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Archaeology in a Middle Country

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In an effort to join the circles of European prehistorians, scholars in the early twentieth century Czechoslovakia had to make their work known, recognized, and comparable. The question I wish to pose is what strategies – narrative, political, institutional – did they use to achieve that goal? Which networks were deemed as crucial and central to the effort of establishing a new field in a newly formed country? What language was the lingua franca for archaeologists of the day? And finally how did those networks, languages, and citation practices change over the twentieth century?

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     All translations from Czech, French, and German are by the author unless otherwise noted.

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Tomášková, S. (2011). Archaeology in a Middle Country. In: Lozny, L. (eds) Comparative Archaeologies. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8225-4_9

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