Narrative Analysis of Archaeological Data in British History Textbooks: Focusing on the Textbooks of

This paper examines the characteristics of archaeological narratives in British history textbooks, where modern archaeology was established early. In the England, the National Curriculum has been in place since 1988, and the government has provided guidelines on what should be taught in history classes. According to the recently revised National Curriculum, the study of British prehistory and ancient history is intensively taught at the Key Stage 2, which corresponds to the 3rd to 6th grades of elementary school in Korea, and it is very characteristic that archaeological descriptions are intensively taught in the upper grades of elementary school in history textbooks. In other words, according to the most recent national curriculum in 2014, English students focus on prehistory, the Roman Britons, the Anglo-Saxons, and the Viking Age in the Key Stage 2, and in middle school, they move on to medieval history, and in high school, the subject of study in history textbooks becomes similar to our world history. In this situation, the history textbook of Key Stage 2, which is the upper grade of elementary school in the UK, was able to point out the current situation of effective use of various archaeological materials. The astonishing quality of British history textbooks is likely to have significant implications for Korean archaeology at the present stage of the full-fledged pursuit of popularization of archaeology. However, at the middle and high school levels, modern and contemporary history is mainly discussed, so the proportion of archaeology in textbooks is relatively reduced. The archaeological narrative aspect of the British history textbooks is considered to be very different from the current state of history textbooks in Northeast Asia, including Korea, and it is necessary to examine the background of the archaeological narrative in the future and the effect of educational activities using the textbooks on students.