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Archaeology of Australia. Australian archaeology is a large sub-field in the discipline of archaeology. Archaeology in Australia takes four main forms: Aboriginal archaeology (the archaeology of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Australia before and after European settlement ), historical archaeology (the archaeology of Australia ...
Excavations. French diplomat and archaeologist Ernest de Sarzec begins excavation at Girsu in Mesopotamia (which he believes to be Lagash ). City architect Charles Edward Davis begins extended excavation and reconstruction at the Roman Baths (Bath) in England. George Smith excavates Later Stone Age tools in caves near Smithfield, Free State.
In archaeology, an enclosure is one of the most common types of archaeological site – It is any area of land separated from surrounding land by earthworks, walls or fencing. [1] [2] Such a simple feature is found all over the world and during almost all archaeological periods. [3] They may be few metres across or be large enough to encompass ...
Palestine [i] is a geographical region in West Asia. It is usually considered to include modern-day Israel and the State of Palestine, though some definitions also include parts of northwestern Jordan. Other historical names for the region include Canaan, the Promised Land, the Land of Israel, or the Holy Land. The first written records referring to Palestine emerged in the 12th-century BCE ...
Major ancient city/settlement spanning Ubeid period through Umm Al Nar, Wadi Suq to Iron Age and Pre-Islamic. Hili. Abu Dhabi. 3200–2600 BCE. Hafit and Umm Al Nar tombs. Jebel Buhais. Sharjah. 5000–1300 BCE. Necropolis featuring Stone, Bronze, Iron and Hellenistic age burials.
Gustaf Kossinna (28 September 1858 – 20 December 1931) was a German philologist and archaeologist who was Professor of German Archaeology at the University of Berlin. Along with Carl Schuchhardt he was the most influential German prehistorian of his day, and was creator of the techniques of settlement archaeology ( German ...
47.8386°N 59.3790°W. / 47.8386; -59.3790. Point Rosee (French: Pointe Rosée [1] [2] ), previously known as Stormy Point, [1] [3] [4] is a headland near Codroy [1] at the southwest end of the island of Newfoundland, on the Atlantic coast of Canada . In 2014, Point Rosee was designated a potential Norse archaeological site based on near ...
