Trends in archive archaeology : current research on archival material from fieldwork and its implications for archaeological practice / edited by Jon M. Frey and Rubina Raja.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Frey, Jon M., editor.

Raja, Rubina, 1975- editor.

Series:

Archive archaeology ; volume 5.

Archive archaeology ; volume 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Archaeology--Archival resources.

Archaeology.

Archaeology--Methodology.

archaeology.

Physical Description:

xi, 166 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, maps, portraits ; 28 cm.

Other Title:

Current research on archival material from fieldwork and its implications for archaeological practice

Place of Publication:

Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2024]

Summary:

"Archive archaeology has, in recent years, become increasingly acknowledged as an important component of archaeological research. However, the vast amounts of empirical data contained in such archives -- among them fieldwork diaries, working notebooks, finds sheets, and photographs -- together with a sense that the field is often skewed towards 'one's own data', have made it difficult to develop a clear methodological approach that fits all eventualities. The result is that archive archaeology is still not always recognized for what it can bring to the discipline of archaeology, as a field of study that focuses on the contexts within which humanity developed. This volume draws together contributions from scholars who work with archives in a variety of capacities: as fieldwork directors of decades-long excavations; as archivists interested in the history of collections; as specialists focusing on certain object groups or regions; and as researchers broadly interested in what archival material brings to the table in terms of new knowledge about archaeological situations. In showcasing contributions of work in progress, the chapters published here bring to the fore knowledge about archives that has long been overlooked, and examine how archival archaeology should be shaped in the future so that it can become more firmly integrated within archaeological practice."--Page 4 of cover.

Contents:

Trends and directions in archive archaeology : an introduction / Jon M. Frey and Rubina Raja

What's in a name? The role of digital gazetteers for postcolonial legacy archaeology / Anne Hunnell Chen

Digitization as interpretation : cautions for archival archaeology from artefact photography / Elizabeth Knott

Archives and curatorial work at the Davis Museum / Nicole Berlin

Photocorinthia : the contingency of archaeological photography in the Corinth excavation archives / Peter Anthony Thompson

Archive archaeology and critical disciplinary histories : a case study on the origins of the University of Cincinnati Expedition to the Troad (1932-1938) / Jacob M. Engstrom

Old digs, unfinished business, digitization, and new data : the Committee for the Investigation of Antioch-on-the-Orontes (CIAO) / Andrea U. de Giorgi [and five others]

The archival archaeology of archaeologists : the West Cemetery at Isthmia, 1967-1990 / Ulrike Krotscheck and Jon M. Frey

Futures for archive archaeology : struggles, successes, and methodologies / Emilia Oddo.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

e-book version

ISBN:

9782503611747

2503611745

OCLC:

1498307048

Publisher Number:

9782503611747