Pieces going down, pieces going up and Pompeii’s end: some remarks on the flexible nature of the archaeological record.

Auteurs

  • Astolfo Gomes de Mello Araujo Universidade de São Paulo. Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia. Departamento do Patrimônio Histórico do Município de São Paulo

DOI :

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2448-1750.revmae.1995.109215

Mots-clés :

Vertical movement - Formation processes - Geoarchaeology - Bioturbation - Refitting - Trampling - Use-wear analysis.

Résumé

The vertical movement of cultural materials is, in varying degrees, an ubiquitous phenomenon at archaeological sites. Even so, archaeologists often view the archaeological record as a stable and rigid entity, taking dangerous assumptions implicitly. In this paper, some cases of vertical movement are shown, its many causes and major consequences discussed and some suggestions on how to deal with the problem are presented.

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Biographie de l'auteur

  • Astolfo Gomes de Mello Araujo, Universidade de São Paulo. Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia. Departamento do Patrimônio Histórico do Município de São Paulo
    pós-graduando (douramento) do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia da Universidade de São Paulo.

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Publiée

1995-12-18

Numéro

No 5 (1995)

Rubrique

Artigos

Licence

(c) Copyright Astolfo Gomes de Mello Araujo 1995

Creative Commons License

Ce travail est disponible sous licence Creative Commons Attribution - Pas d'Utilisation Commerciale - Pas de Modification 4.0 International.

Comment citer

ARAUJO, Astolfo Gomes de Mello. Pieces going down, pieces going up and Pompeii’s end: some remarks on the flexible nature of the archaeological record. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, São Paulo, Brasil, n. 5, p. 3–25, 1995. DOI: 10.11606/issn.2448-1750.revmae.1995.109215. Disponível em: https://www.journals.usp.br/revmae/article/view/109215.. Acesso em: 15 mai. 2024.