Excavation as a ground of archaeological knowledge
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2131086 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Matt Edgeworth (0000-0002-9375-0753, University of Leicester, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 44-46 |
| Publication date | 2011-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Archaeological Dialogues (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1380-2038 • E-ISSN: 1478-2294 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1380203811000109 |
| OpenAlex | W2050504748 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 17 |
In answering the question 'why excavate?', much of the discussion in this stimulating session was pitched at the level of managerial considerations (in commercial archaeology) or the pros and cons of excavation for the discipline as a whole (in academic archaeology), with some attention paid to issues of publication. While acknowledging the great importance of that debate, and the many interesting points put forward, I would like to suggest that excavation also has significance for archaeologists on a much deeper, existential, level
Archaeology · Common ground · Epistemology · Excavation · Existentialism · Historical archaeology · Sociology · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Computer Science · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · History · Philosophy · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
Archaeology. A career in ruins
Art and archaeology. A modern allegory
Reuniting orphaned cargoes
Geoarchaeosites for Heritage Tourism Product of Kuala Muda District, Kedah, Malaysia
The Post-excavation Analysis and Archiving of Outputs from Complex, Multi-period Landscape Investigations
Feeling Forward into the Past
The lost art of stratigraphy? A consideration of excavation strategies in Australian indigenous archaeology
Choreographies of Making Archaeological Data
Storage Wars
Perceptions Versus Reality
Theorizing Backdirt
Single-Context Recording, Field Interpretation and Reflexivity
Reply to Comments from Åsa Berggren, Alfredo González-Ruibal, Tim Ingold, Gavin Lucas, Robin Skeates and Christopher Witmore
Vagueness and Archaeological Interpretation
Whither archaeologists? Continuing challenges to field practice
Curation as research. A case study in orphaned and underreported archaeological collections
Archaeologies 'now'. Creative interventions in the present for the future
| Citations per year | 1.13 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2011 - 2024 (14) |
| Highly cited | No |