민족지고고학의 적용과 한계

Abstract

Commonly, the objective of archaeology is defined as renovating past human being’s culture by material culture. However, when it comes to how to renovate it by remains of which period I’ve never lived in, it is not that easy. As one of methods to solve it, ethnoarchaeology comes out. Today, in Korean archaeology, rescue excavation? followed by development makes mainstream. Therefore people who engage themselves in archaeology neglect it and just survey the fields. In highly civilized society, culture of past gets forgotten fast and easily. Consequently, it is not that easy to renovate past just with a few excavated facts(such as remains). Fortunately, the tradition still remains in the primary industry (agriculture, fishery, hunting, etc.), making use of them can be said to application of ethnoarchaeology, and it will be included in interpretation by archaeological theory. For the appropriate application of ethnology, the first one is similarity of the form. Second, is the problem of universality. Third, we should consider the environment. Meanwhile, because remains are typical, many things that we can apply to archaeology by ethnoarcaeology exist, and in fact, there are many examples. But because of the aplastic of description and mental, it is hard to prove it. Considering the problem, I'm going to discuss about the adaption and limit with traditional excavation materials and ethnology data investigated by me, and examine it by dividing into relics, ramains, descriptive aspects.