THEORETICAL UNDERPINNINGS OF PORTUGUESE ARCHAEOLOGY IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

PORTUGUESE ARCHAEOLOGY IN THE 1900S Throughout the twentieth century Portuguese archaeology has clearly reflected the country’s peripheral and dependent situation in relation to the major ‘producers’ of scientific culture in Western Europe, especially France, but also Germany, the United Kingdom, and even neighbouring Spain. Despite the great effort at renovation since the late 1970s on the part of a college-educated generation (whose studies were usually completed abroad or supervised mainly by French or German researchers), archaeologists are still confronted by considerable misunderstanding from the public, and almost unbelievable indifference from most of the government towards this area of heritage and research.