首页    期刊浏览 2025年07月10日 星期四
登录注册

文章基本信息

  • 标题:Az archaeometallurgai kutatások gyakorlati és etikai kérdései = Practical and ethical issues of archaeometallurgic research111
  • 本地全文:下载
  • 作者:Szabó Géza
  • 期刊名称:Archeometriai Műhely
  • 电子版ISSN:1786-271X
  • 出版年度:2010
  • 卷号:7
  • 期号:2
  • 出版社:Hungarian National Museum
  • 摘要:Archaeology has made use of the opportunities provided by science and technical research to solve historical problems since the first third of the 19th century. Today, the rapidly growing amount of data and the variety of opportunities for testing archaeological samples has increased the proportion and significance of specialized interdisciplinary research more strongly than ever before. In parallel with the emergence of technical opportunities, besides the many tasks, there is an increased responsibility incumbent on the researchers. The followings are going to review the path made by archaeometric research so far and practical and ethical issues considered to be the most important in the present situation from the perspective of an archaeologist examining archaeological metal founds in the daily practice. During archaeometallurgic research, four basic problems have emerged, requiring attention and possibly urgent solution, of which the first two are more professional, while the other two are more methodical, ethical issues: • Over the past decades through the development of new technical tools, methods of measurement are not consistent with the measured results of previous research data; (Fig. 1) • Even in today's modern circumstances, there is a clear difference in data obtained by the same devices in different labs; (Fig. 2) • there are some studies, which appear to stand only for themselves, where no philosophy can be found in the background, but the measurements are simply desultory, or at least not perfectly designed; • Experiments and results of the tests can in many cases not be tracked, and in this way, these are not available for scientific research, or only in a limited form. Raising these fundamental issues are particularly important because better designed experiments create an opportunity for a more efficient operation even under tight financial conditions, and on the other hand, because it is considered to be a primary objective to avoid unnecessary moving, possibly destroying ancient artifacts. It would be greatly aided by a wide-spread practice, that a single sample would be taken for subsequent examination from each metal find even before the restoration, from where it causes the smallest damage, but gives a good representation of the object, and is suitable for the testing of material structure and composition. This would possibly avoid further damage resulting from investigation the artworks. A similar register as already available for archaeological finds, would make it possible to lend these samples, further facilitating accessibility for the scientific community. Until this optimal situation is reached, however, it should be regarded as essential to revert the results of measurement to the institute preserving the objects, and data are added to the register. Review of the results of previous research clarifies, that data measured by different processes can only be compared with criticism. While designing new experiments, it is a professional and ethical responsibility to take into account the metallographic regularities of the raw material and method of preparation of the concrete object. It would be advisable to develop a uniform sampling protocol, a global register of sam
国家哲学社会科学文献中心版权所有