The Glastonbury Lake Village

Models and Source Criticism

Datos Bibliográficos

ID9329039
AutoresJohn C Barrett (0000-0002-1152-370X, autor de correspondencia)
Año1987
Volumen144
Número1
Páginas409-423
Fecha de publicación1987-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaArchaeological Journal (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0066-5983 • E-ISSN: 2373-2288
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00665983.1987.11021208
OpenAlexW2006034005
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas19
Referencias citadas10

The procedures for critically assessing an excavation report are not widely discussed. Using the example of D.L. Clarke's model of the Glastonbury Lake Village, it is argued here that reinterpretation of a report on internal evidence alone is not possible. However in an adequately constructed report it should be possible to evaluate the logic by which observational data are handled, and to place the report within the context of those contemporary expectations within which the excavator worked. By this means the competence of the excavator may be assessed and the report accommodated within a more recently constructed understanding of the past

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Civil engineering · Competence (human resources · Context (archaeology · Criticism · Excavation · Excavator · Political science · Reinterpretation · Archaeological Research and Protection · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Engineering · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology