Abstract
This paper presents the questions and methods that steered our tracking, in the archives, of local employees of the British Mandate Department of Antiquities in Palestine. After reflecting on the causes of a lack of in-depth knowledge of local actors of archaeology in British Mandate Palestine and their near absence from the archives of archaeology, I researched their traces in the records of the British administration of antiquities retained in Jerusalem. The examination of the history of these archives, from their production to their conservation, with particular attention to cataloging and collection practices, enabled the identification of local employees in the management, practice, and displaying of archaeology in the first part of the twentieth century. Consequently, shaping and presenting an archive of subaltern actors of archaeology, this investigation allowed us to measure their contribution to the history of the discipline in Palestine.