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    In archaeological excavation, a feature is a collection of one or more contexts representing some human non-portable activity, such as a hearth or wall...
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  • of audio signals in a numeric way Feature (archaeology), any dug, built, or dumped evidence of human activity Feature film, a film with a running time...
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    Archaeology or archeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts...
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    History portal Archaeological field survey Archaeological plan Archaeological section Cut (archaeology) Feature (archaeology) Forensic archaeology Relationship...
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  • This page is a glossary of archaeology, the study of the human past from material remains. Contents A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y...
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    section Cut (archaeology) Feature (archaeology) Fill (archaeology) Harris matrix Single context recording The MoLAS archaeological site manual MoLAS, London...
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  • Computational archaeology Ethnoarchaeology Taphonomy African archaeology Australian archaeology European archaeology Russian archaeology Archaeology of the Americas...
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    Archaeological association Archaeological context Archaeological illustration Archaeological plan Cut (archaeology) Excavation (archaeology) Feature (archaeology)...
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    Maritime archaeology (also known as marine archaeology) is a discipline within archaeology as a whole that specifically studies human interaction with...
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    In archaeology a tell or tel (borrowed into English from Arabic: تَلّ, tall, "mound" or "small hill") is an artificial topographical feature, a mound...
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  • and historic archaeologists. The key feature that distinguishes landscape archaeology from other archaeological approaches to sites is that there is an...
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    of archaeological interest. In archaeology, the word has become a term of particular nuance and is defined as an object recovered by archaeological endeavor...
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  • In archaeology a fill is the material that has accumulated or has been deposited into a cut feature such as ditch or pit of some kind of a later date than...
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    past; the more archaeologically correct term is a working construction of the past. In recent years, experimental archaeology has been featured in several...
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    context Archaeological field survey Archaeological illustration Archaeological section Cut (archaeology) Excavation (archaeology) Feature (archaeology) Geomatics...
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  • Archaeological context Archaeological field survey Archaeological plan Archaeological section Cut (archaeology) Feature (archaeology) Fill (archaeology) Harris matrix...
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    Nazi archaeology was a field of pseudoarcheology led and encouraged by various Nazi leaders and Ahnenerbe figures, such as Adolf Hitler and Heinrich Himmler...
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    Urban archaeology is a sub discipline of archaeology specializing in the material past of towns and cities where long-term human habitation has often left...
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  • ar Archaeological sites in Peru are numerous and diverse, representing different aspects including temples and fortresses of the various cultures of ancient...
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    phase. Archaeological association Archaeological context Archaeological section Chronological dating Cut (archaeology) Excavation (archaeology) Feature (archaeology)...
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    the 1980s and 1990s. Archaeological plan Archaeological association Cut (archaeology) Archaeological section Feature (archaeology) Chronological dating...
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  • African diaspora archaeology is the study of the archaeology of the African diaspora; Africans that were forcibly transported throughout the world by...
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    context Archaeological plan Archaeological section Cut (earthmoving) Feature (archaeology) Fill (archaeology) Harris matrix Relationship (archaeology) Single...
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    Posthole (category Archaeological features)
    In archaeology a posthole or post-hole is a cut feature used to hold a surface timber or stone. They are usually much deeper than they are wide; however...
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    continue to dominate. Webster remarked that the defining feature of culture-historical archaeology was its "statements which reveal common notions about...
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    Prehistoric archaeology is a subfield of archaeology, which deals specifically with artefacts, civilisations and other materials from societies that existed...
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  • Aerial archaeology is the study of archaeological remains by examining them from a higher altitude. In present day, this is usually achieved by satellite...
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  • northeast-southwest linear feature composed of roughly rectangular limestone blocks. Various claims have been made for this feature being either a wall, road...
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  • prehistoric. Of course, the understanding of the past gained through archaeology is broadly different in nature to understanding derived from historical...
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  • from a proto-language, i.e. a common ancestor language. That is, an areal feature is contrasted with lingual-genealogically determined similarity within...
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