12 July 2022, 9:30 – 16:30 (GMT-3)
Auditorio de la Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo, UNLP
Calles 122 y 60, s/n (1900) La Plata, Argentina
How to get there: https://www.fcnym.unlp.edu.ar/uploads/docs/como_llegar_a_fcnym_unlp.pdf
Follow the workshop on You Tube : https://youtu.be/hLt4a3taVY0
The demand for fossil bones and antiquities triggered new activities linked to their replication. Fakes, casts, and duplicates, or fanciful reproductions, circulated in parallel with their originals.
Fakes and forgeries – While casts and duplicates originated mostly from the museum workshops, fakes invaded the market and were introduced into the collections. Today, those objects are kept in the museums, and there is a growing interest in analyzing and tracing the fakes kept all over the world.
Casts – The workshop will focus on the casts of prehistoric artefacts, anthropology and paleontology specimens, objects that were very popular in the trade of “natural objects”. Duplicates and “casts” of fruits may be also analyzed.
This workshop will also deal with the economic dimension of natural history and anthropological collections and the interrelationship between commercial and scientific value. In the case of antiquities and paleontology, we suggest to analyze how what was considered rubbish/garbage was transformed into something valuable for both scientists and the local people involved in collecting. The workshop will trace less known collections existing in provincial Europe and the agents involved in that trade on an interregional, European and transcontinental scale. It will focus on:
Fossil bones on the move: Fossil mammal collections from South America circulated in the 19th century as objects of commerce and evidence of the new theories on the history of life.
Trade in Antiquities: Mexican and Peruvian antiquities and prehistoric artefacts circulated in the 19th century and became new objects of commerce and collection, as well as archaeological evidence.
This workshop is part of the EU-funded project Scientific Collections on the Move: Provincial Museums, Archives, and Collecting Practices (1850–1950)
9:30 Nathalie Richard (Le Mans Université, TEMOS CNRS UMR
9016) & Irina Podgorny (CONICET/Museo de La Plata).
Welcome and Introduction
9:45 Isabel Bonora Andújar (Musée d’Archéologie Nationale, Saint-
Germain-en-Laye, FR): “The unknown collections of the
National Archaeology Museum and the birth of archaeology in
France”
10:45 Coffee break
11:00 Géraldine Delley (Laténium, Parc et musée d’archéologie,
Hauterive, Switzerland): “Circulating casts – some examples from
La Tène”
11:30 Olivier Vayron (Centre André Chastel, Sorbonne Université,
Paris, FR): “Artifacts or natural specimens? The animal life casts
of the Paris Muséum”
12:00 General comments, Q&A
12:30 Working lunch followed by…
13:00 Poster session – SciCoMove Training Session
14:45 Richard Fariña (Universidad de la República, Montevideo, UR):
“A collection with old marked bones: the debates on the
megafauna in the Arroyo del Vizcaíno site”
15:15 Marina Sardi (Museo de La Plata/CONICET, AR): “Faces on the
move: From Oceania, to display, to oblivion”
15:45 Ilja Nieuwland (Athena Institute, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam,
The Netherlands): “Iguanodon, Dippy and Cultural Diplomacy
through Cast Donations, 1882-1934”
Discussion and concluding remarks
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Nathalie Richard (July 5, 2022). Workshop SciCoMove: “Casts, bones and forgeries” SciCoMove — Scientific Collections on the Move. Retrieved April 28, 2025 from https://doi.org/10.58079/twsu