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International audience ; This paper explores the gradual making and display of Latin American archaeological collections in Spanish national museums, and sets out to understand this process in the framework of the elaboration of national master narratives in Spain about the conquest and colonisation of the Americas. Two institutions in particular will be considered in this analysis: the National Archaeological Museum (Museo Arqueológico Nacional), established in 1867 and the Museum of the Americas (Museo de América), inaugurated in 1965 as an offspring of the former, both located in Madrid. By studying diachronically these museums in their political and intellectual context, I aim to reflect critically on the changing meaning and the growing significance endowed upon Latin American collections in Spain throughout the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries. As this paper sets out to demonstrate, the way these collections were displayed reflects directly the interpretations developed by historians and thinkers on Spain's former role on the American continent, as well as its aspirations in contemporary international relations. 298

International audience ; This paper explores the gradual making and display of Latin American archaeological collections in Spanish national museums, and sets out to understand this process in the framework of the elaboration of national master narratives in Spain about the conquest and colonisation of the Americas. Two institutions in particular will be considered in this analysis: the National Archaeological Museum (Museo Arqueológico Nacional), established in 1867 and the Museum of the Americas (Museo de América), inaugurated in 1965 as an offspring of the former, both located in Madrid. By studying diachronically these museums in their political and intellectual context, I aim to reflect critically on the changing meaning and the growing significance endowed upon Latin American collections in Spain throughout the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries. As this paper sets out to demonstrate, the way these collections were displayed reflects directly the interpretations developed by historians and thinkers on Spain's former role on the American continent, as well as its aspirations in contemporary international relations. 298

The article presents the characteristic of objects from the archaeological collections of the Altai State Museum of Local Lore, associated with the complexes of the northern foothills of Altai in the Scythian-Saka time. The authors carried out the analysis of materials of a number of monuments and justified their assignment to the Bystryanka archaeological culture. The main stages in the history of the formation of a collection of objects from the sites of this community are demonstrated, and the interpretation of the objects is presented, taking into account the accumulated experience of researching synchronous monuments. It has been established that the materials of the works of A.P. Kirshevsky in the Biysk region, finds from a destroyed object near the Novoobinka village, several ceramic items from the third cultural-chronological complex of the Elbanka settlement, as well as fragments of a ceramic vessel discovered during exploratory excavations by V.A. Mogilnikov and B.Kh. Kadikov near the village Surtayka could be correlated with the Bystryanka archaeological culture. Despite the comparative fragmentation, these collections allow us to consider various, including poorly studied, aspects of the history of the population of the northern foothills of Altai at the Scythian-Saka time, and also provide an opportunity to demonstrate their material culture in the framework of exposition and exhibition activities.

This article examines the research potential of archaeological collections gathered in 1949–1951 in southern Afghanistan and currently stored in the United States. Included in these materials is an unpublished archaeological survey from the area south of the modern-day city of Kandahar, as well as assemblages from test excavations at the sites of Deh Morasi Ghundai and Said Qala, which have not been studied. An argument is made for a new study of this material along with a reanalysis of the Shamshir Ghar collection in order to question the paradigm of Afghanistan as only a reflection of other cultures in the ancient world.

Abstract This article presents laboratory studies of the archaeological collection from the Sucuriju site which has been stored for decades at the technical reserve of the Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. These materials result from Mário Simões' investigations at the Urubu River area, in the municipality of Itacoatiara, Amazonas, Brazil, in the late 1970's and 80's. Recently, this region has been hypothesized as a cultural frontier and is considered key to understanding ethnogenetic and cultural interaction processes in late pre-Columbian times. The reassessment of this old collection, which remained untouched for over 20 years, yielded unprecedented osteological (dental) data for the site. The new analysis of Sucuriju ceramics enabled a better understanding of the local ceramic complexes. We highlight the need for integration between past and current research in this region in order to improve archaeological data both at local and regional scales.