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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 ...
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.
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
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 ...
[3] [4] In archaeology, palynology is widely used to reconstruct ancient paleoenvironments and environmental shifts that significantly influenced past human societies and reconstruct the diet of prehistoric and historic humans.
Archaeologists found ancient tools in Spain, revealing the daily life and agricultural practices of early Neolithic societies from over 7,000 years ago.
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 ...
The archaeologists found heaps of stone blocks resting on the sandy bottom at least 14 feet below the water’s surface. Near there, experts also located what is likely a funerary monument dating ...