ABSTRACT

This paper advocates using museum collections for archaeological research by offering a new approach to generate questions on the sociocultural lives of ancient people. I define “diaspora” collections as historical and archaeological artifacts excavated in a homeland site but currently stored in museums that are outside the homeland country. Of particular importance in this approach is the identification of artifacts’ diagnostic traits, including material composition, morphology, and symbolic decoration, that are to be linked to the “original” data in their homeland. Diaspora collections-based research necessitates provenience studies, as well as direct observation of both the diaspora collection and its original data. It also takes advantage of the recent development of various digital and remote technologies. A case study to show this methodology comes from dedicatory lanterns currently stored outside Japan that were part of the shogun (Tokugawa) family’s graveyards in modern Tokyo during the 18th and 19th centuries a.d.

摘要

本文主张利用博物馆藏品进行考古研究，提供一种新方法来提出有关古代人社会文化生活的问题。我将“侨民”藏品定义为在祖国遗址出土但目前存放在祖国之外的博物馆中的历史和考古文物。这种方法中特别重要的是识别文物的诊断特征，包括材料成分、形态和象征装饰，这些特征将与其祖国的“原始”数据联系起来。基于侨民收藏的研究需要来源研究，以及对侨民收藏及其原始数据的直接观察。它还利用了各种数字和远程技术的最新发展。广告。