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Excavation or removal of any such items also must be done under procedures required by ARPA. Encourages the in situ preservation of archaeological sites, or at least the portions of them that contain burials or other kinds of cultural items. Affects previously acquired artifacts. Continues to be amended; National Register of Historic Places [26]
In recent years ethical concerns have been at the forefront of developments in conservation. Most significantly has been the idea of preventive conservation . This concept is based in part on the pioneering work by Garry Thomson CBE , and his book Museum Environment , first published in 1978. [ 16 ]
The history of copper metallurgy is thought to have followed the following sequence: 1) cold working of native copper, 2) annealing, 3) smelting, and 4) the lost wax method. In southeastern Anatolia, all four of these metallurgical techniques appears more or less simultaneously at the beginning of the Neolithic c. 7500 BC. [4]
The conservation and restoration of shipwreck artifacts is the process of caring for cultural heritage that has been part of a shipwreck. Oftentimes these cultural artifacts have been underwater for a great length of time. Without conservation, most artifacts would perish and important historical data would be lost. [1]
[4] See also adaptive reuse. Restoration "focuses on the retention of materials from the most significant time in a property's history, while permitting the removal of materials from other periods." [4] Reconstruction, "establishes limited opportunities to re-create a non-surviving site, landscape, building, structure, or object in all new ...
Diagram describing major steps in post-excavation analysis [1] Post-excavation analysis constitutes processes that are used to study archaeological materials after an excavation is completed. Since the advent of "New Archaeology" in the 1960s, the use of scientific techniques in archaeology has grown in importance. [ 2 ]
[3] [4] Plastics are identified by various methods, including trade name, trademark, or patent number. Depending on the manufacturer, different chemical formulas and materials may have been used to produce the plastic over the years. [1] A recycling code may be present, giving general information about the material composition. Plastic ...
Horse grave in a Roman moat in the heart of London, England. Rescue archaeology, sometimes called commercial archaeology, preventive archaeology, salvage archaeology, contract archaeology, developer-funded archaeology, [1] or compliance archaeology, is state-sanctioned, archaeological survey and excavation carried out as part of the planning process in advance of construction or other land ...