The Discovery Of Pottery On An Archaelogical Site
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The discipline of archaeology is by no means a simple nor singular study of
the past. Due to the wide range of evidence within the archaeological
record, from organic to inorganic, many different methods and approaches
are taken in order to deal with the wide spectrum of differing evidence.
Never ....
Middle of paper
.... inferred than anything else.
This therefore makes the study of pottery one of two parts. Firstly, the
physical study of pottery, which will be dealt with in the first part of
this essay, and secondly the study of the cultural insight pottery gives
enabling archaeologists to understand the society from which it came.
Perhaps the most obvious way of analysing pottery is by the naked eye but
its obviousness should not detract from its importance. By observing the
physical attributes of any ....
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