UNLABELED+ARTIFACTS

__**ARTIFACTS TAKEN DIRECTLY FROM AN EXCAVATION**__
===HOW DO ARTIFACTS TAKEN DIRECTLY FROM AN EXCAVATION RESEMBLE UNLABELED ARTIFACTS IN A MUSEUM DISPLAY CASE? WHAT MUST ARCHAEOLOGISTS AND HISTORIANS DO WITH PHYSICAL EVIDENCE ONCE IT IS REMOVED FROM THE GROUND? HOW DO YOU SUPPOSE THEY GO ABOUT IDENTIFYING EACH ARTIFACT AND EVALUATING ITS SIGNIFICANCE? DO YOU SUPPOSE ANY ARTIFACTS REMAIN UNIDENTIFIED, EVEN AFTER ANALYSIS, AND IF SO, WHY? DO YOU SUPPOSE MOST RECOVERED ARTIFACTS ARE IMPORTANT OR UNIMPORTANT? MAXIMUM OF 15 COMMENTS.===

1. Once artifacts have been recovered or evacuated, it is the most challenging part of an archaelogist's work. He or she must research everything about it, anything that might look like it, the area in which it was found, how old it is, what it's used for, who used it, absolutely everything possible. Often, the actual reasearching and labeling can take years, if it is ever found to be actually anything known. Archaelogists have to really use a lot of inference to figure out why it was there, what it is, everything. Often, archaelogists find something that looks kinda like something found awhile ago in some other place, and so on, and so he must have extensive knowledge and research on anything like it so that he can identify it properly. Because some things are so old, some places so remote, and that some natural causes have made the artifacts appear so randomly placed, it is often that artifacts will remain unidentified even after extreme analysis. Recovered artifacts are nearly always important, because they can often reveal culture, time periods, language, the kind of people who used to be at that place, and many other useful bits of information. (hpo)

2. Unlabeled arifacts in a museum and artifacts found by archaeologists resemble each other because none of the artifacts have any information on them that tell you what they are.(jti)

3. It is exremely important for archaeologists to be careful and be as profesional as they can in their attempt to excavate ancient artifacts. If someone other than an archaeologist trys to dig up artifacts and does not take exteme care and take precise notes on the location of the find then that artifact may never be labeled. Simply taking an artifact from an excavation site ultimately is the same as finding an unlabeled artifact in a museum. One simply has no knowledge of where the artifact came from, what condition it may have been in, and many other key facts one must acquire in the labeling of artifacts.(hma)

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