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	Sir John Evans Sir John Evans 1823-1908, English archaeologist, geologist, and numismatist. A president of the Royal Numismatic Society and of the Society of Antiquaries, he was active also in public welfare and was an authority on water supply. Part of his coin collection is in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. ... Read more
	Bethsaida Bethsaida [Heb.,=house of the fisher], in the Gospels, birthplace of Jesus' disciples Peter, Andrew, and Philip. Herod Philip (4 BC-AD 33) is said to have renamed it Julias after the daughter of Augustus, who died in 2 BC Some identify Bethsaida with the Julias just E of the Jordan and N of the Sea... Read more
	Sir William Gell Sir William Gell , 1777-1836, English archaeologist. He served as chamberlain to Caroline, consort of the prince of Wales (later George IV), and accompanied her to Italy in 1814. His original drawings of classical ruins are in the British Museum. Among his works, which he illustrated, are Topograph... Read more
	Sir James Young Simpson Sir James Young Simpson 1811-70, Scottish physician, M.D. Univ. of Edinburgh, 1832. He became (1839) professor of medicine and midwifery at Edinburgh. For a while he employed ether anesthesia in childbirth, but soon abandoned its use in favor of chloroform, which he introduced as an anesthetic in 1... Read more
	Ephraim George Squier Ephraim George Squier 1821-88, American archaeologist and journalist, b. Bethlehem, Albany co., N.Y. He is noted for his study of the prehistoric Mound Builders of the Mississippi and Ohio valleys. His works include Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley (1848) and Aboriginal Monuments of... Read more
	Sutton Hoo Sutton Hoo , archaeological site near Woodbridge, East Suffolk, E England, containing 11 barrows. Excavations here in 1938-39 revealed remains of a Saxon ship (c.660), which with its gold and silver treasures is now in the British Museum. The absence of a body and of personal objects in the ship has... Read more
	Troas Troas or the Troad , region about ancient Troy , on the northwest coast of Asia Minor, in present NW Turkey. Traversed by Mt. Ida (Kaz Daği) and strategically located on the Hellespont (Dardanelles), it was involved in various struggles to control the straits. Troas was the scene of the ev... Read more
	William Henry Waddington William Henry Waddington 1826-94, French statesman and archaeologist, of English descent. Waddington was minister of education (1876-77) and was appointed foreign minister in 1877. He represented France at the Congress of Berlin (1878). In 1879 he headed a cabinet but was soon replaced by Charles d... Read more
	Basket Makers Basket Makers name given to the members of an early Native North American culture in the Southwest, predecessors of the Pueblo . Because of the cultural continuity from the Basket Makers to the Pueblos, they are jointly referred to by archaeologists as the Anasazi culture. They are so called becau... Read more
	Percy Gardner Percy Gardner 1846-1937, English classical archaeologist. He served as field assistant to W. M. Flinders Petrie , helping him excavate Naucritus, a Greek settlement in Egypt. From 1887 to 1925 he was professor of archaeology at Oxford, where he was instrumental in building up the archaeology depar... Read more

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	Archaeology Encyclopedia entry from: UXL Encyclopedia of Science ...individual field archaeologist tends to focus...Prehistoric archaeologists seek to discover...archaeology. Classical archaeologists focus on the...The classical archaeologist is perhaps the...of a classical archaeologist. Field methods...artifacts. Modern archaeologists are much ...
	Archaeological Sites Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science ...or hearths), the archaeologist may be able to identify...previous usage. Archaeologists may employ techniques...first employed by archaeologists in the 1940s and...reflected light allow the archaeologist to identify differences...features. In this way, archaeologists have been able to...
	Stratigraphy (Archaeology) Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science ...stratigraphic principles by archaeologists greatly improved...top downward, the archaeologist can trace the buildings...By this method, archaeologists can illustrate the...single period. The archaeologist may also document...Among the first archaeologists to understand the...
