Incidental Archaeologists: French Officers and the Rediscovery of Roman North Africa

ISBN-13: 9781501702105 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 396 str.

Bonnie Effros

Opis

In Incidental Archaeologists, Bonnie Effros examines the archaeological contributions of nineteenth-century French military officers, who, raised on classical accounts of warfare and often trained as cartographers, developed an interest in the Roman remains they encountered when commissioned in the colony of Algeria. By linking the study of the...