Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The Work of the Archaeologist
- Archaelogy
- history from
material
remains
- Artefacts
- objects
made by
people
- Prehistory
- before
writing was
invented
- Finding the sites
- Above ground
- Chance
- Stories
- Aerial photography
- Underwater
- Excavations
- Survey and
plan the land
- Diggers
for topsoil
- Grid is
mapped to
record finds
- Careful
trowel
digging
- Brushes and
sieves to clear
around objects
- Records
- Finds are
numbered
and stored
in bags
- Catalogued
- Images record
site and finds
at each stage
in the dig
- Finds are sorted and
investigated in a labratory
- Dating
- Stratigraphy
- the lower
something
is found, the
older it is
- Dendrochronology
- tree-ring dating, each year trees
grow a new ring of wood
- Coins
- often have
dated
stamps or
heads
- Radiocarbon dating
- living things take in
carbon-14, which begins
to decay after death
- Conservation
- the
preservation
of ancient
objects