Theme:
2. Archaeological Sciences, Humanities and the Digital era: Bridging the Gaps
Session format:
Regular session
Title:
Old Excavations and Finds, New Data and Interpretations: The Use of Archives in Current Archaeological Research Projects
Content:
The history of archaeology is a growing field of investigations which provides a range of studies and insights based on rigorous historical methodologies, drawing on archival materials, and organised into a veritable community with its research programs and widespread publications.
Besides providing new knowledge on the practices and theories of archaeology worldwide, these empirical (archive-based) investigations have also focused attention on the production, conservation, dissemination and re-use of a range of documents produced by past archaeologists in the course of their excavation or collection activities. In turn, this has generated renewed interest in the archives of archaeology, be it in order to better understand the scientific, cultural and social implications of the discipline, or to make practical use of archival materials as a source of evidence and interpretations about the past.
This session aims to address both these conceptual and pragmatic dimensions of the archives-based history of archaeology. Contributors are invited to address issues such as:
1) the scientific use of archival information: how, in our age of open science and (digital) data-reuse, are the results of past research integrated in the current production of knowledge?
2) the organisation of archive-based research projects: who leads such projects, and what division of labour between archaeologists, historians or archivists are at stake?
3) publication policy: to which audiences (scientific, laypeople) and in what publications are presented the results of projects combining new and old archaeological data?
More generally, we welcome papers addressing broader methodological or theoretical issues concerning the use of archives for the history of archaeology.
Keywords:
history of archaeology, history of knowledge, archaeological archives, data management
Session associated with MERC:
no
Session associated with CIfA:
no
Session associated with SAfA:
no
Session associated with CAA:
no
Session associated with DGUF:
no
Session associated with other:
UISPP Commission for the history of archaeology
Main organiser:
Nathan Schlanger (France) 1,2
Co-organisers:
Maddalena Cataldi (Italy) 3
Kerstin Hofmann (Germany) 4
Sébastien Plutniak (France) 5
Chloé Rosner (France) 6,7
Affiliations:
1. Ecole nationale des chartes, Paris
2. UMR Trajectoires - 8215
3. Ecole française de Rome
4. Romano-Germanic Commission of the German Archaeological Institute
5. Citeres Lab, CNRS, Tours
6. Institut national d’histoire de l’art
7. UMR TEMPS 8068
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