wants studies with conclusions relevant for the present[. . .]let us not be weary of bringing[scientific]facts into the debate. And if our practical conclusions will turn out to be meagre and hardly topical? All the …
Year 5 at Fukushima: A 'Disaster-Led' Archaeology of the Contemporary Future
If not for you'. The nation state as an archaeological context
Rather than being bashed around in view of its contents, the nation state - or at least the 'state' part of this compound term - needs to be cherished for the context it provides. Without the state, instilling regulations, procedures and common purpose, archaeology will not really thrive. This is confirmed through an exemplary case study, namely the seemingly measured and consensual retrenchment of the state occurring in England over the past 25 …
Héroe por un día. Jules Reboux en el crisol de la prehistoria en el Paris de 1860
The historiography of prehistoric archaeology, smoothly leading from the establishment of human antiquity by Boucher de Perthes in the late 1850s to the disciplinary and classificatory framework set up by Gabriel de Mortillet in the 1870s, still leaves considerable gaps in our understanding of the practical and conceptual developments of the field. The forgotten figure of the amateur Jules Reboux, who explored from the mid 1860s to the mid 1870s …
Introduction – L’archéologie en construction: Objets, Images, Dispositions
Si l’archéologie a souvent été associée au sauvetage et à la reconstruction d’irremplaçables témoignages d’un passé révolu, il ne faut pas pourtant oublier qu’elle est aussi une discipline proactive, en mouvement, qui élabore ses propres démarches et problématiques sur la base des matériaux qu’elle dégage et qu’elle se forge. À ce titre, ce numéro des Cahiers de l’École du Louvre consacré à « L’archéologie en construction » s’inscrit dans la droi…
Entering history? Archaeologists as intellectualsà la recherche du temps perdu
Following some comments on the notion of 'public' intellectuals (can they be otherwise?), this brief paper focuses on the intellectual roles that could be played by archaeologists today. Exposure to the media, usually following some spectacular discovery, serves to confirm the romantico-empirical image of the discipline, but should also lead to an engagement with key public debates. Three such debates are indicated: the idea that 'African man has…
La préhistoire des autres: Perspectives archéologiques et anthropologiques
Longtemps, dans les représentations conventionnelles, la préhistoire a été celle de l'Europe occidentale, caractérisée par de l'industrie lithique et des grottes ornées emblématiques. A contrario, les sociétés non occidentales, en particulier les sociétés dites « primitives », sont appréhendées comme étant intemporelles, figées dans le moment de leur découverte. Comment l'anthropologie prend-elle en compte le passé des sociétés dites « tribales »…
Entre la France et l’Angleterre: L’archéologie à l’aune de la crise
La crise économique actuelle nous offre une bonne occasion pour comparer les systèmes archéologiques en France et en Angleterre (à la suite d'une comparaison européenne entreprise en 2010). Si la crise et ses impacts sont bien réels, on sait aussi que l'évocation du mot 'crise' sert de mantra ou d'élément de langage pour favoriser ou retarder diverses décisions économiques ou politiques. Par ailleurs, tant la France que l'Angleterre ont leur trad…
Inventer la préhistoire. Pratiques antiquaires et naturalisations historiographiques
La reine d’Angleterre, c’est bien connu, célèbre chaque année deux anniversaires. L’un, réservé à sa famille et ses proches, a lieu le jour de sa venue au monde, le 21 avril en l’occurrence. L’autre, fêté en grande pompe par ses sujets, se déroule le deuxième ou le troisième week-end de juin – dans l’espoir que le ciel sera alors radieux ou tout au moins clément. Avec Dans l’épaisseur du temps, Arnaud Hurel, Noël Coye et les auteurs des onze chap…
Situations archéologiques, expériences coloniales
Les situations coloniales et archéologiques dont font état les articles assemblés dans ces deux volumes des Nouvelles de l’archéologie sont d’une diversité tout à fait impressionnante. Sans bien évidemment chercher à faire le tour complet de la question, ces contributions nous permettent de mieux cerner quelques-uns des éléments les plus variables et les plus marquants de cette dyade qui nous intéresse tant, colonialisme et archéologie. Depuis un…
Stephen Quirke. Hidden hands: Egyptian workforces in Petrie excavation archives, 1880–1924. x+334 pages, 40 illustrations. 2010. London: Duckworth; 978-0-7156-3904-7 paperback £18