	Archaeological Mapping Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science ...has been laid out, the archaeologist draws a representation of...underwater use. Most modern archaeologists will attempt to place data...nearest centimeter. Modern archaeologists still use maps KEY TERMS...repeated. Although the archaeologist strives for accuracy in...
	Ethnoarchaeology Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science ...understand a past culture. Archaeologists viewed artifacts as a means...In the last few decades, archaeologists have widened their perspective...anthropologists and ethnologists, archaeologists have reconstructed various...valuable information for an archaeologist to be aware of, since the...
	Nautical Archaeology Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science ...transport, and other underwater devices, archaeologists have improved their ability to survey...determine the age of these objects, archaeologists had to develop new strategies. Pottery...the scene of the wreck. Instead, archaeologists use anchors (and sometimes ship nails...
	Harriet Hawes Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...1871-1945) was the first female archaeologist to head an excavation. A classicist...advised by Arthur J. Evans, a British archaeologist excavating Knossos, to try the Kavousi...excavation, she was also the first archaeologist to make such a discovery. Gournia...
	antiquity and prehistory of the Americas Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...aboriginal peoples of the Americas. Archaeologists believe humans had entered and occupied...fluted-point hunters. A minority of archaeologists always opposed this theory and argued...Idaho, are more convincing, but many archaeologists remain skeptical and believe these...
	Material Culture Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...measurable form. For archaeologists, folk-lorists, historians...Material culture includes what archaeologists typically refer to as artifacts...The anthropologist and archaeologist James Deetz has suggested...illustrated with sketches. For archaeologists, time, space, and form...
	dating Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Before the 20th cent., archaeologists and geologists were largely...stratified deposits permits archaeologists to assess the relative age...system devised by the Danish archaeologist Christian Thomsen in the...archaeoastronomy). When archaeologists have access to the historical...

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	Archaeology Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...produced them. Therefore, archaeologists have to make sense of the...science. As humanists, archaeologists are concerned with how societies...organization. As scientists, archaeologists develop and construct pictures...first federally appointed archaeologist. The answer was determined...
	Indian Mounds Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...by the Smithsonian Institution's archaeologists in the 1890s, when Indian people...that followed, during the period archaeologists call the "Middle Woodland" (200...sites named Kolomoki and McKeithen, archaeologists have found that prominent men and...
	archaeology Book article from: A Dictionary of the Bible ...sites in the Middle East under a succession of brilliant archaeologists—British, American, German, French, and...to the magistrates of Thessalonica . But on the whole archaeologists' main interests in places associated with Paul...
	Roerich, Nikolai Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art ...India, 13 Dec. 1947). Russian painter, designer, archaeologist, anthropologist, and mystical philosopher. He was a prolific...Roerich combined his career as an artist with one as an archaeologist and anthropologist. In 1925–8 he led a 16...
	Poverty Point Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...Gaps between the ridges allowed access to a central plaza. Archaeologists are still unsure whether Poverty Point's population lived...an advanced, transitional character for the population. Archaeologists have long wondered how a site of this size could exist without...
	Ligorio, Pirro Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture ...Pirro ( c. 1513–1583). Italian architect, archaeologist, librarian, and painter, he settled in Rome in 1534 after...remains were known at the time. In 1549 he was appointed archaeologist to Cardinal Ippolito d'Este (1509–72...
	Cruachain Book article from: A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology ...a herd of wild pigs so numerous they cannot be counted. Archaeologists have suggested that Rathcroghan was built by Goidelic invaders...points in the site have been given fanciful names by amateur archaeologists over the years that are not necessarily supported by irrefutable...
	Prehistory, Rise of Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...French, German, and especially Scandinavian archaeologists had appreciated the high "antiquity of man...phrase) for almost half a century. One pioneering archaeologist was Rasmus Nyerup, whose efforts led to the founding...
