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Heroic Networks: Museum Objects and the ‘Heroic Age’ of Antarctic Exploration (2023)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Pre-Recorded Video Presentation Things and the Global Antarctica", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Popular interest in figures like Captain Robert Falcon Scott and Sir Ernest Shackleton can mean that museum collections relating to the Heroic Age of Antarctic exploration (broadly categorised as the late 19th – early 20th century) risk representing explorers as working alone to achieve heroic feats. In reality,...