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Lithics: Macroscopic Approaches to Analysis

One stone arch bridge remains of the Yuan Dynasty

Single-arched stone bridge, generally from south to north, bridge length 38 meters wide, 8 to 9 meters, arch span of 8.7 meters. Arch collapsed early years, the only remaining north and south sides of bridge piers and the stone arch incomplete. Existing pier is 6 meters, bridge piers junction with the narrow, both ends of the bridge width from 0.5 to 1.6 m long, 0.25 wide and 0.5 meters, 0.3 meters thick, ranging from 0.25 to puzzle made of flat stone. Pier bottom rows of wood piles, 10 to 12 cm in diameter to support the pier wall; piers inside the lower stone laying the basis on which to consolidate the use of broken bricks and loess, arch is made with blocks of stone Its size is about 1.5 to 2.2 meters, 0.3 meters wide, 0.3 meters thick. Stone arch between the upper and lower tenon connecting with horizontal stone arch between? Cast butterfly lock connected to reinforcement. Deck the middle of things to be paved stone bridge north-south edge of the stone section. Part of the stone bridge noodles with square holes and ruts groove marks.

Dollars “to the town of Jiang Zhi Shun” contains: “drag Panchiao army in this position before, the old name pontoon. Day of calendar year (1329) waste. To shun years (1331) reconstruction.” And later rebuilt by the Ming Dynasty on many occasions, to the late Qing has almost become a “dry bridge”, “product such as the mound of soil underneath Fu carry on.” Dust after being buried, only a “drag Itabashi” only. The archaeological remains of the Yuan Dynasty stone arch bridge, built in the Yuan and Ming begin, Li Ming and Qing dynasties, to the modern waste, consistent with the basic literature, should be documented in the drag Itabashi.

2, Song, Yuan storage remains Song, Yuan and storage remains of archaeological excavations since November 14, 2009 to January 8, 2010. Excavation trenches 16, pit 2, to explore an area of about 600 square meters, find the Song, Yuan storage remains 13 (which position No. 12,13, archaeological survey in 2006 found that rammed earth steps and the brick wall, was considered houses, granaries after the archaeological discovery, recognized as a granary) seat, one way.

Storage remains in the archaeological discoveries of the drag Itabashi north, the total length of about 200 meters north-south, things are less than 200 meters wide, covers an area of about 40,000 square meters. Storage remains divided Northern and Southern Sung and Yuan three periods, layout is very neat. Song barn 2, that is 1,2 barns, stone arch bridge in the north of the Yuan Dynasty. North-south arrangement. The construction method is to first carry out pounding the accumulation of soil units to form a warehouse floor, surrounded by masonry brick wall to form a warehouse with an internal wooden posts separated between the formation of different positions (the AO). Song barn 10, the 3 ~ 7,9 ~ 13 barns, granaries located in the northern Song Dynasty, the middle is a north-south, about 200 meters of the road separating the Song and Yuan Dynasties to the Song and Yuan road for the symmetry axis distribution, from north to south in order of priority. The construction methods and Northern same difference is found on the ground inside the barn brick paving, ground stone was found a large number of column bases, and Song granary, as well as the separation into different positions, the room also found in some positions be useful brick masonry of the warehouse for easy access between the ramp. Yuan granary 1, that is, on the 8th position, laminated 2 positions in the northern part of the Northern Song, the same construction methods and the Northern Song Dynasty. Also found in the barn to the east there is a north-south brick wall of the building (corridors) sites, suggesting that the granary should be surrounded by closed.

Song granary, that 1,2 positions (F1, F2): Archaeological Discoveries in the stone arch bridge north of the Yuan Dynasty, this storage remains found in the southern most. Direction of 204 °, the two 4-meter spacing, the formation of its station base as a whole Ben Zhu. 2 positions save more comprehensive, so focus on anatomy was carried out.

Site preparation for three years, the lack of suitable storage

National Institute of South-East Asia John dense fine (JohnNMiksic) Associate Professor beginning in the last three days at the “Chinese Export Porcelain in Southeast Asia” seminar, said that preparations for a three-year plan, currently the biggest bottleneck is the lack of suitable storage sites . The site must be able to store 250 000 ceramic pieces made in this region, and 250,000 are local Chinese export porcelain unearthed.

Close associate professor of fine early in 1976 on the archaeological Sumatra in Indonesia, he began in 1984 to start in local archaeological excavations, a total of 12 sites, 500 000 are accumulated during the 14th century ceramics.

Good collections like the University of Michigan Library

He said it would set up similar to the University of Michigan Library Goode Collection (GutheCollection). Good collection of library collection archaeologists Kaergude the southern Philippines in the 1920 collection of 7500, between the 14th century to 18th century pottery fragments in Southeast Asia, East Asia and Southeast Asia to study the importance of academic institutions ceramic trade.

Close associate professor of fine, said the region only in Bangkok there was a similar institution, was inundated by heavy rain, so the research on the subject of regional and local scholars have not hesitated to fly to Michigan to conduct research.

