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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The use of physical, chemical, or mathematical procedures in the study of archaeological artifacts, materials, or data. Archaeometry includes techniques such as radiometric dating, remote sensing, spectroscopy, and mathematical modeling.
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- noun The application of scientific techniques and methodologies to
archaeology .
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Ernst Pernicka, a University of Tubingen professor of archaeometry who is leading excavations on the site in northwestern Turkey, said the bodies were found near a defense line within the city built in the late Bronze age.
Just what are they suspected of and did the archaeologists have a warrant to dig them up? 2009
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Ernst Pernicka, a University of Tubingen professor of archaeometry who is leading excavations on the site in northwestern Turkey, said the bodies were found near a defense line within the city built in the late Bronze age.
Lance Mannion: 2009
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Ernst Pernicka, a University of Tubingen professor of archaeometry who is leading excavations on the site in northwestern Turkey, said the bodies were found near a defense line within the city built in the late Bronze age.
Archaeology Update Bill Crider 2009
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Ernst Pernicka, a University of Tubingen professor of archaeometry who is leading excavations on the site in northwestern Turkey, said the bodies were found near a defense line within the city built in the late Bronze age.
Archive 2009-09-20 Bill Crider 2009
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It also meant, however, that I was well equipped to do graduate work in archaeometry -- with Nick van der Merwe, who was at that time professor of archaeology here in Cape Town, and was pioneering the field of stable isotope research in archaeology.
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Patrick Degryse is professor of archaeometry in the geology section of the Centre for Archaeological Sciences at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
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The archaeometry group of the CAS adopts a multi-isotope approach to solve archaeological problems, i.e. combined analysis of several isotope tracers per sample, thereby overcoming significant limitations in the data interpretation that result from classical approaches in which only one isotope system is considered.
Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Isotope Archaeology Survey Report 1 2003
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This includes the evaluation of radiogenic isotope tracers rarely applied or completely new in archaeological studies, such as 143Nd, 176Hf (hafnium), 187Os, and 115Sn (tin), as well as the application of Pb and Sr isotopes to archaeological material types beyond those classically used for Pb and Sr isotope archaeometry.
Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Isotope Archaeology Survey Report 1 2003
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It is categorized and searchable by subject (from archaeometry to site tours) and geographic region.
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Forensic anthropology and anthropological archaeology, as well as palaeopathology and archaeometry would offer some of the best avenues for seeking to retrieve such data/evidence.
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