Name: Archtools Ltd Area: North Yorkshire Website: http://www.archtools.eu/ Founded in 2008, Archtools Ltd has been a supplier of bespoke archaeological tools and equipment across the globe.
The police said that a raid on the home of the unidentified man found not only a sophisticated restoration laboratory, metal detectors and other archaeological tools, but also thousands of Etruscan and Roman terra-cotta vases, polychrome mosaic tiles, pieces of travertine and multicolored marble that once adorned Roman villas.
Archaeological tools in Gaza are rudimentary - not ideal for the delicate task of unearthing fragile relics - and while local expertise is not poor, specialists from outside rarely visit.
Integrating dating and remote sensing data are important for mapping the location and timing of past volcanic activity, but can also be used to identify the sources of archaeological tools and architecture in volcanic areas such as the Al-Lajat plateau.
The discovery also demonstrates the use of ground-penetrating radar as an archaeological tool.
Objects are organized in categories, from paintings, sculpture, furniture, silver, jewelry, china and pottery, toys and games and the society's famous collection of Tiffany lamps, to archaeological fragments, tools, farm implements and police and firefighting equipment.
Recently, diagnostic morphological criteria including cut mark width and depth have been used to identify marks made by different classes of experimental and archaeological stone tools (Bello, S.M., Parfitt, S.A., Stringer, C., 2009.
Our findings indicate that the LAMAP is a useful new archaeological prediction tool and, as a corollary, that the hypothesis of human land-use behaviour underpinning it might accurately reflect the behaviour of the Classic Maya.
But with ancient sites becoming collateral damage and a blockade restricting the exchange of archaeological knowledge and tools, Gaza's rich history, spanning tens of eras and civilizations, risks being lost forever.
The research in the Tadrart Acacus has adopted a multi-pronged approach including archaeological techniques, ethnographic tools, and historical perspectives, to identify the major elements of the Kel Tadrart adaptation to patchy natural resources and arid climate.
Dating back 3.3 million years, the artifacts push back the archaeological record of tool technology by a staggering 700,000 years.
