《地震考古IGCP-PP567-20161018》.pdf

International Geoscience Programme (IGCP) project proposal 567 Earthquake Archaeology Archaeoseismology along the Alpine-Himalayan seismic zone Proposed by: Manuel Sintubin, K.U.Leuven, Belgium Iain Stewart, University of Plymouth, U.K. Tina Niemi, University of Missouri-Kansas City, U.S.A. Erhan Altunel, Eskişehir Osmangazi Üniversitesi, Turkey IGCP Earthquake Archaeology - 18/10/2007 International Geoscience Programma (IGCP) Project Proposal Earthquake Archaeology Archaeoseismology along the Alpine-Himalayan seismic zone 1. Aims and Background Rationale Archaeoseismology aims at studying ancient earthquakes through indicators left in the archaeological record. Although it has a lineage that extends back to the late 19th Century, it is essentially a young and emerging discipline that has met with much reservation from many earthquake scientists. Many of those scientists question whether cultural phenomena – destruction layers, structural damage to man-made constructions, cultural piercing features, indications of repairs, inscriptions, historical accounts and myths, etc – can reliably be used as earthquake indicators at all. Sceptics primarily criticise the indiscriminate use of earthquakes as a ‘deus ex machina’ to explain otherwise inexplicable events in the history of a site and to add drama and conjecture to the history of a site. Moreover, in cases where there is poor spatial and/or temporal resolution, there exists a danger of amalgamating or duplicating past seism