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#cultural-period
Thesauri Of Historical Periods – A Proposal For Standardization.
Period names mean different things to different archaeologists
Archaeologists create terminology about periods in order to classify finds by a schema of relative chronology (periods) and to relate sequences of settlements and cultures. The use of a certain terminology implies a number of ideas that may differ from researcher to researcher…
Defining periods and settling terminological disputes
The design of such thesauri contributes to: the basic problems of how to define cultural periods and their interrelations (even when precise time, space and other properties are debatable or even unknown), and to the applied problem of communication, that arises because of…
Why historical periods are hard to define
The complex and multidimensional notion of cultural (historical or archaeological) period makes quite difficult a definition and a formal analysis of period and generally a relative chronological documentation.
What thesauri of cultural periods should do
[...] thesauri are collections of terms with generally agreed-on semantics and not individual definitions or representations of a concept (Doerr and Kalomoirakis 2000). Well-designed thesauri of cultural periods should help to: - define cultural periods and phases based on the…