Stephen Quirke. Hidden hands: Egyptian workforces in Petrie excavation archives, 1880–1924. x+334 pages, 40 illustrations. 2010. London: Duckworth; 978-0-7156-3904-7 paperback £18. - Volume 85 Issue 327
Coins to Flint: John Evans and the Numismatic Moment in the History of Archaeology
John Evans was a key actor in the establishment of high human antiquity in 1859, and his pioneering role in launching the study of ancient stone implements is still celebrated today. However, scholars have overlooked the fact that Evans actually forged this contribution by shifting practices and preoccupations from coins to flint, from one well-established antiquarian domain in which he excelled, to another, new and as yet untested, domain. While…
Series in Progress: Antiquities of Nature, Numismatics and Stone Implements in the Emergence of Prehistoric Archaeology
International audience
Understanding Levallois: Lithic Technology and Cognitive Archaeology
The Levallois technique has attracted much ‘cognitive’ attention in the past decades. Many archaeologists argue that both the products and the procedure of this Palaeolithic technique have been clearly predetermined by the prehistoric flintknappers. Attempts have recently been made to challenge this notion of predetermination by reference to raw material and ‘technological’ constraints. The aim of this article is to assess the grounds on which th…
Le fait technique total: La raison pratique et les raisons de la pratique dans l'œuvre de Marcel Mauss
« Mauss », dit Leroi-Gourhan, « chacun le connaît pour soi. » J'ai d'abord lu Mauss dans un souci d'ordre « généalogique », en m'attendant à y trouver des formulations naissantes de ce qui allait devenir, avec Leroi-Gourhan, la chaîne opératoire. En fait, cette lecture m'a permis de découvrir que les conceptions technologiques de Mauss ne sont pas rudimentaires mais, au contraire, cohérentes et riches. D'autre part, ce n'est pas dans le simple pr…
Series in Progress: Antiquities of Nature, Numismatics and Stone Implements in the Emergence of Prehistoric Archaeology
International audience
What is ‘European Archaeology’? What Should it be
European archaeology’ is an ambiguous and contested rubric. Rooted in the political histories of European archaeology, it potentially unites an academic field and provides a basis for international collaboration and inclusion, but also creates essentialized identities and exclusionary discourses. This discussion article presents a range of views on what European archaeology is, where it comes from, and what it could be
Making the past for South Africa's future: The prehistory of Field-Marshal Smuts (1920s-1940s)
Introduction: turns and returnsWhen politicians engage in archaeology, it is convenient for all concerned to say that they 'turn' to it: for both parties, this move confirms that the discipline itself is essentially neutral and independent from extrinsic considerations. Already subject to much suspicion, this comforting conception can be further undermined with the case of Field-Marshal Jan Christiaan Smuts (1870-1950), for half a century South A…
Ancestral Archives: Explorations in the History of Archaeology
Historiographic revelationsBack from his famous visit to Boucher de Perthes in the spring of 1859, John Evans hastened to invite some antiquarians friends in London to examine his finds. The flint implements he had collected with Joseph Prestwich in the undisturbed gravel beds of the Somme valley were indeed. or so ho believed, altogether new in appearance and totally unlike anything known in this country [Evans 1869: 93-4):But while I was waitin…
The Burkitt affair revisited. Colonial implications and identity politics in early South African prehistoric research
The alleged professional misconduct of Cambridge prehistorian Miles Burkitt, over his guided archaeological trip to South Africa in 1927 and the single-authored publication that resulted, has been taken to epitomize colonial relations of expropriation. However, unexploited archival and printed resources show that the affair has far more interesting implications, and that in South Africa of the 1920s and 1930s prehistoric archaeology became someth…
Year 5 at Fukushima: A 'Disaster-Led' Archaeology of the Contemporary Future
Entering history? Archaeologists as intellectualsà la recherche du temps perdu
Following some comments on the notion of 'public' intellectuals (can they be otherwise?), this brief paper focuses on the intellectual roles that could be played by archaeologists today. Exposure to the media, usually following some spectacular discovery, serves to confirm the romantico-empirical image of the discipline, but should also lead to an engagement with key public debates. Three such debates are indicated: the idea that 'African man has…
Coins to Flint: John Evans and the Numismatic Moment in the History of Archaeology
