Hard - working and responsible Museum Technician with eight years experience in helping curators with the maintenance of museum items; with solid knowledge of various museum practices or methods and
of archaeological materials and methods.
They also need to be knowledgeable
of archaeological materials and methods.
«The severe contamination
of archaeological material has no precedent in the history of cultural heritage and caused irreversible alteration to the archaeological materials with enormous loss of scientific information,» the scientists wrote.
«Each year, 20 to 30 students spend four to six weeks at Argilos to learn excavation techniques and analysis
of archaeological material, and to visit various archaeological sites in northern Greece,» says Perreault.
In Africa, however, a lot
of the archaeological material is from stone tools.
John R. Johnson (curator 1986 - present) has built a good comparative faunal collection, and the department serves as a repository for curation
of archaeological material from Channel Islands National Park, Los Padres National Forest, and various cultural resource management projects.
VMFA also participates with the American Association of Museum Directors (AAMD) Object Registry: AAMD Object Registry which lists new acquisitions
of archaeological material and works of ancient art and tracks resolutions of claims for Nazi - era cultural assets.
Not exact matches
Beginning with The Landmark Thucydides (1996), Strassler has produced authoritative new editions
of the major Greek historians that include copious maps for easy reference, a continuous chronology on every page, marginal chapter summaries, photographs
of relevant
archaeological materials, abundant footnotes (always illuminating, never bloated), and a comprehensive appendix featuring learned but accessible articles by prominent scholars.
Through genetic
material preserved in fish bones from
archaeological sites, Star and colleagues uncovered the apparent origin
of a trade route that continues today.
The signatures are added to a database which, when large enough, can be used to determine the geographic origin
of material found at an
archaeological site.
After isolating
material coating the textile fragments, University
of York
archaeological chemist Stephen Buckley analyzed its chemical makeup.
Dr Simon Blockley and Dr Alison MacLeod, from the Department
of Geography at Royal Holloway, analysed volcanic
material that preserved the
archaeological site in the village
of Nor Geghi, in the Kotayk Province
of Armenia.
Dr Edgeworth said: «It may seem odd to think
of plastics as
archaeological and geological
materials because they are so new, but we increasingly find them as inclusions in recent strata.
Several dating techniques applied to
archaeological materials and the fossil itself suggest the jawbone is between 175,000 - 200,000 years old, pushing back the modern human migration out
of Africa by at least 50,000 years.
Although computer models
of archaeological sites are ideal software tools for managing spatially referenced data and commonly used to yield insights which contribute to the protection
of heritage
materials, some scientists question their credibility, calling for these long - term trends be «ground truthed» in order to ensure that calculated rates
of change reflect observed phenomena «in the field».
«Our approach will revolutionize the way important and irreplaceable
archaeological materials are analyzed and interpreted,» said Kakoulli, co-director
of UCLA's Molecular and Nano Archaeology Laboratory and a member
of the UCLA / Getty Conservation Program.
In addition to CT scanning
of bones and teeth and radiocarbon dating
of previously excavated
materials, researchers hope to launch new
archaeological digs, possibly in Europe or the Near East.
«Our
materials analysis provides a fresh and rich
archaeological context for the Tebtunis portraits, reflecting the international perspective
of these ancient Egyptians,» Walton said.
In 2006, researchers used radiocarbon - dated
material from 150
archaeological sites in the eastern Sahara to map a change in settlement patterns that coincided with increased desertification
of the region.
Researchers also examined the
archaeological materials from the original excavations and identified several new fragments
of vertebrae and ribs
of La Ferrassie 1.
«Ancient DNA has the power to reveal aspects
of population history that are very difficult to infer from modern populations or
archaeological material culture alone,» said Aldenderfer.
The discovery
of the site, named Lomekwi 3, instantly pushed back the beginning
of the
archaeological record by 700,000 years, or by over a quarter
of humanity's previously - known
material cultural history.
