Hidden Hands: Egyptian Workforces in Petrie Excavation Archives, 1880-1924

by Stephen Quirke

Despite major movements for change, in practice archaeologists still pursue the past to the exclusion of the present inhabitants of archaeological landscapes. Archaeological archives hold a key to the formation of archaeology as a separate study, but they may be overlooked in current debates on ethics in archaeology and anthropology. This study focuses on the great archive that records the work of Flinders Petrie in Egypt, first in 1880-1882 under...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0715639048
• ISBN13: 9780715639047
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"