John Evans was a key actor in the establishment of high human antiquity in 1859, and his pioneering role in launching the study of ancient stone implements is still celebrated today. However, scholars have overlooked the fact that Evans actually forged this contribution by shifting practices and preoccupations from coins to flint, from one well-established antiquarian domain in which he excelled, to another, new and as yet untested, domain. While…
Histories of Archaeology: Archives, Ancestors, Practices
A major international conference on the history of archaeology was
The making of a soufflé: Practical Knowledge and Social Senses
Quality' Advice from French Preventive Archaeology
In their lucid and thought-provoking paper, Carolina Andersson, Agneta Lagerlf and Eva Skyllberg clearly identify the looming quandary of contemporary archaeology: how can we promote our professional concerns with scientific and patrimonial 'quality' in a context increasingly dominated by (often short-term) economic and political considerations? Almost twenty years have passed since the Valletta Convention called for the reconciliation of archaeo…
Retour aux affaires: Histoire et évolution au nouveau musée de l'Homme
Rouvert enfin en 2015, le nouveau musée de l'Homme invite à une visite critique : la mise en vitrine et la scénographie colorée assurent aux visiteurs une expérience distrayante, mais qu'en est-il du message que le musée entend véhiculer ? Si l'histoire plus que centenaire de l'institution y est bien rappelée, cette section du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle se dédie avant tout à l'évolution de l'espèce humaine, avec son patrimoine génétique…
The Brexit syndrome: Towards a Hostile Historic Environment
International audience
Back in business: History and evolution at the new Musée de l'Homme
The public will not allow us to deal exclusively with things that are facile, amusing, curious, bizarre, passé, things that present no danger, because they concern societies which are either extinct or remote from our own. The public wants studies with conclusions relevant for the present[. . .]let us not be weary of bringing[scientific]facts into the debate. And if our practical conclusions will turn out to be meagre and hardly topical? All the …
If not for you'. The nation state as an archaeological context
Rather than being bashed around in view of its contents, the nation state - or at least the 'state' part of this compound term - needs to be cherished for the context it provides. Without the state, instilling regulations, procedures and common purpose, archaeology will not really thrive. This is confirmed through an exemplary case study, namely the seemingly measured and consensual retrenchment of the state occurring in England over the past 25 …
The Trials of the Gas Mask An Object of Fumbling
It was during the Gulf War that I discovered the gas mask to be an object. As it became increasingly credible and imminent, the unfathomable menace was crucially rescaled to the toxic potency and dispersal pattern of law-abiding molecules. So it went with the gas mask: the Gulf War transformed it from a vaguely morbid mental image into a facial object of survival. But to be drafted on the nation-wide defensive maelstrom as a life-saving object (a…
Le fait technique total: La raison pratique et les raisons de la pratique dans l'œuvre de Marcel Mauss
« Mauss », dit Leroi-Gourhan, « chacun le connaît pour soi. » J'ai d'abord lu Mauss dans un souci d'ordre « généalogique », en m'attendant à y trouver des formulations naissantes de ce qui allait devenir, avec Leroi-Gourhan, la chaîne opératoire. En fait, cette lecture m'a permis de découvrir que les conceptions technologiques de Mauss ne sont pas rudimentaires mais, au contraire, cohérentes et riches. D'autre part, ce n'est pas dans le simple pr…
The making of a soufflé: Practical Knowledge and Social Senses
Mindful technology: Unleashing the chaîne opératoire for an archaeology of mind
La technologie doit d'abord é vécue, pensée ensuite si le besoin s'en fait encore sentir. André Leroi-Gourhan (1945: 10) Introduction Far from being irremediably incapacitated by the inadequacies of the excavated record, an archaeology of the ancient mind is possible, and quite capable of generating new and interesting knowledge about its subject matter. With their in-depth specialization in the recovery, analysis and interpretation of material c…
The Trials of the Gas Mask An Object of Fumbling
It was during the Gulf War that I discovered the gas mask to be an object. As it became increasingly credible and imminent, the unfathomable menace was crucially rescaled to the toxic potency and dispersal pattern of law-abiding molecules. So it went with the gas mask: the Gulf War transformed it from a vaguely morbid mental image into a facial object of survival. But to be drafted on the nation-wide defensive maelstrom as a life-saving object (a…
