Archaeology

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Archaeology

Archaeology is the discipline with the theory and practice for the recovery of unobservable hominid behaviour patterns from the indirect traces in bad samples. - David Clarke, "Archaeology: The Loss of Innocence", Antiquity 47 (1973), pp.6-18 (p.17).

Contents 1 Materials 1.1 Miscellaneous 2 Techniques 3 Object Classes 4 Stratigraphy 5 Analysis 6 Anthropology 7 Underwater Archaeology 8 External links

Materials

• bone
• ceramic (including pottery and faience)
• glass
• ivory
• leather
• metal
• skin (including fur, hide and leather)
• stone
• textile
• wood

Miscellaneous

• amber
• carnelian
• electrum
• gesso
• obsidian

Techniques

• Ground Penetrating Radar

Object Classes

• Orthostat
• Stela
• Shabti
• Talatat

Stratigraphy

• Harris Matrix

Analysis

• Archaeobotany

Anthropology

• Palaeopathology

Underwater Archaeology

• Shipwrecks

External links

• Women in Old World Archaeology - Brown University web site