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I've added some missed information and pictures to Excavation-Part Three:Trenches, Test Pits, and Area Excavation

[These posts are excepts from The Archaeology Coursebook by Jim Grant, Sam Gorin and Neil Fleming. This is an introductory text book which should prove useful in writing about archeologocal methods for stargate fic.]

( Excavation-Part Five:Key Concepts-Features and Cuts )

[These posts are excepts from The Archaeology Coursebook by Jim Grant, Sam Gorin and Neil Fleming. This is an introductory text book which should prove useful in writing about archeologocal methods for stargate fic.]

( Excavation-Part Four:Key Concepts-Stratification )

[These posts are excepts from The Archaeology Coursebook by Jim Grant, Sam Gorin and Neil Fleming. This is an introductory text book which should prove useful in writing about archeologocal methods for stargate fic.]

( Excavation-Part Three:Excavation Methods: Trenches, Test Pits, and Area Excavation )

After a brief hiatus to find better material, my archeology posts are back with selected excepts from The Archaeology Coursebook by Jim Grant, Sam Gorin and Neil Fleming. This is an introductory text book which should prove useful in writing about archeologocal methods for stargate fic.

Note: You may have noticed the variations in my spelling of 'archeology.' I prefer to use the American spelling, and will generally do so unless quoting a source that doesn't. I'm just too darn lazy for extra letter. ;)

This first section is not about methods, but how modern archeologists approach and perceive excavation.

( Excavation-Part One )

So, you may have noticed that there was no archeology post from the dictionary yesterday. That's because I've discovered that it is heavily skewed toward data that relates to archeology in Britain, which is of limited use in stargate fiction. Sure, it's interesting, and I will have more posts on those topics, I'm sure, but there are other areas which need exploration, too.

This being the case, I went online and tried to find out some things about Early Minoan Pottery and encountered a few difficulties. Few sites use references to prove their data. A lot of them use the same text that has clearly been copied from some unnamed source. *Sigh* Methodology, people! If you can't prove it, then it isn't a fact! *Heavier sigh*

Anyway, stay tuned, this is going to take more work than originally anticipated...

Today's entry was referred to yesterday's post on cordoned urns:


Collared Urns[AR] A type of early and middle bronze age *cinerary urn found extremely widely in the British Isles. Although there are a range of forms, the basic characteristics include a small flat base, a conical body, and a heavy overhanging rim, or collar, which is usually ornamented with incised or impressed decoration. Two main body forms are represented: bi-partite vessels and tri-partite vessels. The origin of these vessels is probably to be found in the Fengate wares of the British late Neolithic Perterborough series. Collared urns appear around 2000 B.C and are replaced by other styles of urn with continental affinities by 1500 B.C. Ian Longsworth provided a two-fold typological division that reflected something of the chronological development ot the tradition as a whole: the 'primary' series and the 'secondary' series.
( Examples )
( *Cinerary Urns )

Additional Note - From 'Prehistoric Pottery For The Archaeologist', by Alex M. Gibson, Ann Woods:

"Cordoned urns may resemble collared urns, to which they are closely related, single cordoned urns resembling bipartite collared urns, and double resembling tripartite collared urns."

( I'm confused... )