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Alice Gorman (born 1964) Australian; Space archaeology, contemporary archaeology, Indigenous Australian archaeology, stone tools, orbital debris, space as a cultural landscape [22] Carlos J. Gradin (1918–2002) Argentine; Patagonian Paleo-Indians
The names for archaeological periods vary enormously from region to region. This is a list of the main divisions by continent and region. Dating also varies considerably and those given are broad approximations across wide areas.
The term tessera lusoria (plural: tesserae lusoriae), is a modern archaeological name coined by Christian Hülsen in 1896, to denote a collection of tokens made of flattened bone or ivory and characterized by a parallelepiped shape. [1] Tesserae lusoriae date to the Republican period.
Archaeology or archeology [a] is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscapes. Archaeology can be considered both a social science and a branch of the humanities.
Dig was founded in 1999 by the Archaeological Institute of America with offices in New York's financial district. [4] The AIA had commissioned magazine editor and writer Stephen Hanks, who at the time was working for Scholastic News, to create a prototype for a children's archaeology magazine.
This is a list of notable archaeological sites sorted by country and territories. Afghanistan. Aï Khānum; Bagram; Buddhas of Bamiyan; Hadda; Haji Piyada mosque in ...
In archaeology, a type site (American English) or type-site (British English) is the site used to define a particular archaeological culture or other typological unit, which is often named after it. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] For example, discoveries at La Tène and Hallstatt led scholars to divide the European Iron Age into the La Tène culture and Hallstatt ...
Multi-cordoned Ware culture or Multiroller ceramics culture, (Russian: Культура многоваликовой керамики, romanized: Kul'tura mnogovalikovoj keramiki (KMK)) [1] also known as the Multiple-relief-band ware culture, the Babyno culture or Babino culture or the Mnogovalikovaya kul'tura (MVK), are archaeological names for a Middle Bronze Age culture of Eastern Europe.