“If there is a database in Asia, Southeast Asia, scholars can use it to verify and compare the work. In other words, the ceramic pieces found in Singapore, not just the help of local scholars, it also of South-East Asia ceramic trade scholars to help them through trade and business between the ancient understanding of the prevailing social. ” Good collection of library spokesman Xinuoboli

is one of the invited speakers, she said: “Our archaeological relics from more than 20 islands, more than 540 mining sites, currently planned to be digitized. I that the most suitable for Singapore to set up a similar database, so far none of them has such a large number of discovery, but also a more scientific approach to the recent excavation. ”

Dense fine professor said that although the National Museum to donate a sum of money, but there is no readily available space, they also have to try and negotiate the relevant government departments, all of the current mining ceramic pieces stored in a repository layer stack National stack of boxes.

He said: “In addition to the National Assembly, the most hope that one day I Singapore National Museum to accept these things, it provides the ideal space, but they said that at present there is no space. That can only receive the National Heritage Board only a small part of the collection. ”

He said that the local archaeological sites worthy of including pasture in front of government buildings, they had excavated a small part, but the whole should be buried under the lawn a lot of archaeological artifacts, has not been mined before. Other places worth mining include Sentosa, Pulau Ubin, Punggol and Deguang Island.

Should play an increasingly important role in Singapore

Peking University Institute of Archaeology and Museology, Arthur M. Sackler Museum of Art and Professor Qin Taishu is one of the seminar speakers. He said: “Singapore as Southeast Asia and an important economic center, now also strive to grow into an academic center. The one hand, the local archaeological team in the local mining, Indonesia and Cambodia, have also been excavated, Singapore’s trade with Southeast Asia Ceramics should play an increasingly important role.

“Singapore has bought a special ‘Blackstone No.’ sunken treasure, you buy it, if not to let more people know about academic research, can only do it to promote tourism? Through more relevant (archaeological) research and activities in Singapore or even the development of maritime trade in Southeast Asia Research Centre.

 Ganj Dareh is an Early Neolithic archaeological site in the Kermanshah district of southwestern Iran. The site was occupied about 8400-7000 BC. Ganj Dareh is a small mound, representing an early highland village with evidence for domestication of the goat, and some of the earliest ceramics in the Near East as well. Artifacts from the site include clay figurines of humans and animals; Ganj Dareh is considered among the earliest permanent settlements in the Near East.

Ganj Dareh is an Early Neolithic archaeological site in the Kermanshah district of southwestern Iran. The site was occupied about 8400-7000 BC. Ganj Dareh is a small mound, representing an early highland village with evidence for domestication of the goat, and some of the earliest ceramics in the Near East as well. Artifacts from the site include clay figurines of humans and animals; Ganj Dareh is considered among the earliest permanent settlements in the Near East.

Along the craggy limestone ridges of the Zagros Mountains that run through western Iran and northeastern Iraq, the relationship between humans and goats dramatically changed around 10,000 years ago.  New research by Dr. Melinda Zeder, Curator of Old World Archaeology & Zooarchaeology at the National Museum of Natural History, and Dr. Brian Hesse of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, shows that goats, hunted in the region since the time of Neanderthals, were now being bred and herded instead.  Their findings on this historic shift, which forever changed both the societies of human herders and the ecology of regions where goats and other livestock animals lived, were reported in the March 24, 2000 issue of Science.

The Treasury of Ancient Egypt Miscellaneous Chapters on Ancient Egyptian History and Archaeology

Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions

If you want to study ancient or classical civilizations (including the Near East, Egypt, early civilizations of the Mediterranean, classical Greece and Rome, and the early civilizations of India, China, and southeast Asia), you should take part in interdisciplinary programs that include courses in art, architecture, classics, history, ancient and modern languages, and theology.

However, if you wish to study the historical periods (from the fall of Rome to the present), then you should combine history (including archival and oral history research) with courses in historical and vernacular architecture, material culture and folklore, and archaeology. During your studies at the undergraduate level there is usually little specialization.

A major in anthropology requires courses in all of the subdisciplines. If you are interested in ancient and classical civilizations, the particular undergraduate major is not important. You’ll need to have an masters archaeology degree (B.A./B.S.) to work as a field archaeologist in the U.S. and to perform basic laboratory studies. You can get it through participation in an archaeological field school or as a volunteer.

It’s very important to underline that the Ph.D. degree requires 2-3 years of courses beyond the M.A. This degree also requires the successful preparation and oral defense of a dissertation containing original research in your chosen specialization within the field of archaeology.

Some graduate programs offer streamlined tracks for students with a B.A. degree so that they work directly toward a Ph.D. while others require an M.A. degree first.
There are some programs that offer a non-thesis M.A. degree. If you are planning to work immediately on a Ph.D. degree, the preparation of a thesis is an important part of the educational process.

An M.A./M.S. would be enough to direct field crews and is sufficient for many government positions in archaeology. An M.A./M.S. with a thesis and a year of field and laboratory experience is the minimum for certification by the Society of Professional Archeologists.

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