Texas A & M Univ. Professor Donald B. Dickson

The Structure of Scientific Archaeological Field Methods ; Human Relations Area Files

일시 : 8월 24일(화) 10:30~12:00                  장소 : 강원대학교 박물관 시청각실

강원대학교박물관과 강원문화연구소에서는 8월 24일 미국의 저명한 고고학자를 모시고 특강을 개최하고자 합니다.

Donald B. Dickson 교수는 미국 Texas A & M University 인류학과에 재직하고 있으며, 전 세계에 걸쳐 수많은 현장 조사에 참가한 뛰어난 학자입니다.

특강 주제는 ‘고고학의 과학적 현장 조사 방법’과 ‘HRAF(비교문화자료) 콜렉션’ 두 가지입니다.

‘고고학의 과학적 현장 조사 방법’에 대한 요약은 아래 영문으로 소개합니다.

쉽게 접하기 어려운 좋은 기회이니 바쁘시더라도 왕림하셔서 좋은 대화를 나누시기를 바랍니다.

The Structure of Scientific Archaeological Field Methods :

An archaeological site is simply a place that contains the material remains of past human activity in a natural matrix.  Archaeologists seek to understand the past by excavating these material remains and reconstructing the processes that resulted in their deposition.  But archaeological remains are fully interpretable only  if their relations to the total site from which they are taken have been obtained and recorded.  To do this scientifically, it is necessary to employ detailed, careful, and precise methods.  Scientific archaeologists seek to capture locational,  stratigraphic, positional, contextual, and associational relations in the material they find in their sites.  To do this they use six conventions: the control grid, shovel scrapping, screening, triangulation, datum points, balks and profiles.  Employing these six conventions, they collect seven categories of data: occupational surfaces, structures, features, artifacts, human remains, ecofacts, and various samples.  This, in my view, is what constitutes scientific field methods in archaeology