Uncovering the Germanic Past: Merovingian Archaeology in France, 1830-1914

by Bonnie Effros

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199696713
• ISBN13: 9780199696710
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 452 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.6" x 8.5"