Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2007
Keywords
Berezan bone graffito, hermeneutics, archeology, artifact
Abstract
The understanding of an epoch’s tradition and culture depends on the complex interpretation and understanding of each surviving artifact that can contribute to the reconstruction of a coherent notion of the past. Therefore, from the point of view of cultural hermeneutics, any archaeological artifact may be regarded as a creative expression of thought fixed in various forms (in a text or an inscription, in an image or an object) that belongs to a definite cultural and historical environment. Such creative expressions of thought in the form of images, objects, texts or apparently meaningless inscriptions come to us as hermeneutic problems that require a solution. The author has chosen as subject of this study one of the most disputed artifacts whose interpretation and understanding still leaves a number of questions unanswered: the Berezan Bone Graffito (550 – 525 BC or early 5th c. BC).
Faculty
Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences
School
School of Social and Life Sciences
Journal
JUBILÀEUS VI
Version
Publisher's version
Peer Reviewed/Refereed Publication
yes
Terms of Use
Terms of Use for Works posted in SOURCE.
Copyright
© 2007 Anna Boshnakova
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Original Publication Citation
Boshnakova, A. (2007). Hermeneutics of the archaeological artifact: Destruction and reconstruction of the lost meaning. In K. Boshnakov (Ed.), Jubilaeus VI: The Ancient Heritage of the Black Sea (51-102). Sofia: St. Kliment Ohridski University Press.
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SOURCE Citation
Boshnakova, Anna K., "Hermeneutics of the Archaeological Artifact: Destruction and Reconstruction of the Lost Meaning" (2007). Faculty Publications and Scholarship. 4.
https://source.sheridancollege.ca/fhass_soci_publ/4
