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Archaeology Digs Photonics

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Investigators are using a variety of tools and techniques to find and characterize ancient materials.

Hank Hogan, Contributing Editor

Even by the standards of his day, the fictional archaeologist “Indiana” Jones lacked the proper tools. It is hard, after all, to carefully dig up a shard of pottery and gently brush away dirt from it using a bullwhip. Nonetheless, a more accurately portrayed — albeit less swashbuckling — archaeologist might have performed his job a century ago not much differently than modern investigators, according to Thomas E. Levy, professor of anthropology and Judaic studies at the University of California, San Diego. “We still excavate like our 19th-century predecessors — with shovels, picks and...Read full article

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