Describing and Interpreting the Past
Subtitle: European and American Approaches to the Written Record of the Excavation
Publisher: University of Bucharest Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Bucharest, Romania
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9789737378811
Description: Archaeology has an ethic dilemma at its root--quite simply, if excavation is destruction, what, if any, can be its justification? Such a line of thought, with its champions and chastisers, is that even if the excavation physically destroys the site, it compensates for this by re-creating, by means of symbolic models and narratives, the historical sequence whose witness and result was the site itself.--From publisher description.
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS; title: Introduction; title: I.	Why Record Archaeological Excavations; title: II.	A History of Archaeological Recording; title: III.	Recording: Between Interpretation and Description; title: IV.	Archaeology: the Valuable Destruction; title: V.	Computers in Archaeology: Copy/Paste the Past; title: VI.	The Harris Matrix: the Democratization of Stratigraphy; title: VII.	Archaeological Reasoning; title: VIII.	Case Studies: Context Sheets and Other Pro Forma; title: A.1. 	British Systems on British Sites; title: A.2.	British Systems on Classical and Near Eastern Sites; title: B. 	Israeli Systems; title: C.1.	American systems on American Sites; title: C.2.	American Systems on Classical and Near Eastern Sites; title: D. 	Canadian Systems; title: E.1.	German systems in use on sites in Germany; title: E.2.	German systems in use On Classical and Near Eastern sites; title: F. 	French Systems; title: G. 	Italian Systems; title: H. 	Other Systems; title: I. 	Databases; title: J. 	New Avenues of Research; title: IX.	Assessment of Pro Forma Usage on Stratigraphic Excavations; title: X.	Final Word; title: Bibliography; title: List of Figures – Pro Forma in Use on Modern Excavations; title: Figures