Giorgio Buccellati, A Critical Theory of Archaeology
Notes to Chapter 9. The physical record

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9.1 Disposition
9.2 Conservation
9.3 Restoration
9.4 Reconstruction
9.5 Storage of movable items
9.6 Curation
9.7 Access
9.8 The site as a book
      9.8.1 Staging the past
      9.8.2 Scholarly concerns


9.1 Disposition

  1. Compare Lucas' notion of excavation as displacement rather than destruction and to the concept of disposition proposed here. [Laerke Recht, September 2014]
  2. Architecture left standing: Jingchen 2006. [Laerke Recht, July 2016]
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9.2 Conservation

  1. Matero 2006, Matero 2008
  2. Montella 2009
  3. Conservation strategy, see Ashurst 2007. - [Laerke Recht, July 2016]
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9.3 Restoration

  1. For the walls see ...; for the perceptual advantage of a vessel resptroaion, see about the iltanni
  2. For the superposition of projected version of a restored image upon the damaged original, see the successful experiment at Chillon ...
  3. For Abu Simbel, see Allais 2013. - [Laerke Recht, March 2016]
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9.4 Reconstruction

  1. An excellent example of a conceptual reconstruction model is the research by Margueron on second stories and on lighting...
  2. Examples of partial reconstruction: London Bridge different reconstr of original
  3. For the upper Paleolithic caves of Lascaux and Altamira see Bahn 2012
  4. An excellent comprehensive website about Chauvet Cave and the cave replica is found at http://archeologie.culture.fr/chauvet/en/
  5. A new replica is under construction at Lascaux (Lascaux 4). Another excellent website (http://www.projet-lascaux.com/en/lascaux-4 illustrates the project, which is due to open to the public in the near future.
  6. Chauvet Cave: James 2016; Cave website. - [Laerke Recht, July 2016]
  7. Considerations of reconstruction: Stone & Planel 1999. - [Laerke Recht, August 2016]
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9.5 Storage of movable items

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9.6 Curation

  1. See e.g. Bennett 2004. - [Laerke Recht, July 2016]
  2. See Jameson & Baugher 2007. - [Laerke Recht, July 2016]
  3. See McManus 2000. - [Laerke Recht, August 2016]
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9.7 Access

  1. On visitors, users and "open archaeology", see World Archaeology 44.4, e.g. Beck & Neylon 2012, Huggett 2012 and Lake 2012. - [Laerke Recht, July 2016]
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9.8 The site as a book

  1. Starzmann and Roby 2016
  2. See also Shanks & Tilley 1992, Ch. 4. [August 2016]
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9.8.1 Staging the past
  1. On staging: Karlsson & Gustafsson 2006. - [Laerke Recht, July 2016]
  2. See also Olsen et al. 2012. - [Laerke Recht, August 2016]
  3. Cf. Pearson & Shanks 2001. - [Laerke Recht, August 2016]
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9.8.2 Scholarly concerns
  1. Matero 2006
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