Archaeological site methods research as an information source to the museological documentation

Abstract

Objective: This research analyzes the archaeological methods research through the representation instruments identification, those are part of the archaeological documentation, seeking to include the interpretation of these methods research as an information source. The research is based in the analysis of archaeological documentation of Preventive Archeology projects with collections temporarily saved at the Laboratório de Arqueologia, Sociedades e Culturas das Américas da Universidade Federal de Santa Maria from 2008 to 2017, aiming to indicate which data allow visualizing and including tools that help to read archaeological methods research on field as a source of information.
Methodological: For this purpose, the investigation approach is nature applied, from the qualitative method, and the methodology is qualitative in its form, and exploratory in its objectives, proceeded through a case study.
Results: Therefore, it is understood that the sketch drawings collaborated to conceive the paths of their own field researches and the spatial dispositions and possible relationships between material documents deposited in archaeological sites.
Conclusions: Then, the insertion of methods research was confirmed as a source of information on the archaeological heritage, based on the inclusion of visual representations created by the researchers, making them accessible for post-field analysis by the scientists who carried out the investigation of field themselves, as well as by other researchers.