Discussing archaeology and the nation in six European countries: a discourse analysis

We studied the use of archaeological scholarly knowledge for supporting and promoting national identity by global non-professional communities. The data collection consisted asynchronous online text-based Facebook focus group discussions in Croatia, Cyprus, Finland, Greece, Lithuania, Spain. After, we conducted a qualitative content analysis posts comments collected.Our research's main result is identification framing schemas that communicatively connect personal perception interpretation with existing community on identity. identified, analysed, discussed ten different this article: Uniqueness, Succession, Language, Christianity, Western civilization, Nature, Stranger civilizations, Double identities, National heroes, Future expectations. are interconnected, but application varies countries.