Stone is
of all
materials the most dealt with in archaeology and stone tools are
of paramount importance not only because they are very well preserved in the
archaeological record and common to all cultures but also because they are the basic tools with which most other tools were made in prehistory.
These most intimate
of ancient human artifacts were often ignored or discarded during many previous
archaeological excavations, but careful study
of materials painstakingly recovered from human paleofeces says a lot about what ancient human dietary practices were like, given their incredibly high content
of fiber, undigested plant remains.
Its presence in organic
materials is the basis
of the radiocarbon dating method pioneered by Willard Libby and colleagues to date
archaeological, geological and hydrogeological samples.
Looting is a major problem, and lack
of funding seriously compromises not only the protection
of cave sites, but also the preservation
of materials and publication
of the information recovered by
archaeological research.
The core
of the
archaeological collections consists
of artifacts, faunal remains, and other
materials from field surveys and excavation on the Northern Channel Islands, Santa Barbara mainland coast, and adjacent back country by David Banks Rogers (curator 1923 - 1938) and Phil C. Orr (curator 1938 - 1968).
The Museum collection comprises ethnographic, historic,
archaeological and archival
material of the northern Vancouver Island area, specifically from Oyster River east to Desolation Sound and north to Rivers Inlet, including off - shore islands; west to Gold River and beyond to the outer coast at Estevan Point, and north to the tip
of Vancouver Island.
These imagined ruins, restored memory and
archaeological (re) creation are made
of various
materials, from bas - reliefs, to monumental architectural sculptures evoking the doors and structures
of the subterranean, here constructed in polystyrene, polished aluminium, plaster and cement.
In several elaborate projects in the mid - to late «90s, Dion and a team
of helpers excavated a site - always chosen to hold no real
archaeological value - and extracted non-natural items (swizzle sticks, dolls, shards, bottle caps), cleaning, sorting and exhibiting them in neat rows according to
material, shape or color in large wooden cabinets.
The exhibition, entitled When, featured several ongoing series, showcasing Baird's use
of archaeological sites and remains to source the concepts and
material for his sculptural practice, including -LSB-...]
Fetish, 2016, presented in the first floor galleries, delves further into the stratified relationships between culture, value, and
material by focusing on Sigmund Freud's personal collection
of archaeological statues and artefacts.
She frequently uses
archaeological objects as a metaphor for the human mind and there is a clear exploration
of the human psyche and a search for
material that is repressed.
Through observing the intertwined identities, unregulated economies and shared resistance felt across the densely layered
archaeological and urban sites
of Lebanon, The Drift explores the politics
of conflict through its
material — and immaterial — residue.
They illustrate an
archaeological sequence that traces the evolution and
material culture
of an alternative, parallel humanoid from an imagined past into a possible future.
The works in this group exhibition were selected because
of their
archaeological undertones, their appropriation
of materials, their reference to prior points
of artistic practice, and their layers
of the handmade.
Her handling
of historical
materials betrays an almost
archaeological interest in that which is concealed, its multifarious potential conveyed through her work in striking ways to evoke a range
of sensations and recollections.
Fragments
of the geological and
archaeological substrate, technologies
of energy and information management, skins and structures from the inorganic and organic domain interweave in order to trace the historical, epistemological and morphological correlations between natural phenomena, technological infrastructures, the
material and intangible manifestations
of memory.
However, instead
of constructing sculpture from the inside out, so that
material mass and volume are emptied out in favor
of a skeletal space - as - mass, Toya's guiding paradigm is
archaeological.
His ongoing interest in exploring
material culture from an
archaeological perspective, particularly the multilayered nature
of objects, reflecting on the relationship we, as human beings, establish with the objects we create, use, and discard.
«It may seem odd to think
of plastics as
archaeological and geological
materials because they are so new, but we increasingly find them as inclusions in recent strata.
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of the
archaeological ethics surrounding the collecting
of antiquities and
archaeological material by David.