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...first prehistoric burial discovered at Sardis came to light a short distance south of the synagogue. On the very last day of the excavation, an archaeologist found a jar lying on its side at the bottom of a 35-foot pit. Fragments of bone showed traces left by fire...
...archaeologist's kit, there are more than a dozen other methods that allow him to date the objects he unearths. By measuring the electron emissions from reheated pottery with extremely sensitive instruments, scientists are able to determine when the pottery was first fired. This technique, called thermoluminescence, was used to date Greek pot shards from the Agora, near Athens, back to the 9th century...
...Harvard University archaeologist has found in Mexico the first conclusive evidence that early man on the American continents hunted mastodons...
...floated out the window, and numbered among his fascinated visitors Trollope, Hawthorne, the Brownings, Napoleon III and his Empress Eugénie. With proper scientific detachment, Dingwall refuses to say whether these supernatural doings were real or imaginary; evidence points both ways. No such doubts trouble Author Lethbridge, an archaeologist who has often seen ghosts and has even sketched a few in his book. Ghosts are plentiful, he believes, because they are natural phenomena. "A ghost, ghoul, or uncanny sound," he writes, "is far more likely to be thought projection from one of your fellow men, still living on earth...
...Oxford Archaeologist M. J. Aitken explained to the conference why almost any disturbance of the soil shows up on the magnetometer. Topsoil is generally more magnetic than soil below it, so when a ditch or cellar gradually fills with material washed from the surface, it distorts the earth's magnetic field enough to be detected by the magnetometer despite several yards of debris...