Uncovering the Germanic past : Merovingian archaeology in France, 1830-1914

Bonnie Effros brings to light an unexpected side effect of France's 19th century Industrial Revolution. While laying tracks for new rail lines, quarrying for stone, and expanding lands under cultivation, French labourers uncovered bones and artefacts from long-forgotten cemeteries. Although the...

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Effros, Bonnie
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Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Zusammenfassung:
Bonnie Effros brings to light an unexpected side effect of France's 19th century Industrial Revolution. While laying tracks for new rail lines, quarrying for stone, and expanding lands under cultivation, French labourers uncovered bones and artefacts from long-forgotten cemeteries. Although their original owners were unknown, research by a growing number of amateur archaeologists of the bourgeois class determined that these were the graves of Germanic 'warriors', and their work challenged prevailing views in France of the population's exclusively Gallic ancestry.
Umfang:
1 online resource (xxiii, 427 p.) : ill., maps.
Anmerkungen:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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English
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Schriftenreihe:
Oxford studies in the history of archaeology Uncovering the Germanic past
ISBN:
0-19-180488-6
Schlagworte:
Archaeology > History > 19th century > France.
Archaeology and history > History > 19th century > France.
Historiography > History > 19th century > France.
Nationalism > France.
Merovingians.
Regions & Countries - Europe
History & Archaeology
France
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