Emergency excavation survey

Japanese: 緊急発掘調査 - きんきゅうはっくつちょうさ
Emergency excavation survey

...Administrative excavations are conducted when ruins are threatened by land development activities such as road and housing construction, with the aim of recovering all information that would otherwise be lost by conducting pre-excavation surveys. As such, they are sometimes called emergency excavations, as they are suddenly necessary for reasons not directly related to archaeology. When conducting excavations to solve archaeological problems, the minimum amount of material necessary to achieve the set goal is selected, and only the minimum area is excavated. ...

*Some of the terminology used in reference to "emergency excavation surveys" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…行政発掘調査は,道路や住宅の建設など各種の国土開発行為によって遺跡が破壊される事態が生じたとき,事前に発掘調査することによって,失われるすべての情報をその遺跡から回収することを目的として実施されるものである。したがって,考古学とは直接関係のない原因によって突発的に実施する必要が生じたものであり,そこから緊急発掘調査と呼ばれることもある。考古学の問題解決のための発掘調査の場合,設定した目標達成に必要な最低限の部分を選び,最小面積を発掘調査するにとどめる。…

※「緊急発掘調査」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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