Diss. Uppsala : Univ., 2004.

Thesis (M.A.I.S.)--Oregon State University, 2002. / Typescript (photocopy). Includes bibliographical references (leaves 131-148). Also available via the World Wide Web.

At archaeological sites around the world, architectural interventions utilizing distinctly modern materials and designs have provided solutions for protection from environmental impacts, control of visitors’ access to ruins and presentation of historic remains to the public. In various contexts, reliance on the modern has resulted in educational opportunities and emotional experiences for visitors that would not have been possible using traditional modes of reconstruction. The incorporation of in situ archaeological remains into a modern building often enhances the phenomenological potential of the ruins while sacrificing positivist presentations of them. Many European countries have seen different examples of creative applications of modern architecture for the presentation of excavated sites. My thesis focuses on several European prototypes of the modern architecture–archaeological remains hybrid type, surveying how contrast in materials and stylistic breaks between new and old enhance visitor’s experiences. The prevalence and promise of modern architectural design at archaeological sites calls for the clear identification of the emerging type in order to promote it as a bona fide option for meeting preservation challenges. The classification requires the intervention rely on distinctly modern materials and construction methods, offer a stark contrast between new and old fabric, enhance the archaeology and foster understanding of the remains. The prototype studies point to the following benefits of enveloping ruins in a modern structure: nontraditional materials often lead to less literal, more open-ended presentations that promote discovery, transparency and spanning potential provide a broad range of possibilities for protection and interpretation, a dialogue between past and present allows for creative expressions about temporal relationships, and the appearance of decay enhances the phenomenological impact of the site. / text

Σκοπός αυτής της εργασίας είναι η απόδειξη της αναγκαιότητας ενός συστήματος διαχείρισής αρχαιολογικών έργων, αξιοποιώντας μεθόδους διαχείρισης τεχνικού έργου, προσαρμοσμένες στη λογική και τη φύση του αρχαιολογικού έργου. Στόχος της εργασίας αυτής, είναι η ανάπτυξη μιας πρότασης μεθοδολογίας διαχείρισης του αρχαιολογικού έργου έτσι ώστε η διαχείριση αυτή να αποτελεί αναπόσπαστο κομμάτι του αρχαιολογικού έργου και όχι μια ευκαιριακή παρέμβαση σε αυτό. Πιο συγκεκριμένα η εργασία αυτή επιδιώκει να παρουσιάσει και να αναλύσει τις ιδιαιτερότητες των αρχαιολογικών έργων και να δώσει απαντήσεις στα παρακάτω ερωτήματα: • Τι ορίζουμε ως αρχαιολογικό έργο; Ποια η φύση και η λογική του αρχαιολογικού έργου; • Ποιες είναι οι ιδιαιτερότητες ενός αρχαιολογικού έργου και κατά πόσο διαφοροποιείται αυτό από ένα κοινό τεχνικό έργο; • Σε ποιο βαθμό μπορεί ένα αρχαιολογικό έργο να θεωρηθεί διαχειρίσιμο; Τέλος, έγινε προσπάθεια μελέτης του τρόπου διαχείρισης του αρχαιολογικού έργου καθώς και με βάση την παρούσα νομοθεσία, σε ποιο βαθμό μπορεί να εφαρμοσθεί στην πράξη μια μέθοδος διαχείρισης. / Main purpose of this study is to demonstrate the necessity of a system of management of archaeological projects, utilizing technical project management methods, tailored to the logic and nature of the archaeological project. Through this work we are aiming to develop a proposal for a methodology of archaeological project management so that management is an integral part of the archaeological project and not an opportunistic intervention on it. More specifically, this paper aims to present and analyze the particularities of archaeological projects in general and give answers to the following questions: • What we define as an archaeological project? What is the nature and logic of an archaeological project? • What are the specifics of an archaeological project and how it differs from any other technical project? • To what extent can an archaeological project be considered manageable? Efforts were made to study how archaeological project management can be organized, to what extent can be practically applied as a method of project management, under current legislature.

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The Jot-em-Down Shelter (15McY348) was excavated by U.S. Forest Service archaeologists in 1986. The present study concentrated on the lithic assemblage, with a particular focus on the chipped stone debitage. The Jot-em-Down Shelter lithic assemblage was compared to assemblages recovered from four nearby sites, open sites 15McY570 and 15McY616, and rockshelter sites 15McY403 and 15McY409; and rockshelter sites located in and near the Red River Gorge, Cold Oak Shelter (15LE50) and Rock Bridge Shelter (15WO75). This study determined that Jot-em-Down Shelter was a multicomponent site utilized by mobile groups of people from the Early Archaic through Mississippi periods. Use of the site intensified around the Late Archaic and Early Woodland periods. Prehistoric peoples who occupied the shelter had contact with other groups from the surrounding area, hunted nearby, and processed hides.

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Study of visual representations of the first human colonisations of new territories offers evidence of archaeology's continued complicity in the production of ideologically-loaded imagery. Despite years of theorising about the slippery and powerful nature of visualisation, the practice of colouring scholarly and popular archaeological texts with supposedly objective pictures (e.g., maps, photographs, tables, illustrations and drawings) has yet to be disrupted. This thesis uses depictions of the first peopling of North America, Australia and Oceania to show that even our most scientific renderings of the past are often little more than reflections of the status quo. As archaeological images move between scientific and popular culture (through academic journals, texts, encyclopedias, popular magazines, websites and children's books), it is argued that they feed back on one another in such a way as to turn present-day socio-political circumstances into the prehistoric "realities" of first peoples. Using a mixed methodology of semiological, discourse, content and compositional analysis, this thesis speaks critically about archaeological engagements with imagery in an attempt to encourage closer looks at how contemporary visual artefacts have enabled us to find ourselves in the record of prehistory.