Flinders Petrie
A Life in Archaeology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2573335 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Barbara Adams (0009-0006-3736-7895) |
| Year | 1986 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 352 |
| Publication date | 1986-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | Flinders Petrie: A Life in Archaeology, Margaret S Drower, 1985 |
| Venue | Man (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0025-1496 • E-ISSN: 2397-2548 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2803171 |
| OpenAlex | W1997502469 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
Flinders Petrie has been called the Father of Modern Egyptology - and indeed he is one of the pioneers of modern archeological methods. Here Margaret S. Drower, a student of Petrie's in the early 1930s, traces his life from his boyhood, when he was already a budding scholar, through his stunning career in the deserts of Egypt to his death in Jerusalem at the age of 89. Drower presents Petrie as he was: an enthusiastic eccentric, diligently plunging into the uncharted past of ancient Egypt. She tells not only of his spectacular finds, including the tombs of the first Pharaohs, the earliest alphabetic script, a Homer manuscript, and a collection of painted portraits on mummy cases, but also of Petrie's important contributions to the science of modern archaeology, such as orderly record-keeping of the progress of a dig and the use of pottery sherds in historical dating
Archaeology · Art · Archaeological Research and Protection · Digital and Traditional Archives Management · History · Image Processing and 3D Reconstruction
Hyksos Horses or Hippopotamus Deities?
Arqueología Y Pseudoarqueología
The Biography of a Collection
Painting a (Watercolour) Picture of Flinders Petrie’s Fieldwork at Meidum
Transport and the Land Economy
The Geography, Topography and Land Transport Networks of Egypt
Trade and Transport
Deserts and Military Supply
Introduction
Transport Animals and Wagons
Animal Requisition
Animal Use and Maintenance
State Grain Transport
Animal Trade and Ownership
State Control of Animal Ownership
Testing the Canon of Ancient near Eastern Art and Archaeology
Petrie, William Matthew Flinders
Reclaiming the Archive
Representing Mandatory Palestine
Dig a Bit Deeper
Antiquarism of the Bosnia and Herzegovina from the Ottoman Period Antiquaries between East and West
Archaeologists-in-Training
Between Spectacle and Science
Sudan and the Petrie Museum
A Selection of News from the Institute
A First Dynasty Egyptian wine jar with a potmark in the collection of the Australian Institute of Archaeology
Searching for the potters behind the pots
William Flinders Petrie and the Egyptology Collection at the Manchester Museum, England
Clines and clusters versus “Race
Telling Times
Encounters with the Archaeological Archive
Excavating the Archive / Archiving the Excavation
Dig Houses, Dwelling, and Knowledge Production in Archaeology
Appropriation and Its Consequences
Recovery and loss
Misunderstanding graphs
Compressed Air Technology in Swedish Archaeology
Commentary
Petrie and the Intriguing Idiosyncrasies of Racism
We Seem to be Working in the Same Line’
Visualising archaeology
Flinders Petrie and the Curation of Heads
A Tale of Two Yusifs
Flinders Petrie Through Word and Deed
In Search of the “Israeli Method of Excavation”
Edward Henry Palmer’s Early Alphabetic Inscription (Sinai 348)
The Archaeological Heritage of the Jerusalem Protestant Cemetery on Mount Zion
Tell el-‘Ajjul palaces I and II
On heritage pharmacology
Land Transport in Roman Egypt
Stone Circles, Oval Settings and Henges in South-west Wales and Beyond
A selection of minor antiquities
Disassembling archeology, reassembling the modern world
Nagpra Is Forever
Childe and Oxford
| Highly cited | No |
|---|