Guest Editor’s Introduction: Alternative Approaches in the Korean Archaeology

IF 0.2 Q2 HISTORY
Yongwook Yoo
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Archaeology has played a significant role in reconstructing and formulating Korean prehistory and history since it emerged as a subdiscipline of history and anthropology in the early twentieth century. Due to its unique methodology of discovering material records and deciphering their meanings and context, archaeology has identified itself either as a pure classical humanities approach or a new scientific approach to the past. In either case, the glaring deficiency in Korean archaeology is lack of dialogue among researchers. As a modern independent discipline distinguished from conventional historiographic research, Korean archaeology should be devoid of positivistic claims because actors and actions of the past are not to be clearly imprinted on the material data or artifact assemblages, archaeologically. With actors and actions unclarified, the narrative can’t be constituted; archaeological knowledge and its descriptive phrases always tend to be segmentary because past events cannot but be restored as “ownerless.”
特邀编者简介:韩国考古学的另类研究方法
自20世纪初作为历史学和人类学的一个分支学科出现以来,考古学在重建和形成韩国史前史和历史方面发挥了重要作用。由于其发现材料记录并破译其意义和背景的独特方法,考古学已经将自己定位为一种纯粹的古典人文方法或一种新的科学方法。不管是哪种情况,韩国考古学的最大缺陷是研究人员之间缺乏对话。作为一门与传统史学研究不同的现代独立学科,韩国考古学应该缺乏实证主义的主张,因为过去的行动者和行动不应该被考古学地清晰地印在材料数据或人工制品组合上。演员和行动不明确,就无法构成叙事;考古知识和它的描述性短语往往是片断的,因为过去的事件只能被还原为“无主”。
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