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Why Do We Need a European Association of Archaeologists?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 January 2017

Michael Rowlands
Michael Rowlands*
Affiliation:
Anthropology Dept, University College London, Gower Street, London WC7E 6BT, Great Britain
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Such a question would never have bothered an earlier generation of archaeologists and culture historians. In 1929 at University College London, Professor W. M. Dixon gave a series of public lectures on the distinctiveness of the English. In his lectures variously entitled The English Character, the English Soul, Shakespeare the Englishman etc., he described the generic ‘Englishman’ and his ‘genius’ and in his analysis he literally discovered that the talent of English individualism increased with degree of cultural hybridity (Dixon 1938:108):

The predominantly Saxon districts, Middlesex, Surrey, Sussex and Berkshire stand low on the list of talent, comparing very unfavourably in this respect with Dorset and Somerset in the West, Buckinghamshire to the north and Kent, Norfolk and Suffolk to the East. We observe then that in the regions where the component elements are most numerous, where there is most mixed blood, the greatest ethnic complexity, genius or ability most frequently appears.

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Journal of European Archaeology , Volume 2 , Issue 2 , Autumn 1994 , pp. 175 - 178
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Copyright © European Association of Archaeologists 

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