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Archaeology and Creating Facts on the Ground

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Nationalism and the Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount

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Discusses developments related to heritage manufacturing—particularly via archaeological activity—and the construction of narratives corresponding to respective nationalisms; among other things, these developments have seen a strengthening of ties between the two nationalisms and their respective majority religions.

The original version of this chapter was revised: Final corrections have been incorporated. The erratum to this chapter is available at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49920-8_12

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Freas, E. (2017). Archaeology and Creating Facts on the Ground. In: Nationalism and the Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49920-8_8

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