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Flotation machine in use at Hallan Çemi, southeast Turkey, c. 1990. Note the two sieves catching charred seeds and charcoal , and the bags of archaeological sediment waiting for flotation. Paleoethnobotany (also spelled palaeoethnobotany), or archaeobotany , is the study of past human-plant interactions through the recovery and analysis of ...
Compared with methods of land survey and excavations, archaeological diving has distinct advantages and disadvantages. The equipment, such as air compressors, exposure suits, compressed air cylinders, masks and fins, together with the training required for proper scientific diving is considerably more expansive than the training and equipment usually used during land excavations, contributing ...
In archaeology, excavation is the exposure, processing and recording of archaeological remains. [1] An excavation site or "dig" is the area being studied. These locations range from one to several areas at a time during a project and can be conducted over a few weeks to several years.
Archaeologists use water screening to find tiny artifacts like bone needles. - Danny Walker. Prehistoric people occupied the site toward the end of the last ice age, and temperatures would have ...
Diagram of a cylindrical flotation cell with camera and light used in image analysis of the froth surface. Froth flotation is a process for selectively separating hydrophobic materials from hydrophilic. This is used in mineral processing, paper recycling and waste-water treatment industries. Historically this was first used in the mining ...
Archaeologists found 115,000-year-old human footprints where they shouldn't be—and they just might rewrite the history of ... the scientists actually examine why that ancient mud was so special ...
Flotation (also spelled floatation) involves phenomena related to the relative buoyancy of objects. The term may also refer to: Flotation (archaeology), a method for recovering very small artefacts from excavated sediments; Flotation (shares), an initial public offering of stocks or shares in a company
In 2024, archaeologists using radar satellite imagery, in conjunction with geophysical data and deep soil coring identified segments of a major extinct Nile branch running to the foothills of the Western Desert Plateau, where the majority of the pyramids lie, which they named " The Ahramat Branch. They suggested that that The Ahramat Branch ...