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- Title
The Trace of Stones: Relational Lives of Stone Tools between South Africa and Europe.
- Authors
Sarreiter, Regina
- Abstract
This article examines how a collection of stone tools excavated and classified as prehistorical in 1926 in today's KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa) were made into scientific objects through their relationswith various knowledge systems in South Africa, Germany, Austria and the Vatican. In these places, they became involved in the production of knowledge about themselves and the temporality in which they were located. Thus, through their encounter with a South African archaeologist, they moved into an archaeological narrative that was contemporary with the project to racially hierarchize South African populations, while in the realm of the Catholic influenced Kulturkreislehre, they were supposed to help support a theory about the origin of monotheistic beliefs.
- Subjects
SOUTH Africa; STONE implements; EUROPEAN foreign relations; ARCHAEOLOGISTS; CATHOLICS; INTERNATIONAL relations
- Publication
Geschichte und Gesellschaft, 2019, Vol 45, Issue 3, p382
- ISSN
0340-613X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.13109/gege.2019.45.3.382