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To dig away a covering.
Biofact
Excavate
Tradition
Something left behind after decay.
Relic
Hypothesis
Pictograph
Being a stone tool.
Dating
Material Culture
Lithic
Ancient objects made by people.
Culinary
Artifact
Observation
A chamber wholly or partly underground.
Crypt
Survey
Dunhuang
Image worshipped as a God.
Ethnography
Stratigraphy
Idol
The middle part of the Stone Age.
Mesolithic
Hearth
Context
A person engaged in the study of archaeology.
Pick
Stratum
Archaeologist
An informal term for an archaeological excavation.
Test pit
Dig
Cairn
Archaeological investigations taking place in the field.
Fieldwork
Rock Art
Hypothesis
The exposure, processing, and recording of archaeological remains.
Post hole
Ethnohistory
Excavation
Loose sediment excavated from a trench.
Spoil
Preservation
Ceramic
An artifact worked on only one side.
Trait
Uniface
Bureaucracy
An ornamental vase on a pedestal.
Urn
Provenience
Processual
A fragment of pottery or glass.
Aristocracy
Chronology
Sherd
Containers or other articles made of fired clay.
Profile
Pottery
Transit
The study of the characteristics and weathering of soil.
Pedology
Cache
Achaemenid
A pile of refuse located near a previous habitation site.
Cairn
Midden
Topsoil
A figure inscribed onto a rock surface by grinding and incising.
Herpetology
Trowel
Petroglyph
A cemetery containing cremation burials in urns.
Ufology
Urnfield
Indology