Understanding Levallois: Lithic Technology and Cognitive Archaeology
The Levallois technique has attracted much ‘cognitive’ attention in the past decades. Many archaeologists argue that both the products and the procedure of this Palaeolithic technique have been clearly predetermined by the prehistoric flintknappers. Attempts have recently been made to challenge this notion of predetermination by reference to raw material and ‘technological’ constraints. The aim of this article is to assess the grounds on which th…
The Study of Techniques as an Ideological Challenge: Technology, Nation, and Humanity in the Work of Marcel Mauss
Making the past for South Africa's future: The prehistory of Field-Marshal Smuts (1920s-1940s)
Introduction: turns and returnsWhen politicians engage in archaeology, it is convenient for all concerned to say that they 'turn' to it: for both parties, this move confirms that the discipline itself is essentially neutral and independent from extrinsic considerations. Already subject to much suspicion, this comforting conception can be further undermined with the case of Field-Marshal Jan Christiaan Smuts (1870-1950), for half a century South A…
Ancestral Archives: Explorations in the History of Archaeology
Historiographic revelationsBack from his famous visit to Boucher de Perthes in the spring of 1859, John Evans hastened to invite some antiquarians friends in London to examine his finds. The flint implements he had collected with Joseph Prestwich in the undisturbed gravel beds of the Somme valley were indeed. or so ho believed, altogether new in appearance and totally unlike anything known in this country [Evans 1869: 93-4):But while I was waitin…
A feast for the eyes: Celebrating prehistory in the de Mortillet dinners (an iconographic dossier)
Several menus designed as invitations/souvenirs for the de Mortillet dinners from 1898 onwards are presented here as an iconographic dossier to illustrate aspects of prehistoric archaeology. These menus are briefly discussed below, and ten of them are reproduced at appropriate locations throughout this special section (with reference to the present text
Colonial vindications. More on the history of South African prehistoric research
Together with the welcome insights they have brought to the matters at hand, the archaeological dialogues here engaged have certainly made me appreciate where my claims could be modified and my arguments amplified. Since I have already been taxed with a questionable insistence on setting the record straight, and with a penchant for academically coup de poing-ing my way through the archaeological establishment and its established historiography, I…
The Burkitt affair revisited. Colonial implications and identity politics in early South African prehistoric research
The alleged professional misconduct of Cambridge prehistorian Miles Burkitt, over his guided archaeological trip to South Africa in 1927 and the single-authored publication that resulted, has been taken to epitomize colonial relations of expropriation. However, unexploited archival and printed resources show that the affair has far more interesting implications, and that in South Africa of the 1920s and 1930s prehistoric archaeology became someth…
Histories of Archaeology: Archives, Ancestors, Practices
A major international conference on the history of archaeology was
Archives de l’archéologie européenne (Area): Pour une histoire de l’archéologie française
Des archives du sol aux archives hors sol L’engouement pour l’archéologie est une des composantes de la modernité. Depuis la Renaissance, la maîtrise du passé est en Occident une des catégories de l’affirmation de soi, un des signes de la distance sociale autant qu’un outil de gouvernement. Cette prégnance du passé ne se limite pas aux traditions orales ou écrites, elle s’inscrit dans la continuité des habitats, des monuments et des paysages qui …
Du Research Assessment Exercise au système metrics
Jusqu’au coup de théâtre du chancelier Gordon Brown dans son budget du 22 mars 2006, la recherche anglaise semblait s’accommoder relativement bien du mode d’évaluation de ses institutions académiques – le célèbre Research Assessment Exercise. Inauguré en 1986, le Rae a instauré une procédure explicite et formalisée d’évaluation collégiale (peer-review) de la recherche à l’échelle institutionnelle, principalement celle des départements, des instit…
Archives, Ancestors, Practices: Archaeology in the Light of Its History
