Archaeology in the Global Cold War
Description
Archaeology in the Global Cold War explores archaeological practices, theories, and methods, as well as social networks and knowledge circulation in Eastern and Western Europe and beyond during the Cold War (1947-1989).
Drawing on archival sources, published works, and personal recollections, this volume examines archaeology under the Cold War at a broad international scale and from a range of thematic, theoretical, and methodological perspectives. It is structured in five parts. The first examines how political ideology and propaganda shaped archaeological knowledge production. The second explores the relationship between Cold War science policy and archaeological practice. The third analyses the role of institutions and individual actors. Addressing theory and method, the fourth part considers developments such as aerial photography and the work of influential figures. The volume concludes with personal accounts by archaeologists reflecting on their professional experiences, integrating lived experience with broader historical analysis.
This volume is for archaeologists interested in the history of their discipline, historians of science and the humanities, and scholars of contemporary history working on the intellectual history of the Cold War.
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Persons
Laura Coltofean is a historian of archaeology and a member of Research Cluster 5: History of Archaeology at the German Archaeological Institute.
Susanne Grunwald specializes in the history of archaeology and works at Archaeological Heritage Authority in Brandenburg/Germany.
Fabian Link is a historian of science specialized in the history of the humanities and the social sciences in the twentieth century at Goethe-University Frankfurt.
Katja Rösler is a project team member at the Romano-Germanic Commission (Frankfurt) at the German Archaeological Institute.
Content
List of Figures
List of contributors
Introduction
Susanne Grunwald, Laura Coltofean, Katja Rösler and Fabian Link
Part I : Archaeology and Political Ideology East, West, South
01.The Archaeology of the Early Middle Ages in Soviet Moldavia: Between Science and Propaganda
Sergiu Musteä¿
02. Archaeology in the Abyss. Romanian Archaeology during the Cold War
Alexander Rubel
03. In Quest of Statehood. Archaeology and the Polish Post-War Politics of Science and History
Karin Reichenbach
04. Archaeology during the Franco Regime (1939-1975): A Science at the Service of Political Ideology
Francisco Gracia Alonso
Part II: Science policy and regional archaeological traditions
05. Shifting Ground: American Archaeology during the Cold War Years 1945-1989
Bettina Arnold and John D. Richards
06. How the Cold War Coaxed Iranian Archaeology Westward
Kamyar Abdi
07. Soviet Archaeology Through a Western Lens: A Long History of Rapprochements and Estrangements Before and During the Cold War
Ilia Heit
Part III Actors, Institutions and Networks
08. The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Portugal in Transition and
Archaeology
Ana Cristina Martins
09. The Emergence of North Korean Archaeology during the Cold War and the Life of Do Yu-ho
Yoo Yongwook
10. Hungarian Archaeology between 1947 and 1991
Alexandra Anders and László Bartosiewicz
Part IV: Theoretical and Methodological frameworks
11. Aerial Archaeology and the Cold War
Susanne Grunwald
Nathan Schlanger
13. Innovative Archaeological Thought Behind the Iron Curtain
Ludomir R. Lozny
Part V: Personal look back
14. Intellectual Stagnation in Romania as a Vocation: Authority and Tacit Knowledge in an Archaeological Research Tradition
Gheorghe Alexandru Niculescu
15. Archaeology in Yugoslavia during the Cold War, 1945-1989
Judith A. Rasson
16. Archaeology in post-Soviet Kazakhstan (1994-2018)
Claudia Chang and Tamara V. Savelieva
Conclusion: Three Aspects of Archaeology during the Cold War
Susanne Grunwald, Laura Coltofean, Katja Rösler, and Fabian Link
Index