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> those who used dynamite were treasure hunters, for example, not archaeologists. This is actually not completely true. Heinrich Schliemann, for example, was w
by elvinyung 9y ago
> those who used dynamite were treasure hunters, for example, not archaeologists.
This is actually not completely true. Heinrich Schliemann, for example, was widely known and criticized for destroying the ruins of Troy at Hisarlik with dynamite.
- masklinn 9y agoSchliemann's case is not that simple, Calvert and Schliemann's work happened before Sir Mortimer Wheeler, Tessa Wheeler and their student Kathleen Kenyon transformed it from amateur antiquarianism to the systematic professional research field we now know. As Stuart Piggott later noted "Wheeler was looking for a professional job [in Archaeology] where the profession had yet to be created".