Ethnoarchaeology

Japanese: ethnoarchaeology
Ethnoarchaeology

...To avoid this, it is necessary to systematically organize each piece of material and compare it as a whole system. In order to systematically collect the ethnographic data necessary for interpreting archaeological materials, a new field called ethnoarchaeology has even been proposed, which aims to study the material culture of modern peoples with the archaeologist's own eyes. Of past human activities, the areas that are easiest to reconstruct from material materials are individual techniques for handling materials, such as how to make pottery or stone tools, and how to cook food. ...

*Some of the terminology that mentions "ethnoarchaeology" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…それを避けるためには,それぞれの資料を体系的に整理し,体系全体として対比することが必要である。考古資料の解釈に必要な民族誌的データを体系的に収集するため,考古学者自身の眼で現生民族の物質文化を研究しようとする土俗考古学ethnoarchaeologyというものさえ提唱されている。過去の人間の活動のなかで,物質資料から最も復原しやすい分野は,土器や石器の作り方,食物の調理法など,物質を取り扱う個々の技術である。…

※「ethnoarchaeology」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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