HARN: Histories of Archaeology Research Network
HARN OFFICIAL WEBPAGE: http://harngroup.wordpress.com
HARN WELCOMES NEW MEMBERS. If you would like to
If you would like to join our research network, please contact Ulf R. Hansson at HARNgroup@googlemail.com with contact information, academic affiliation and a synopsis of your research interests
The Histories of Archaeology Research Network, HARN, was founded in 2008 by Pamela Jane Smith and is now run by Pamela Jane Smith, Ulf R. Hansson, Julia Roberts, Kathleen Sheppard MacDonald, and Olga Sveshnikova. HARN is an inter-university and interdisciplinary e-mail network which provides an overarching, cross-institutional structure to promote communication and to support shared ideas and innovative new work.
Members attempt to untangle the histories and philosophies of archaeology and reconstruct the lesser-known social, political and intellectual aspects of archaeology's history. HARN participants are investigating previously unexamined archival and primary sources and gathering original oral-historical evidence. They produce innovative, fine-grained descriptions and in-depth historical analyses based on entirely fresh material. The resulting new research is regularly submitted to Antiquity's Project Gallery. An example is Kathleen Sheppard's examination of Flinders Petrie's promotion of 'the solutions eugenics offered to the ills of society' <http://antiquity.ac.uk/projgall/sheppard/>.
HARN now consists of about 130 participants from across the world. New members and all queries are welcomed. For more information please contact HARN at HARNgroup@googlemail.com
Please also visit HARN's blog at http://harngroup.wordpress.com where anyone interested in the history of archaeology can post announcements or comments or initiate discussion.
HARN WELCOMES NEW MEMBERS. If you would like to
If you would like to join our research network, please contact Ulf R. Hansson at HARNgroup@googlemail.com with contact information, academic affiliation and a synopsis of your research interests
The Histories of Archaeology Research Network, HARN, was founded in 2008 by Pamela Jane Smith and is now run by Pamela Jane Smith, Ulf R. Hansson, Julia Roberts, Kathleen Sheppard MacDonald, and Olga Sveshnikova. HARN is an inter-university and interdisciplinary e-mail network which provides an overarching, cross-institutional structure to promote communication and to support shared ideas and innovative new work.
Members attempt to untangle the histories and philosophies of archaeology and reconstruct the lesser-known social, political and intellectual aspects of archaeology's history. HARN participants are investigating previously unexamined archival and primary sources and gathering original oral-historical evidence. They produce innovative, fine-grained descriptions and in-depth historical analyses based on entirely fresh material. The resulting new research is regularly submitted to Antiquity's Project Gallery. An example is Kathleen Sheppard's examination of Flinders Petrie's promotion of 'the solutions eugenics offered to the ills of society' <http://antiquity.ac.uk/projgall/sheppard/>.
HARN now consists of about 130 participants from across the world. New members and all queries are welcomed. For more information please contact HARN at HARNgroup@googlemail.com
Please also visit HARN's blog at http://harngroup.wordpress.com where anyone interested in the history of archaeology can post announcements or comments or initiate discussion.
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The examination of the excavation journals of its discoverer Giuseppe Marchetti Longhi (non-edited notes, drawings, tracings and photos of the years 1928-1937) allows for both the reconstruction of the appearance of the building at its discovery and for the dating of its phases. A careful analysis of this archival material with the help of the successive documents of the adjacent excavations of Guglielmo Gatti (done on 1937-1941) has permitted the reconstruction of the history of the excavation of the building and the identification of the Marchetti Longhi’s excavation pits and of the relative finds.
Moreover, a study of the present state of the monument and a new survey of the structures revealed a bulk of unpublished information, not yet accessible through the journals. On these grounds, it is now possible to offer a scientific reconstruction of the building that impedes the general interpretation as one of the two porticus Minuciae known, and sheds new light on the topic, providing new directions for further research.