Archaeology in the Global Cold War : Scientific Practices and Political Ideology

Coltofean, Laura (EDT)/ Grunwald, Susanne (EDT)/ Link, Fabian (EDT)

Routledge（2026/08発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 422 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781032753317

Full Description

Archaeology in the Global Cold War explores archaeological practices, theories, and methods, as well as social networks and knowledge circulation in Eastern and Western Europe and beyond during the Cold War (1947-1989).

Drawing on archival sources, published works, and personal recollections, this volume examines archaeology under the Cold War at a broad international scale and from a range of thematic, theoretical, and methodological perspectives. It is structured in five parts. The first examines how political ideology and propaganda shaped archaeological knowledge production. The second explores the relationship between Cold War science policy and archaeological practice. The third analyses the role of institutions and individual actors. Addressing theory and method, the fourth part considers developments such as aerial photography and the work of influential figures. The volume concludes with personal accounts by archaeologists reflecting on their professional experiences, integrating lived experience with broader historical analysis.

This volume is for archaeologists interested in the history of their discipline, historians of science and the humanities, and scholars of contemporary history working on the intellectual history of the Cold War.

Contents

List of Figures

List of contributors

Introduction

Susanne Grunwald, Laura Coltofean, Katja Rösler and Fabian Link

Part I : Archaeology and Political Ideology East, West, South

01.The Archaeology of the Early Middle Ages in Soviet Moldavia: Between Science and Propaganda

Sergiu Musteață

02. Archaeology in the Abyss. Romanian Archaeology during the Cold War

Alexander Rubel

03. In Quest of Statehood. Archaeology and the Polish Post-War Politics of Science and History

Karin Reichenbach

04. Archaeology during the Franco Regime (1939-1975): A Science at the Service of Political Ideology

Francisco Gracia Alonso

Part II: Science policy and regional archaeological traditions

05. Shifting Ground: American Archaeology during the Cold War Years 1945-1989

Bettina Arnold and John D. Richards

06. How the Cold War Coaxed Iranian Archaeology Westward

Kamyar Abdi

07. Soviet Archaeology Through a Western Lens: A Long History of Rapprochements and Estrangements Before and During the Cold War

Ilia Heit

Part III Actors, Institutions and Networks

08. The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Portugal in Transition and

Archaeology

Ana Cristina Martins

09. The Emergence of North Korean Archaeology during the Cold War and the Life of Do Yu-ho

Yoo Yongwook

10. Hungarian Archaeology between 1947 and 1991

Alexandra Anders and László Bartosiewicz

Part IV: Theoretical and Methodological frameworks

11. Aerial Archaeology and the Cold War

Susanne Grunwald

12. Stone Tools for Iron Curtains. André Leroi-Gourhan, Archaeology and Technology during the Cold War

Nathan Schlanger

13. Innovative Archaeological Thought Behind the Iron Curtain

Ludomir R. Lozny

Part V: Personal look back

14. Intellectual Stagnation in Romania as a Vocation: Authority and Tacit Knowledge in an Archaeological Research Tradition

Gheorghe Alexandru Niculescu

15. Archaeology in Yugoslavia during the Cold War, 1945-1989

Judith A. Rasson

16. Archaeology in post-Soviet Kazakhstan (1994-2018)

Claudia Chang and Tamara V. Savelieva

Conclusion: Three Aspects of Archaeology during the Cold War

Susanne Grunwald, Laura Coltofean, Katja Rösler, and Fabian Link

Index