Susanne Grunwald, "Bedenkliche Karten. Bedenkliche Karten. Zur Frage der ‚Westausbreitung der Slawen‘ in der deutschsprachigen archäologischen Kartographie zwischen 1850 und 1950", in: Susanne Grunwald, Kerstin P. Hofmann, Daniel A. Werning and Felix Wiedemann (Eds.), Mapping Ancient Identities. Methodisch-kritische Reflexionen zu Kartierungspraktiken , Berlin: Edition Topoi, 2018, 215–241

Abstract

Mapping in archaeology has been established since the late 19th century. But it was only after the First World War that an alliance between revanchist politics and racial cultural sciences developed new archaeological questions, using maps here as innovative tools. One of these questions addressed the expansion of the Slavic population in Germany in the early Middle Ages. Some comprehensive studies were made from the late 1920s and were analyzed and published during the 1930s.Thereby historical reconstructions of space were mixed with ethnical space utopia and found questionable expression in maps.

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Susanne Grunwald, Kerstin P. Hofmann, Daniel A. Werning and Felix Wiedemann (Eds.), Mapping Ancient Identities. Methodisch-kritische Reflexionen zu Kartierungspraktiken, Berlin: Edition Topoi, 2018