On taphonomy: collages and collections at the Geiseltalmuseum

Autor:	Ana María Gómez López
Rok vydání:	2019
Předmět:	Taphonomy History 060105 history of science technology & medicine 05 social sciences 0601 history and archaeology 06 humanities and the arts General Medicine 0509 other social sciences 050905 science studies Archaeology
Zdroj:	BJHS Themes. 4:195-214
ISSN:	2056-354X 2058-850X
DOI:	10.1017/bjt.2019.13
Popis:	German palaeontologist Johannes Weigelt (1890–1948) was the first proponent of taphonomy – the study of the decay, burial and fossilization of plants, animals and other organisms across geological time. Thousands of his fossil specimens, many recovered from coal fields in central Germany, are stored within the Geiseltalmuseum – a palaeontological collection at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, founded by Weigelt in 1934. A significant portion of Weigelt's papers and extensive photographic production related to his taphonomic research are also within the museum's holdings. Amidst these documents, museum curator Dr Meinholf Hellmund and I discovered over forty photo-collages attributable to Weigelt. This visual essay exposes the through-lines between Weigelt's unpublished collages and his academic activities on taphonomy, suggesting the museum archive as a site of ideological fault lines crossing concomitant artistic and scientific production.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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