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Excavation is the best-known
and most commonly used
technique within the science
of archaeology. Individual
excavations are normally
referred to simply as "digs"
by those who participate,
this being an over-literal
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Archaeological field survey
Archaeological field survey
is the methodological
process by which
archaeologists (often
landscape archaeologists)
collect information about
the location, distribution
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Artifact (archaeology)
An artifact or artefact is
any object made or modified
by a human culture, and
often one later recovered by
some archaeological
endeavor. Examples include
stone tools such as
projectile points, pottery
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Archaeology
Archaeology, archeology, or
archæology is the
science that studies human
cultures through the
recovery, documentation and
analysis of material remains
and environmental data,
including architecture,
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Bronze Age
The Bronze Age is a period in a civilization's development when the most advanced metalworking consisted of techniques for smelting copper and tin from naturally occurring outcroppings of ore, and ... > more -
Stone tool
A stone tool is, in the most general sense, any tool made of stone. Although stone-tool-dependent cultures exist even today, most stone tools are associated with prehistoric societies that no longer ... > more -
Dead Sea scrolls
The Dead Sea Scrolls comprise roughly 600 documents, including texts from the Hebrew Bible, discovered between 1947 and 1956 in eleven caves in and around the Wadi Qumran (near the ruins of the ... > more -
List of shipwrecks
This list of shipwrecks is of those sunken ships whose remains have been ... > more -
Minoan civilization
The Minoans were a pre-Hellenic Bronze Age civilization in Crete in the Aegean Sea, flourishing from approximately 2600 to 1450 BC when their culture was superseded by the Mycenaean culture, which ... > more -
Antikythera mechanism
The Antikythera mechanism is an ancient mechanical analog computer (as opposed to digital computer) designed to calculate astronomical positions. It was discovered in the Antikythera wreck off the ... > more -
Earthquake liquefaction
Earthquake liquefaction, often referred to simply as liquefaction, is the process by which saturated, unconsolidated soil or sand is converted into a suspension during an earthquake. The effect on ... > more -
Tutankhamun
Nebkheperre Tutankhamun (alternate transcription Tutankhamen), named Tutankhaten early in his life, was Pharaoh of the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt (ruled 1334 BC - 1325 BC), during the period of ... > more
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