Following the Naissance de l’archéologie moderne 1798-1945 (also published by the CNRS), in 1998, Eve Gran Aymerich now provides us with a remarkable work, at the crossroads of archeology and historiography. More than six hundred bio-bibliographical entries, in alphabetical order present the key protagonists in this field with its wide range of disciplines. There are numismatics, archeologists,
... [Show full abstract] pre-historians, travelers, geologists, epigraphists, explorers, painters, draftsmen and architects....