Название: Uncovering the Germanic Past: Merovingian Archaeology in France, 1830-1914
Автор: Bonnie Effros
Издательство: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199696713
Год: 2012
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 408
Для сайта: litgu.ru
Размер: 5,5 МБ
Язык: Английский
Uncovering the Germanic Past brings to light an unexpected side-effect of France's nineteenth-century Industrial Revolution. While laying tracks for new rail lines, quarrying for stone, and expanding lands under cultivation, French labourers uncovered bones and artefacts from long-forgotten cemeteries. Although their original owners were unknown, research by a growing number of amateur archaeologists of the bourgeois class determined that these were the graves of Germanic 'warriors', and their work, presented in provincial learned societies across France, documented evidence for significant numbers of Franks, Burgundians, and Visigoths in late Roman Gaul.