On the borders of archaeology knowledge
Channel: European Association of Archaeologists
Date: 2018-08-14

The word “archaeology” could be mentioned in the lot of different contemporary contexts: “community”, “museum”, “Egyptian” and etc. The main question there is: why people interests in the archaeological heritage objects, artefacts, information or knowledge? This question could be investigated on the basis of theoretical considerations on Yuri Lotman semiosphere theory and knowledge management cycle models. Yuri Lotman semiosphere theory help to describes the connections between relative centre and the peripheries (as sign structures) of scholar archaeology. The centre may be defined by ["canonical"] scientific paradigms prevailing within a given time moment in scholar archaeology.
Periphery, in this case is the creolization space in which (usually through interactions with other culturally more distant sign structures) appear various archaeology-interested communities. Knowledge management cycle models there help us to describe the interests of “outside archaeology” communities to archaeology via concept of “knowledge needs” and to investigate the process of using / re-using of archaeological knowledge via another stages / concepts of cycle model. On these considerations we can pattern and research the set of creolised areas of reality, where archaeological data, information, knowledge and heritage are used and reused in creation of new objects of reality (in meanings of CIDOC-CRM as “Thing”). This modelling pattern will presented at conference paper.

Author: Laužikas, Rimvydas - Vilnius University Faculty of Communication (Presenting author)