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Préhistoire et protohistoire en Algérie au XIXe siècle

Les Significations Du Document Archéologique

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ID3130356
AuthorsNoël Coye (0000-0002-1702-3212, corresponding author)
Year1993
Volume33
Issue129
Pages99-137
Publication date1993-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCahiers d études africaines (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0008-0055 • E-ISSN: 1777-5353
PublisherPERSEE Program (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3406/cea.1993.2075
OpenAlexW2026804710
LanguageFR
Citations received5
References cited2

N. Coye - Prehistory and Protohistory in 19th-Century Algeria: The Significance of Archeological Documents. By the 1850s, pre-and proto-historical research in Algeria had devel-oped. Dépendent for scientific and ideological reasons on French prehistory, this research was based on analogies between European and North African archaeological documents. Scholars who had studied the so-called Celtic monuments in Algeria intended to prove that Celts used to dwell in North Africa. After 1868, when North African megaliths were attributed to the Berbers, discourse, though shifting, was still dominated by the question of the ethnie attribution and European origins of monuments. With regard to the paleolithic period, scholars unsuccessfully tried to discover in Algeria the successive phases of development that G. de Mortillet had identified in France. During the last years of the 19th century, this failure fueled debate about synchronism, a theory based on analogies having to do with morphological similarities. In parallel to prehistorical archaeo-logy, paleoanthropology, hampered by a lack of material, worked out spéculations based on European sources and dominated by an ethnie interprétation of archae-ological and historical data. Nonetheless this research provided information for the methodological revisions wrought in this discipline at the beginning of the 20th century

Ancient history · Archaeology · Celtic languages · Ethnology · Ideology · Megalith · Political science · Politics · Prehistory · Sociology · African Studies and Geopolitics · Anthropology · History · North African History and Literature · Philosophy and Social Theory

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Unique citing works5
Citations per year0,17
Citation span1996 - 2023 (28)
Citation velocityhistorical
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 5

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