For example, the presence of recycled bricks at an archaeological site indicates the sequence in which the structures were built.
The present paper deals with the in situ mechanical characterization of 2000 years old adobe bricks from the archaeological site of Nisa Partica in Turkmenistan.
"They think archaeological sites are just a bunch of bricks that have no value at all".
Vertical segments of the brick cylinder have been removed, but the remaining brick is left exposed, creating an archaeological impression, like old Roman walls.
An extraordinary archaeological excavation at Must farm, in a working brick clay quarry in the shadow of a chip factory on the outskirts of Peterborough, which has peeled back the millennia on the best bronze age site ever found in Britain, will end in 10 days time.
He was aghast at reports of soldiers filling sandbags with earth containing archaeological fragments; of armoured vehicles crushing sixth-century BC bricks on the Processional Way; of looters gouging out pieces of dragons from the Ishtar Gate; of digging, levelling, compacting and gravelling in this ancient city.
"Here, we have the alpha and the omega of enslavement in North America," Mr. Givens said, pointing at some tall brick walls and, next to them, an archaeological site where two women in dusty galoshes pored over clipboards.
The different archaeological horizons contain ochre-painted plaster floors and mud brick walls interspersed with midden deposits that have been interpreted as the contemporary architecture and associated occupation debris of the site's inhabitants.
The basement bricks were largely salvaged from foundations uncovered in archaeological excavations.
Earlier archaeological work had turned up a 13th- to 14th-century brick road.
Archaeological evidence of large-scale excavation and quarrying (for mud-brick, gypsum, salt, basalt etc) and the related appearance of water collection features.
