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Uncovering the Germanic Past - Merovingian Archaeology in France, 1830-1914 (Hardcover)
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Uncovering the Germanic Past - Merovingian Archaeology in France, 1830-1914 (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in the History of Archaeology
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Uncovering the Germanic Past brings to light an unexpected
side-effect of France's nineteenth-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, presented
in provincial learned societies across France, documented evidence
for significant numbers of Franks, Burgundians, and Visigoths in
late Roman Gaul. They thus challenged prevailing views in France of
the population's exclusively Gallic ancestry, contradicting the
influential writings of Parisian historians like Augustin Thierry
and Numa-Denis Fustel de Coulanges. Although some scholars drew on
this material evidence to refine their understanding of the early
ancestors of the French, most ignored, at their peril, inconvenient
finds that challenged the centrality of the ancient Gauls as the
forebears of France. Crossing the boundaries of the fields of
medieval archaeology and history, nineteenth-century French
history, and the history of science, Effros suggests how the slow
progress and professionalization of Merovingian (or early medieval)
archaeology, a sub-discipline in the larger field of national
archaeology in France, was in part a consequence of the undesirable
evidence it brought to light.
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