{"title":"什么是考古学?","authors":"Xia Nai","doi":"10.2753/CSA0009-4625200458","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Ancient things are the subject of study of archaeology, but as a scientific discipline, archaeology is a very new field. Its origins, though, are very early because once a society has developed to a certain stage, and once the ideas and consciousness of its members have developed to a certain stage, they generate an interest in their own historical past and in the relics and traces left behind by their ancient ancestors. For all sorts of reasons they collect and investigate ancient objects and traces of ancient life, and some even go further to record their findings and explore their meaning, undertaking specific research on individual items. All this, however, merely foreshadows archaeology; it is not yet what scholastic circles today would call scientific, modern archaeology.","PeriodicalId":330527,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology in China","volume":"208 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1988-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":"{\"title\":\"What Is Archaeology?\",\"authors\":\"Xia Nai\",\"doi\":\"10.2753/CSA0009-4625200458\",\"DOIUrl\":null,\"url\":null,\"abstract\":\"Ancient things are the subject of study of archaeology, but as a scientific discipline, archaeology is a very new field. Its origins, though, are very early because once a society has developed to a certain stage, and once the ideas and consciousness of its members have developed to a certain stage, they generate an interest in their own historical past and in the relics and traces left behind by their ancient ancestors. For all sorts of reasons they collect and investigate ancient objects and traces of ancient life, and some even go further to record their findings and explore their meaning, undertaking specific research on individual items. All this, however, merely foreshadows archaeology; it is not yet what scholastic circles today would call scientific, modern archaeology.\",\"PeriodicalId\":330527,\"journal\":{\"name\":\"Anthropology in China\",\"volume\":\"208 1\",\"pages\":\"0\"},\"PeriodicalIF\":0.0000,\"publicationDate\":\"1988-07-01\",\"publicationTypes\":\"Journal Article\",\"fieldsOfStudy\":null,\"isOpenAccess\":false,\"openAccessPdf\":\"\",\"citationCount\":\"0\",\"resultStr\":null,\"platform\":\"Semanticscholar\",\"paperid\":null,\"PeriodicalName\":\"Anthropology in China\",\"FirstCategoryId\":\"1085\",\"ListUrlMain\":\"https://doi.org/10.2753/CSA0009-4625200458\",\"RegionNum\":0,\"RegionCategory\":null,\"ArticlePicture\":[],\"TitleCN\":null,\"AbstractTextCN\":null,\"PMCID\":null,\"EPubDate\":\"\",\"PubModel\":\"\",\"JCR\":\"\",\"JCRName\":\"\",\"Score\":null,\"Total\":0}","platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Anthropology in China","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.2753/CSA0009-4625200458","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
Ancient things are the subject of study of archaeology, but as a scientific discipline, archaeology is a very new field. Its origins, though, are very early because once a society has developed to a certain stage, and once the ideas and consciousness of its members have developed to a certain stage, they generate an interest in their own historical past and in the relics and traces left behind by their ancient ancestors. For all sorts of reasons they collect and investigate ancient objects and traces of ancient life, and some even go further to record their findings and explore their meaning, undertaking specific research on individual items. All this, however, merely foreshadows archaeology; it is not yet what scholastic circles today would call scientific, modern archaeology.