Category: archaeology...

• archaeology as the method of investigating prehistoric cultures, has been an integral part of anthropology since it became a discipline in the latter half of the 19th century
• digging up something at Herculaneum, buried by Vesuvius since 79 AD
• an archaeological site in your own town
• watching all the archaeology programs on PBS, Discovery Channel, History Channel, BBC, National Geographic Channel, The Learning Channel, and the Science Channel
• archaeologists writing the stories of their investigations
• getting to see what is in storage at an archaeological or natural history museum
• Mesopotamian temples facades embellished with columns in the shape of barley sugar twists or palm trunks
• hundreds of offering niches filled with artifacts in Templo Mayor, The Great Temple of the Aztecs in the middle of Tenochtitlán
• the enormity and magnificence of Darius's vision, seen in Persepolis's system of fortifications and its complex of palaces
• finding, describing, classifying, and analyzing artifacts
• imagining the amazement of Howard Carter when he peered into the long-sealed out chamber of Tutankhamun's tomb and saw this wonderful gold couch with artifacts all around
• Archaeology ... is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are going; they merely want to know where everyone else has been. (J. Bishop)
• deep digging, peeking under the mundane to find the magical
• Archaeological sites are found during construction work, through reading historical documents, geophysical surveys, and field-walking (recording of above-ground artifacts).
• Archaeologists usually draw or photograph the artifacts to make a visual record, as well as map the site. By carefully measuring and recording the shapes, colors, decorations, sizes, and ages of artifacts or features, archaeologists can link different objects and sites.
• an excavation equipment list

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