Where Have All the Collections Gone? Mexican Archaeology in World Museums

Author(s): Adam Sellen

Year: 2018

Summary

In the second half of the nineteenth century, before the era of professional archaeology, those interested in the evidence of the past collected, and on an unprecedented scale. Most of these massive holdings have been since acquired by public museums around the world, where they have been co-mingled with other collections, and in the process, objects have been severed from their historic moorings. Focusing on Mexican collections, this talk looks back on a decade of work in museums and archives to recuperate a dispersed archaeological record, presenting an overview of the evidence and the lessons learned from its analysis.

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Where Have All the Collections Gone? Mexican Archaeology in World Museums. Adam Sellen. Presented at The 82nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Washington, DC. 2018 ( tDAR id: 444589)

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min long: -107.271; min lat: 12.383 ; max long: -86.353; max lat: 23.08 ;

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Abstract Id(s): 21374