	Archaeology and Prehistory of North America Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...systems and lifeways adapted to particular local environments. Archaeologists refer to the earliest North Americans as Paleoindians. What...game hunting around the remnants of Ice Age lakes in what archaeologists cal
	Hohokam Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History HOHOKAM HOHOKAM is the name given by archaeologists to a prehistoric culture centered along the Salt, Gila...southeast of Phoenix, by the early twentieth century archaeologists Harold Gladwin and Emil Haury. Since the 1980s, knowledge...

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continual
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...Dec. 3, 1997.) Continuous = occurring without interruption; unceasing—e.g.: “Crow Canyon archaeologists want to study the twelfth- and thirteenth-century village to determine exactly when it was inhabited and whether it was...

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	What do archaeologists study? If you guessed "people" then you would be correct! Magazine article from: Michigan History for Kids Magazine; 9/22/2006; 700+ words ; ...think about digging. Archaeologists gather information...seek information. Archaeologists dig (called excavating...people once lived. An archaeologist's main tool is...reconstruct the past, archaeologists prepare to excavate...Square holes allow the archaeologist to see, excavate...
	Digging for history: and interview with archaeologist John Blitz.(Interview) Magazine article from: Cobblestone; 10/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...professor and archaeologist at the University...Alabama. "Archaeologists dig at sites...societies. An archaeologist is an explorer...Still other archaeologists work to protect...questions an archaeologist on a dig hopes...
	LEGISLATION, LEGACY, AND LARSON: LEWIS H. LARSON, GEORGIA'S FIRST STATE ARCHAEOLOGIST Magazine article from: Southeastern Archaeology; 12/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...the Office of State Archaeologist at West Georgia College...states have state archaeologists, and those with...ways. Some state archaeologists work for or advise...institutions. Some state archaeologists are compensated for...Georgia's first state archaeologist, to historic preservation...
	Real Archaeologists Don't Wear Fedoras Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 5/25/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...most famous fictional archaeologist; he's the world's most famous archaeologist, period. How many...mention that I'm an archaeologist inevitably brings up...disinformation about what archaeologists actually do. I know...
	The last archaeologist? Material culture and contested identities. Magazine article from: Australian Aboriginal Studies; 9/22/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...Land Council (TALC) and archaeologists from Melbourne's La Trobe...investigate the way in which archaeologists have used material culture...what it means to `be' an archaeologist in the 1990s. Archaeological...in many other countries, archaeologists have established for themselves...
	Fed: Call for archaeologist crack team to boost investigations Newspaper article from: AAP General News (Australia); 11/16/2005; 474 words ; ...2005 Fed: Call for archaeologist crack team to boost...AAP - Australian archaeologists want to form a team...Brisbane-based archaeologist Megan Clift today...am saying is that archaeologists would provide further...evt/sd KEYWORD: ARCHAEOLOGIST 2005 AAP Information...
	Archaeologists, American Indians work together to study Orange County's earliest residents.(The Orange County Register) Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 9/20/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...Cypress College archaeologist who's been digging...traditions." "Before, archaeologists basically ignored...said Gary Hurd, archaeologist for the Orange County...began walking up to archaeologists working on Orange...
	Ethics and value conflicts: An examination of archaeologists' responses to questionnaire scenarios Magazine article from: Plains Anthropologist; 11/1/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...questionnaire distributed to archaeologists throughout the United States...discusses the responses of archaeologists both within and outside...Keywords: American Indian-archaeologist relationships; questionnaires...American Indian groups and archaeologists have attacked the discipline...
	Audit uncovers cultural strife between archaeologist office and Indian Council.(NEWS) Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN); 4/11/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...tension" exists between the state archaeologist office and the Minnesota Indian Affairs...understanding of which should do what. The archaeologist office "is a small office with a small...interest." The office of the state archaeologist, located at Fort Snelling, is a two...
	'Virtual archaeologist' to shed new light on 3,500 yr old civilization News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times; 8/17/2008; 700+ words ; ...that works like a 'virtual archaeologist' to shed new light on Thera...For several decades, archaeologists in Greece have been painstakingly...working in collaboration with archaeologists in Greece, this Herculean...as a research partner to archaeologists," said Dobkin, who got...