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The Yates Professorship of Classical Art and Archaeology is an endowed chair in classical archaeology at University College London. The chair is named in honour of James Yates (1789-1871), whose fortune was used to endow the chair in 1880. Yates Professors of Classical Art and Archaeology: Charles Thomas Newton (1880-1888)
Temple of Athena Nike. The conservation and restoration of archaeological sites is the collaborative effort between archaeologists, conservators, and visitors to preserve an archaeological site, and if deemed appropriate, to restore it to its previous state. Considerations about aesthetic, historic, scientific, religious, symbolic, educational ...
Brown University. Archaeological Institute of America. Main interests. Excavations at Petra in Jordan. Martha Sharp Joukowsky (2 September 1936 - 7 January 2022) was a Near Eastern archaeologist and a member of the faculty of Brown University known for her fieldwork at the ancient site of Petra in Jordan. [2]
Martha Joukowsky (1936–2022) American; Middle East , field ... Australian; East Asia and Pacific archaeology, trade and exchange, development of social complexity, ...
In Birley's obituary in The Independent, John Wilkes, former Durham PhD student and Emeritus Yates Professor of Greek and Roman Archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology, wrote that "Eric Birley dominated the study of the Roman army, of Hadrian's Wall and Roman frontiers in general for much of his 40 years as a teacher at Durham University ...
In his 1969 book, Archaeology of Martha's Vineyard, William A Ritchie excavated and carbon-dated materials found in the shell middens and living sites around the Vineyard including around Menemsha and Sqiudnocket Pond. [5] In 1748 the Menemsha Road was laid out from Menemsha Pond to the common (south) road.
History of archaeology. Archaeology is the study of human activity in the past, primarily through the recovery and analysis of the material culture and environmental data that they have left behind, which includes artifacts, architecture, biofacts (also known as eco-facts) and cultural landscapes (the archaeological record).
Stratigraphy is a key concept to modern archaeological theory and practice. Modern excavation techniques are based on stratigraphic principles. The concept derives from the geological use of the idea that sedimentation takes place according to uniform principles. When archaeological finds are below the surface of the ground (as is most commonly ...