S2A



S2A

Room 2.103

Digging into the archives: new perspectives on documentary legacies in the history of archaeology / Explorer les archives : nouvelles perspectives sur les héritages documentaires dans l’histoire de l’archéologie

Session organizers: Margarita Díaz-Andreu, Ana Cristina Martins, Fedra A. Pizzato, Jorge del Reguero

S2A, Tue Sep 1 2026, 9:00 - 18:00, Room 2.103

9:00-9:20 - Introduction to the session “Digging into the archives: new perspectives on documentary legacies in the history of archaeology” / Díaz-Andreu, del Reguero & Pizzato

9:20-9:40 - From Canvas to Cave: Eugen Bracht’s 1879 Excavation at the “Buchenloch” cave (Eifel Region) / Jost Mergen

9:40-10:00 - Digging into the archives: new perspectives on documentary legacies in the history of archaeology / Rini, David

10:00-10:20 - The Archaeological Documentation Of Aureliano Ibarra Manzoni (1834–1890) And Knowledge About Ancient Roman Ilici / Santiago Olcina-Lagos

10:20-10:40 - The General Archive of the Administration and Spanish Archaeology in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries / Miguel Egido, Jordi Pérez & Mariano Rodríguez

10:40-11:00 - Research on Prague Castle as part of the formation of Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic in the 20th century / Jana Maříková-Kubková

11:00 – 11:30 - Coffee break

11:30-11:50 - The archive of Alfred Louis Delattre. A cornerstone for Mediterranean archaeology of 19th-20th century / Chiara Cecalupo

11:50-12:10 - The Excavations of Byron Khun de Prorok in Carthage (1922-1925): Dilettantes and Professionals in the Tophet through Archival Information / Jorge García Sánchez

12:10-12:30 - Excavating Museum Drawers: Archaeological Ephemera as a Resource in the History of Archaeology / Randisi, Lisa

12:30-12:50 - Archival Sources on Workers in German and Austrian Excavations in Egypt, 1890s-1930 / Maximilian Georg

12:50-13:10 - Digging In The Archive: Reassessing The Blegen Excavations At Troy Through Legacy Data / Nicole Correa da Silva e Vargas

13:10-13:30 - Re-excavating the Trenches at the Bronze Age Site of Chanhu-daro, Sindh Province, Pakistan / Heidi J. Miller

13:30-14:30 - Lunch

14:30-14:50 - Writing a History of Saxonian Archaeology Museums. Challenges and Opportunities / Schachtmann, Judith

14:50-15:10 - Two ‘lost’ Upper Paleolithic sites of El-Quseir and Masaraq an Na’aj – the Archival Perspective / Marder Ofer, Lotan Edeltin & Sveta Matskevich 

15:10-15:30 - Completing the Archival Record: Osteological Evidence Rediscovered through Old Boxes. The Postmeroitic Cemetery of Mirmad, Sudan / Zurinaga Fernández-Toribio, Salomé; Prado Blanco, Daniela; Gómez Viñuela, Diego

15:30-15:50 - Unearthing Documentary Legacies: Archival Biographies of Two Early Iron Age Excavations from Central Spain / Alejandra Sánchez-Polo

15:50-16:10 - Archaeology in Greece during the Dictatorship: Snapshots from Mastrokostas's archive / Maria Parthena

16:10-16:30 - Archiving Submergence: Rescue Archaeology and the Documentary Production of Historical Erasure / Dissard, Laurent

16:30-17:00 - Coffee break

17:00-17:20 - Archival Sources on the History of the Soviet Theoretical Archaeology / Sergii Paliienko

17:20-17:40 - Archives as Gateways of the Past: Re-Examining the Archaeology of Porac, Pampanga, Philippines / Rhayan Gatbonton Melendres

17:40-18:00 - DISCUSSION