Sediment cores are an extremely useful tool used in conjunction with archaeological studies. Basically, a geologist uses a long narrow metal (generally aluminum) tube to sample the soil deposits in the bottom of a lake or wetland. The soils are removed, dried, and analyzed in a laboratory.
The 'schlep effect' is the term used by archaeologists to refer to the postulated reason for patterned bone deposits at field butchery sites and home base sites for prehistoric peoples.
For some strange reason, some of the great science fiction writers have been drawn to write about archaeology and archaeologists.
Using the scientific method can mean two different things in terms of archaeological studies: philosophy and practice.
The Scythians were a nomadic horse-riding society that pretty much ruled all of Central Asia during the 6th and 7th centuries BC.
Sometime in the late 13th or early 12th centuries BC a loose confederation of people from the Mediterranean Sea caused attacked and caused great havoc throughout the Mediterranean: the Sea Peoples.
Archaeologists use the term 'seasonality' to mean the part of a year a particular activity takes place.
The archaeological site called Sechin Alto is the capital of a pre-incan culture located on the northwest coast of Peru, occupied between approximately 1800-900 BC.
When archaeologists speak of a 'secondary products revolution," they refer to a change in strategies for using animals and plants, in the general evolution of how we obtain food and continue to live.
An urfield cemetery site at Seddin near Pritzwalk in northeastern Germany has a single burial in a large mound called the "King's Grave".
Sedentism is the term archaeologists use to describe the process of settling down.
After Alexander the Great died, his empire fractured into numerous satrapies, one of which was the Seleucid Empire
The Seljuk Dynasty was an Islamic empire which occupied central Asia and the middle east between the 11th and 14th centuries AD.
The Selk'nam were hunter-gatherers who lived in Tierra del Fuego at the very southern end of the South American continent.
The term Semitic tribes (or Semites) refers to several groups of nomads and camel pastoralists who spoke related Semitic languages and included Arabs, Aramaeans, Jews, Carthaginians, Ethiopians, Abyssinians, and Phoenicians.
The site of Sepphoris (known as Zippori in Hebrew) was the capital of the Galilee region at the time of the Roman occupation.
The archaeological site of Serabit el-Khadem is on the Sinai peninsula, on a small plateau north of the modern town of al-Tor.
The technique of dating archaeological sites and materials by seriation was invented by William Flinders-Petrie.
The Serovo-Glazkovo culture refers to a Siberian Late Neolithic to Bronze Age culture (4200-3200 BP) located in the Baikal area.
The Serpent Mound, located in southern Ohio in the American midwest, is a large earthen spiral structure in the shape of a coiled serpent (or at least that's our interpretation).
The archaeological site of Settefinestre is located in the Tuscany region of Italy, and contains a 15th century villa built on top of the ruins of a Roman villa.
One of the core concepts of the study of archaeology is settlement pattern studies.
