El Problema de la Interpretación del Registro Arqueológico. Experiencias del Gabinete de Arqueología de La Habana Vieja, Cuba.
Year: 2013
Type: dissertation
Abstract: In 2006, after some twenty years of operation, the Archaeology Department of the Office of the City Historian of Havana lacked a publication that would explore the theoretical and methodological approaches followed in its research over so many years of work. The result of all this was a vast body of excavation and research reports, some of which incorporated theoretical approaches based on the prevailing trends within the discipline of archaeology during the 1980s and 1990s, which opened new paths for our discipline. The lack, until this year, of Archaeology and/or Anthropology programs in Cuban universities was the primary reason for the absence of a solid theoretical foundation among our archaeologists, whose professional tradition—forged through years of work—had made them professionals primarily skilled in fieldwork methodologies. Over the years, this situation has been slowly reversing. In 2006, this study succeeded in bringing to light, following a historical trajectory, the results of some of these works, evaluated according to criteria that analyze the role each played within the noted theoretical and methodological development. The theoretical connections—traced from 1987, when the aforementioned institution was founded, through 2006, when—are highlighted and analyzed under very specific circumstances, primarily local ones. These theoretical frameworks were shaped by the literature that arrived through various channels, including donations from renowned foreign specialists, whose influences set observable standards for the practical approach taken by each researcher in their fieldwork. This explains the absence of certain references that are common in the international field of archaeology.
Institution: Universidad Maimónides
Language: English
Subfield: Archeology (arts and humanities)
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7204879660