The Production, Preservation and Dissemination of Archaeological Data in Japan

Abstract

Japan is producing a vast amount of archaeological data because of the high number of rescue excavations taking place every year in the country. However, municipal administrations are struggling to cope with storing and disseminating the accumulated data. This article gives an overview of how fieldwork reports and archaeological illustrations are framed in national policies and how that affects the way they are handled locally, both in physical and digital form.

Keywords

• archaeology
• national policies
• archaeological data
• rescue excavations
• digitisation
• fieldwork reports
• japan