Silk Road on the eve of 20th century

这个重要的遗产项目将探讨考古学和政治如何在20世纪之交的两位着名丝绸之路探险家考古学家Aurel Stein和Sven Hedin的作品中发挥作用。这个原始的调查将超越既定的“探险家，冒险家，保护主义者”的叙述，殖民知识的跨国影响，殖民当局，科学竞争和个人动机的复杂因素。该项目旨在通过采用传记方法来重新评估我们对殖民探险家的理解。它将建立一个重要的个人、官方和公共档案证据网络，以揭示考古工作的长期政治影响，包括遗址挖掘和藏品管理。通过跨学科的方法，它将为我们目前对丝绸之路及其他地区的关键遗产和冲突考古学的理解增添视角。

This critical heritage project will explore how archaeology and politics intersected in, and informed, the works of two prominent Silk Road explorer-archaeologists at the turn of the 20th century, Aurel Stein and Sven Hedin. This original investigation will look beyond the established 'explorer-adventurer-conservationist' narratives to the complex factors of colonial knowledge-making - transnational influences, colonial authorities, scientific competition, and personal motivations. The project aims to reappraise our understanding of the colonial explorer by adopting a biographical methodology. It will build a crucial network of personal, official and public archival evidence to reveal long-term political impacts of archaeological work - including excavation of sites and curation of collections - within heritage studies. With an interdisciplinary approach, it will add perspective to our current understanding of critical heritage and conflict archaeology of the Silk Road and beyond.