The rediscovery of Bolivian lowland archaeology in the repositories of the Museo de La Plata. Some results of the Project SciCoMove El redescubrimiento de la arqueología de las tierras bajas bolivianas en los repositorios del Museo de La Plata. Algunos resultados del proyecto SciCoMove
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archives field records archaeology of the Amazon and Mamoré Basins South American LowlandsSujets proches
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Irina Podgorny et al., « The rediscovery of Bolivian lowland archaeology in the repositories of the Museo de La Plata. Some results of the Project SciCoMove », HAL-SHS : archéologie, ID : 10670/1.0gf4v2
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What interest can archives have for contemporary research beyond that which they may arouse among his-torians of science? Partly to answer these questions, in 2019, two of the authors of this paper decided to or-ganize a project on this topic: SciCo-Move (Scientific Collections on the Move), launched in 2021. This essay aims to present some of its results, in particular, on the work and lost archi-ves of Argentine archaeologists Ber-nardo Dougherty (1941-1997) and Ho-racio Calandra, both from the Museo de La Plata, who in the 1980s con-ducted excavations in Beni, Bolivia, of which practically nothing survives: the sherds obtained in that work were crushed to pave roads. Archival work, in this case, demonstrates how it can give new life to a destroyed collection, providing some of the lost data.