Logiques individuelles, logiques d’État: Archéologie et sciences coloniales en Afrique subsaharienne d’après les archives du ministère de l’Instruction publique
La présente note s’inscrit dans la continuité d’un numéro précédent des Nouvelles (n° 110, novembre 2007) coordonné par le réseau Area (Archives de l’archéologie européenne) et consacré aux archives et à l’histoire de l’archéologie française, en France et à l’étranger. Les principaux objectifs du réseau Area – encourager la recherche sur l’histoire de l’archéologie, en préserver et valoriser les archives, étudier les rapports entre le développeme…
A Wrap-up of the Area Project
an exercise and experiment in the oral history of archaeology'. Richard Bradley then made a salient point. He reminded the audience that when he came to archaeology as a law student in the 1970s, there were no venues in Britain to meet 'one's own contemporaries, engage in theoretical debate, try out new ideas before a live audience'. Inspired by American social and intellectual influences and the Society of American Archaeology's meetings and by …
Series in Progress: Antiquities of Nature, Numismatics and Stone Implements in the Emergence of Prehistoric Archaeology
International audience
Stephen Quirke. Hidden hands: Egyptian workforces in Petrie excavation archives, 1880–1924. x+334 pages, 40 illustrations. 2010. London: Duckworth; 978-0-7156-3904-7 paperback £18
Stephen Quirke. Hidden hands: Egyptian workforces in Petrie excavation archives, 1880–1924. x+334 pages, 40 illustrations. 2010. London: Duckworth; 978-0-7156-3904-7 paperback £18. - Volume 85 Issue 327
Coins to Flint: John Evans and the Numismatic Moment in the History of Archaeology
John Evans was a key actor in the establishment of high human antiquity in 1859, and his pioneering role in launching the study of ancient stone implements is still celebrated today. However, scholars have overlooked the fact that Evans actually forged this contribution by shifting practices and preoccupations from coins to flint, from one well-established antiquarian domain in which he excelled, to another, new and as yet untested, domain. While…
La préhistoire des autres: Perspectives archéologiques et anthropologiques
Longtemps, dans les représentations conventionnelles, la préhistoire a été celle de l'Europe occidentale, caractérisée par de l'industrie lithique et des grottes ornées emblématiques. A contrario, les sociétés non occidentales, en particulier les sociétés dites « primitives », sont appréhendées comme étant intemporelles, figées dans le moment de leur découverte. Comment l'anthropologie prend-elle en compte le passé des sociétés dites « tribales »…
Entre la France et l’Angleterre: L’archéologie à l’aune de la crise
La crise économique actuelle nous offre une bonne occasion pour comparer les systèmes archéologiques en France et en Angleterre (à la suite d'une comparaison européenne entreprise en 2010). Si la crise et ses impacts sont bien réels, on sait aussi que l'évocation du mot 'crise' sert de mantra ou d'élément de langage pour favoriser ou retarder diverses décisions économiques ou politiques. Par ailleurs, tant la France que l'Angleterre ont leur trad…
Inventer la préhistoire. Pratiques antiquaires et naturalisations historiographiques
La reine d’Angleterre, c’est bien connu, célèbre chaque année deux anniversaires. L’un, réservé à sa famille et ses proches, a lieu le jour de sa venue au monde, le 21 avril en l’occurrence. L’autre, fêté en grande pompe par ses sujets, se déroule le deuxième ou le troisième week-end de juin – dans l’espoir que le ciel sera alors radieux ou tout au moins clément. Avec Dans l’épaisseur du temps, Arnaud Hurel, Noël Coye et les auteurs des onze chap…
Situations archéologiques, expériences coloniales
Les situations coloniales et archéologiques dont font état les articles assemblés dans ces deux volumes des Nouvelles de l’archéologie sont d’une diversité tout à fait impressionnante. Sans bien évidemment chercher à faire le tour complet de la question, ces contributions nous permettent de mieux cerner quelques-uns des éléments les plus variables et les plus marquants de cette dyade qui nous intéresse tant, colonialisme et archéologie. Depuis un…
Entering history? Archaeologists as intellectualsà la recherche du temps perdu
Following some comments on the notion of 'public' intellectuals (can they be otherwise?), this brief paper focuses on the intellectual roles that could be played by archaeologists today. Exposure to the media, usually following some spectacular discovery, serves to confirm the romantico-empirical image of the discipline, but should also lead to an engagement with key public debates. Three such debates are indicated: the idea that 'African man has…
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