The Glastonbury Lake Village: Models and Source Criticism
- 1 January 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Archaeological Journal
- Vol. 144 (1) , 409-423
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00665983.1987.11021208
Abstract
The procedures for critically assessing an excavation report are not widely discussed. Using the example of D.L. Clarke's model of the Glastonbury Lake Village, it is argued here that reinterpretation of a report on internal evidence alone is not possible. However in an adequately constructed report it should be possible to evaluate the logic by which observational data are handled, and to place the report within the context of those contemporary expectations within which the excavator worked. By this means the competence of the excavator may be assessed and the report accommodated within a more recently constructed understanding of the past.Keywords
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