Excavation

During this time period it was thought that cultures could be well understood based on the chronological ordering of events. An important technique developed during this time was stratigraphic excavation, which was the differentiation and examination of different layers of earth. Stratigraphic excavation operates on the principle of deeper layers being older than more shallow layers and is helpful with dating layers of earth and the artifacts within them. This technique was used extensively for…

Narrative Title of instructional program: Archaeology Field School Subject matter: Archaeology Brief Program Outline The first portion of the program the instructor will explain archaeology, directions, definitions and tools to the participants. Gridding will be briefly discussed as the site will already be gridded beforehand. A brief description of site area will be given to the students along with ideas of what might have lived here (Native American, colonists). Lastly, the instructor will…

Islamic archaeology is defined by Marcus Millwright as archaeology of “the regions where the ruling elite has professed the faith of Islam” (Milwright 2010: 6-7). This paper seeks to explore the ways in which Islamic archaeology can aid in the understanding of Islam and Muslims in the medieval world, by first examining the requirements of Islam and Muslim customary practices, and then evaluating three sources through which they may be manifest in material remains. Archaeological evidence of…

get the body out of the ice due to bad weather. The body was not officially extracted until September 23-24 which was 3-4 days after it was found. The excavation was carried out by Konrad Spindler on October 3-5, 1991. The purpose of the excavation was to find the exact position of the Iceman. However there was bad weather again and the excavation could not be continued until July of 1992. Because they had waited for better weather to come most of the ice had melted but the excavators found…

held in Paris where he saw first hand some of the prehistoric objects found in the caves in the south of France, where excavations had been on going for some years in search of mankind’s most ancient times. Sautuola, who already had an extensive background in natural sciences and history, went back to Spain with a renewed prespective and decided to undertake his own excavation works on the caves in Cantabria. He returned to Altamira, accompanied by his daughter María. She would be the first one…

Pit at Ur, one can explore how these trends and differences appear. Additionally, these case studies can be used to examine larger issues within the field of archeology -- such as looting and preservation -- and to explore missteps in previous excavations in order to prevent those mistakes in the future. Mississippian burials are very modest in comparison to the graves found in Ur and in Egypt, representative of how the Mississippians were at a different stage…

The morning of August 24th 79 A.D. started out as any other day in Pompeii. The streets were full of people trying to do their daily chores and activities, unaware that it was the day that would be forever engraved in history. The Pompeian settled in that area mainly because of soil and agriculture, but were also mesmerized by the beautiful location. They did not know the dangers of the neighboring volcano and so believed themselves to be very lucky to find such a place. The city of Pompeii, in…

out of their eyes. He or she is almost always on an excavation in the desert, and are often portrayed as either old, cranky,…

a great deal of information through research on how h of the civilizations constructed a system living. There are many similarities between the two and their ways of living. Most of the information found on these civilizations are based on the excavations of the Badarian and Harappa remains. I am going to…

experience life. They’re viewed in four-dimensional space whilst in a constant state of flux almost as if the work itself presents a living situation (Willem De Kooning “Women On The Themes Of Painting). This can be experienced in De Kooning's painting “Excavation”, here the viewer is denied a hot spot, a place in which the eye always goes and he instead produces a slippery surface which is in a constant state of suggestiveness, it’s a space that is experienced in infinite ways (The Tragic…