The Archaeologist's Dilemma: On Some aspects of Archaeology as a 'Destructive' Scientific Discipline

Ronny Reich

The Archaeologist's Dilemma: On Some aspects of Archaeology as a 'Destructive' Scientific Discipline

Ronny Reich

Department of Archaeology

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Abstract

The ancient sites in Israel, and mainly those dating aproximately to the years 3000-500 BCE, are stratified mounds, i.e. sites to where people in antiquity returned over and again, building their towns and houses on top of the ruins of their predecessors. The archaeological method of excavation of such sites is to excavate from the top of the mound downward, one stratum at the time, record its architectural components and subsequently to dismantly these remains for the excavation of the following (i.e. earlier) stratum

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1009-1015
Journal	IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium, RFIC, Digest of Technical Papers
Volume	2
State	Published - 1987

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The Archaeologist's Dilemma: On Some aspects of Archaeology as a 'Destructive' Scientific Discipline

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