Abbildung eines Hochsteingrabs aus: Johann Daniel Major: Bevölckertes Cimbrien/ oder die zwischen der Ost- und West-See gelegene halb-Insel Deutschlandes/ nebst dero Ersten Einwohnern, Plön 1692, S. 43.
Digging, collecting, knowledge - archaeology in its beginnings
Early concepts of the history of man and nature in the pre-modern period. A history of knowledge of archaeology in the early modern period in the context of archaeological objects in early modern collections
Even before the institutional establishment of archaeological disciplines and museum presentations in the modern sense, material relics of the past were unearthed from the ground both accidentally and deliberately. As material manifestations of past eras, they have found their way into aristocratic as well as bourgeois collections and cabinets of art and rarities, have been recontextualised and interpreted in contemporary terms.
The interdisciplinary dissertation project aims to use textual, pictorial and material sources to explore processes of negotiation, transformation and circulation of knowledge in relation to archaeological finds using theoretical and methodological approaches from material culture studies and recent sociology of knowledge, thereby shedding light on the roots of archaeological science in the pre-modern era.
Project activieties and results
Publications
- Kirsten Eppler: Archäologische Bodenfunde und Antiquitäten: Sammlungspraxis, Wahrnehmung und Interpretation, in: Landesmuseum Württemberg (Hg.): Die Kunstkammer der Herzöge von Württemberg. Bestand, Geschichte, Kontext 1, Ulm 2017, S. 249261. Online-Publikation: https://books.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/arthistoricum/reader/download/602/602-17-87258-1-10-20191210.pdf
- Kirsten Eppler: Frühmittelalterliche Bodenfunde, in: Landesmuseum Württemberg (Hg.): Die Kunstkammer der Herzöge von Württemberg. Bestand, Geschichte, Kontext 1, Ulm 2017, S. 292306. Online-Publikation: https://books.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/arthistoricum/reader/download/602/602-17-87261-1-10-20191210.pdf
Project Informations
Institution
Forschungszentrum Gotha
Project participants
Kirsten Eppler, M.A.
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