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The most “unique” artifacts included an animal hide shoe, bark baskets and an antler shaped like an ice pick, researchers said. Melting ice reveals dozens of 7,000-year-old artifacts in Canada ...
Preserves the unique culture of a civilization that is still living or has disappeared. Example of architecture, technology or landscape that depicts monumental moments in human history. Examples ...
"Artifact" is the general term used in archaeology, while in museums the equivalent general term is normally "object", and in art history perhaps artwork or a more specific term such as "carving". The same item may be called all or any of these in different contexts, and more specific terms will be used when talking about individual objects, or ...
Artifacts from the archaeological record are usually found in the ground, and once dug up, archaeologists put data such as photographs and exact location of the artifact into the archaeological record. Bones are sometimes found and included in the archaeological record. Bones can be from both animals and humans that have died and been preserved.
B. Baal Lebanon inscription; Bann disc; Bashplemi lake tablet; Bat Creek Stone; Bead-rim pottery; Benin Altar Tusk; Beveled rim bowl; Blood antiquities; Bourgade inscriptions
The heart of the exhibit is more than 150 priceless artifacts uncovered in Pompeii and on loan for the event. Exhibit visitors examine everyday items excavated from Pompeii.
Lomekwi is an archaeological site located on the west bank of Turkana Lake in Kenya.It is an important milestone in the history of human archaeology. An archaeological team from Stony Brook University in the United States discovered traces of Lomekwi by chance in July 2011, and made substantial progress four years after in-depth excavations.
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).