Archaeology in a town, a town in archaeology. Selected issues of archaeological research of historical towns

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Data
2012
Autorzy
Rozwałka, Andrzej
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Wydawnictwo
Institute of Archaeology Rzeszów University
Abstrakt
In the introductory article of a volume that presents archaeological and other disciplinary research into a historical town, selected issues are discussed in the framework of the complicated research process required to understand the past of historical towns. This new field of science is facing many methodological and organizational problems. The main theme of this article is that the further development of archaeological explorations of the town requires the definition of terminology, holistic research methods (most of all stratigraphy) and an acceptance of an interdisciplinary canon. Historical archaeology dealing with towns has transformed itself into a specific field of archaeology that uses familiar excavation techniques, but differs from prehistoric archaeology by drawing on sources from other fields like history, town-planning, architecture, cultural anthropology and with its own descriptive language of past times.
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Research Subject Categories::HUMANITIES and RELIGION::History and philosophy subjects::Archaeology subjects::Archaeology , Research Subject Categories::HUMANITIES and RELIGION::History and philosophy subjects::Archaeology subjects::Archaeology, medieval , historical archaeology , urban archaeology , terminology , methodology of archaeological research
Cytowanie
Rozwałka, A., 2012. Archaeology in a town, a town in archaeology. Selected issues of archaeological research of historical towns. Analecta Archaeologica Ressoviensia 7, 13–24.