ABSTRACT
Throughout the nineteenth century these ideas would have been considered acceptable by many researchers, and links between nationalist ideologies and scientific research were unproblematic. However, somewhere in the early twentieth century a split developed between the rationalist, academic tradition and the promotion of certain types of archaeology in support of nationalist goals. This has been well documented in Germany and the former Soviet Union, where linguistic ideologues developed theories of the relation between particular language groups and specific types of material culture and were ruthless with those tempted to disagree (Trigger 1989). Nonetheless, evidence is mounting that there is a European-wide tradition of rewriting the past in pursuit of nationalist goals (Diaz-Andreu and Champion 1996).
