Incidental Archaeologists: French Officers and the Rediscovery of Roman North Africa

Author/Contributor(s):	Effros, Bonnie
Publisher:	Cornell University Press
Date:	12/15/2021
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

In Incidental Archaeologists, Bonnie Effros examines the archaeological contributions of nineteenth-century French military officers, who, raised on classical accounts of warfare and often trained as cartographers, developed an interest in the Roman remains they encountered when commissioned in the colony of Algeria. By linking the study of the...