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1st Archaeologists
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Nabonidus
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CE "Common Era"
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Basically the same as AD, except that it is intended to avoid any religious connotation or privilege
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BCE "Before Common Era"
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The same as BC, but as with CE, it avoids the religious connotation
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BP "Before Present"
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Most archaeologists feel more comfortable avoiding the AD/BC split altogether, subsituting a single "before present" age extimate (with AD 1950 arbitrarily selected as the zero point)
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Classical archaeology
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the branch of archaeology that studies the "classical" civilizations of the Mediterranean, such as Greece and Rome, and the Near East
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Antiquarian
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Originally, someone who studied antiquities (that is, ancient objects) - not to understand the people or culture that produced them
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Midden
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refuse deposit resulting from human activities, generally consisting of sediment; food remains such as charred seeds, animal bone, and shell; and discarded artifacts
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Potsherd
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fragments of pottery
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Stratigraphy
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a site's physical structure produced by the deposition of geological and/or cultural sediments into layers, or strata
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Culture history
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the kind of archaeology practiced mainly in the early to mid-twentieth century; it "explains" differences or changes over time in artifact frequencies by positing the diffustion of ideas between neighboring cultures or the migration of a poeple who had different mental templates for artifact styles
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New Archaeology
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an approach to archaeology that arose in the 1960s emphasizing the understanding of underlying cultural processes and the use of the scientific method; today's version of the "new archaeology" is sometimes called processual archaeology
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Anthropology
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the study of all aspects of humankind- biological, cultural, and linguistic; extant and extince - employing a holistic, comparative approach and the concept of culture
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