Settlement archaeology

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Settlement archaeology (German:Siedlungsarchäologie) is a branch of modern

to resolve archaeological questions, mostly in the field of prehistory and early history.

Settlement archaeology as the archaeology of peoples

The term settlement archaeology initially referred to a research methodology whose most important exponent was

Postwar Era
the empirical collecting of facts and their chronological and spatial arrangement was declared the main goal of research, which set the final course for today's German archaeology. Theoretical approaches moved to the background.

Modern settlement archeology

Since the 1920s more and more works have emerged in which individual regions have been archaeologically researched. At the same time, more emphasis was placed on investigating the settlements themselves. Researchers such as

New trends

More recently the focus has increasingly been on the individual settlement and the analysis of landscapes and territories, mostly using geographic information systems (GIS). Today the term landscape archaeology is preferred. The long-standing role of natural sciences in settlement archeology has recently further increased, and geography, geology, zoology, botany, and anthropology have been increasingly used in the field of soil science, which is reflected, for example, in the field of geoarchaeology.

References

  1. ^ Kossinna, Gustaf (1911). Die Herkunft der Germanen: zur methode der Siedlungsarchäologie (in German). Würzburg: C. Kabitzsch. p. 3."Scharf umgrenzte archäologische Kulturprovinzen decken sich zu allen Zeiten mit ganz bestimmten Völkern oder Völkerstämmen"
  2. ^ "sich des Analogieschlußes [bedient], insofern sie die Erhellung uralter, dunkler Zeiten durch Rückschlüsse aus der klaren Gegenwart oder aus zwar ebenfalls noch alten, jedoch durch reiche Überlieferung ausgezeichneten Epochen vornimmt. Sie erhellt vorgeschichtliche Zeiten durch solche, die in geschichtlichem Lichte stehen.“
  3. ^ Mahsarski, Dirk. "Herbert Jankuhn (1905–1990) : ein deutscher Prähistoriker zwischen nationalsozialistischer Ideologie und wissenschaftlicher Objektivität". academia.edu (in German). Retrieved Oct 14, 2018.