Elaine Magnusson describes an activity for elementary or middle school social studies classes that requires the students to examine typical items from Japan. Magnusson suggests sources for locating such items.
Exhuming Tyrants While Edward I's finger threatened to reanimate the sovereign body and Lind's vital chemistry swirled around in a vial, another member of the Society of Antiquaries, Valentine Green, exhumed the body of one of England's ...
Artifacts: An Introduction to Early Materials and Technology
For more on the use of more recent artifacts in the same way as traditionally excavated data , see the increasing range of historical archaeology publications such as The Material Culture of Steamboat Passengers by Annalies Corbin ...
When the property taxes rise beyond her means, she sets out to save Joyeuse by digging for artifacts on her property and the surrounding National Wildlife Refuge and selling them on the black market.
How can you ensure that you are learning everything your artifacts have to teach you? Charles Ewen explores a variety of methods and techniques used to prepare, protect, and analyze artifacts once they are in the lab.