Some Aspects of the History and Theory of Classical Archaeology
Keywords:
classical archaeology, history of archaeology, nationalism, identities.Abstract
One of the important dimensions of the analyzes of the professional history of science is the critical focus that questions the state of the art, the history and the perspectives of a certain scientific field or a whole discipline. This type of analyses have a very ambitious goal to scrutinize not just the state of the art, the subject of the research and the misconceptions of the wider audience, but the misgivings of the scientific theories and the misconceptions of the scientists themselves. In other worlds, the critical approach to the history and theory of certain scientific field puts into question the motives, clarity and the self-awareness of the scientific mind.
This paper approaches some of the less examined or acknowledged aspects of the development of classical archaeology that influence its
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