32400
Vertiefungsseminar
WiSe 18/19: Of Mammoths and the Nation: The Beginnings of American Archeology and Paleontology
Nadja Klopprogge
Kommentar
Working the earth of the plantation of their ‘master’ in the Province of South Carolina, two enslaved Africans, who had survived the horrors of the Middle Passage, unearthed a set of large fossilized teeth in the early 18th century. What they had found and identified came to be known as one of the first discoveries of Mammoth remains on North American soil. By the late 19th century, following the westward expansion of the American frontier, professional and lay fossil hunters as well as archeologists had turned the country’s soil upside down. In search of remnants of the Great Deluge, dinosaurs and American antiquity they have actively shaped the spatial and historical consciousness of the young nation since its independence. Drawing on the theories and methodologies of the history of science and the history of knowledge this seminar will introduce advanced B.A.-level students to the correlation between the ‘digging sciences’ and American colonial, national, and imperial conceptions of land and time in the 18th and 19th century. Schließen
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