After that, I'd love to get into excavations and, perhaps, post-excavation analysis.
The first year was split into three segments: pre-excavation analysis, which is finding the site; excavation and post-excavation analysis; and an in-depth study of Roman religion.
It is also to encourage the public to engage directly with both excavations and post-excavation analysis.
For artifacts such as the Sky Disc of Nebra, alleged to be a Bronze Age artefact depicting the cosmos, the analysis would be similar to typical post-excavation analysis as used in other sub-disciplines in archaeology.
The technical strategy included the use of high-resolution 3D non-contact scanning, live digital video streaming of the excavation process to an above-ground supervisory team, as well as more conventional archaeological recording methods to facilitate post-excavation analysis.
Legitimate dealers, museums and private collectors have a financial incentive to pay for expert excavation and analysis of artifacts, because that kind of documentation makes the objects more valuable.
But several anthropologists and historians, including Michael L. Blakey, who as the scientific director of the African Burial Ground project oversaw the archaeological excavation and analysis of the remains and artifacts, remained unconvinced that Dr. Seeman's arguments were decisive.
On Solti's old desk is a fragment of the living past – a score of Bach's St John Passion, on which Solti was working when he died, covered with his hallmark annotations in lead pencil and red crayon – his two strata of excavation and analysis of the composer's intent.
Excavation and analysis of human remains is becoming a polarized field in anthropology; it is therefore necessary to consider alternate avenues of data collection from these features to maximize their potential.
The authors would like to thank all of those who have participated in the excavation and analysis of Balathal and all members of the local community who helped make this project possible.
JHS thanks L. E. Stager (Director, American Team to Carthage) for the invitation to undertake this study and the Tunisian Department of Antiquities for granting permission for the excavation and analysis of Tophet urns and their contents.
