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| #2805102 in Books | Princeton Univ Pr | 1996-04-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.75 x6.75 x1.00l, | File type: PDF | 240 pages | ||1 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| New discoveries changed the way we think...|By A Customer|The development of scientific archeology a century ago and the resulting eager, competitive excavations throughout the Middle East had broad intellectual consequences in the United States. Scholars' preconceptions shaped their choices of sites and their interpretation of finds; what they found challenged and gradually ch|From the Back Cover|| |"The author brilliantly captures the characters, institutions, discoveries, and debates that accompanied the social and intellectual history of Near Eastern archaeology in the United States."--C. C. Lamber-Karlovsky, Harvard Universit
From the 1880s through the 1920s a motley collection of American scholars, soldiers of fortune, institutional bureaucrats, and financiers created the academic fields that give us our knowledge of the ancient Near East. Bruce Kuklick's new book begins with the story of the initial adventure of these determined investigators--a twelve-year dig near the Biblical Babylon, at Nippur, conducted at intervals from 1888 through 1900 and bankrolled by the Babylonian Expl...
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