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    allowed to work on a sacred/holy site (social taboo of stakeholders) 1. Field strategies 1. Topo maps 2. geophysical survey 1. magnetometer‚ 2. conductivity 1. surface collection 2. penetrating excavation (surgical operations) Gina Michaels * worked on the market street china town at San Jose‚ article on pecked-marked vessels * she worked with the ceramics * KEY points: * she was an example of **stylistic analysis; *

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    References: Task | Lead time | Start Date | End Date | Landscape design | 2 weeks | April 2‚ 2012 | April 13‚ 2012 | Electrical materials | 2 weeks | April 16‚ 2012 | April 20‚ 2012 | Excavation/grading | 2 weeks | April 23‚ 2012 | May 4‚ 2012 | Installation of plants | 2 week | May 14‚ 2012 | May 25‚ 2012 | Installation of hardscape | 3 weeks | May 7‚ 2012 | May 14‚ 2012 | Please respond no later than March 30‚ 2012 Contract will be

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    Soil Safety Trench Quiz

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    ” a. A narrow excavation (in relation to its length) made below the surface of the ground. In general‚ the depth is greater than the width‚ but the width of a trench (measured at the bottom) is not greater than 15 feet (4.6 m). If forms or other structures are installed or constructed in an excavation so as to reduce the dimension measured from the forms or structure to the side of the excavation to 15 feet (4.6 m) or less (measured at the bottom of the excavation)‚ the excavation is also considered

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    Who Owns The Past…? 4/28/13 Anthropology Final Paper Archeologists study the past and other people ’s cultures through things they find like artifacts‚ documents‚ people‚ or any other miscellaneous item. Their job is not easy and it takes quality time for them to interpret things. They first start out by doing research; finding out who lived there‚ what they did there‚ how the land was set up‚ and where the buildings were. Next‚ they survey the area. In the case of Fort Parker‚ they surveyed

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    or stopped. People seem to look to blame something or someone for these things but we are only able to do so much to lessen the consequences of these disasters. Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 A.D. It killed 16‚000 people and preserved the city of Pompeii by completely covering it in a pyroclastic cloud of searing hot ash and rock. The cloud moved at speeds of 100-650 MPH at temperatures that ranged from 100 Celsius to 1200 Celsius. These people had zero knowledge of any of the dangers they were putting

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    no interactivity with any other groups. From the excavation carried out by UCC‚ little is known about the type of tools and building material used or the type of food which was eaten however the main expectation is hazel nuts.

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    ART 1/PREHISTORIC THROUGH GOTHIC ART Chapter 1: The Birth of Art 1-5 Nude Woman (The Venus of Willendorf)‚ 28‚000-25‚000 B.C. 1-6 Woman Holding a Bison Horn‚ from Laussel 25‚000-20‚000 B.C. 1-7 Two Bison‚ 15‚000-10‚000 B.C. 1-9 Bison‚ detail of cave at Altamira‚ 12‚000-1‚000 B.C. 1-10 Spotted Horses and Negative Hand Prints‚ cave at Pech-Merle‚ 22‚000 B.C. 1-11 Hall of Bulls‚ Left wall‚ 15‚000-13‚000 B.C. 1-14 Stone Tower‚ Jericho‚ 8‚000-7‚000 B.C.

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    King Tut's Stereotypes

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    special because it was the most complete tomb ever found. Grave robbers had disturbed other tombs scientists had discovered‚ but King Tut’s looked the way it did thousands of years ago‚ when it was sealed. 2The keeper of the archive of Carter’s excavation explained why finding the entire‚ untouched tomb was important. He said‚ “We can study how these objects were made‚ the materials and techniques that were used. . . . There is a great difference between looking at a representation of a chair on

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    though they became partners‚ later Schliemann went on to never mention Calvert in any of his letters sent back‚ regarding Troy. Schliemann did not have an understanding of any specific methods of excavating seeing as no there had never been any excavations as large as what he was about to discover and he had not been able to study at university. With a team of Calvert’s men they began excavating Hisarlik. Schliemann and

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    Civilization‚ and one of the world’s earliest major urban settlements‚ contemporaneous with the civilizations of ancient Egypt‚ Mesopotamia‚ and Crete. Mohenjo-Daro was abandoned in the 19th century BCE‚ and was not rediscovered until 1922. Significant excavation has since been conducted at the site of the city‚ which was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1980.[1] However‚ the site is currently threatened by erosion and improper restoration.[2] Name Mohenjo-Daro‚ the modern name for the site‚

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