Hermeneutics in Historical Archeology

Abstract

In the work we present different contemporary hermeneutic approaches: symbolic, analogical, objective hermeneutics, among others. Such approaches have been applied in a variety of disciplinary domains. Secondly, the use of hermeneutics in Archaeology and History is analyzed. Finally, possible implications of use in Historical Archaeology are analyzed, understood as the field of sciences that addresses problems of the human past located in historical times and that can be used for their resolution, information from the archaeological register and from written documents. The data that come, mainly but not exclusively, from the composition of the archaeological record and from direct and indirect historical sources, can be convergent and oriented to answer the same question. The focus of discussion in this work is mainly on the methodological level.