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Rare Artifact Stolen From Israeli Archaeological Dig | Jewish & Israel News Algemeiner.com

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From www.algemeiner.com - January 22, 3:07 AM
A recently uncovered rare archaeological artifact was stolen this week from the Tel Shiloh archaeological site in Israel.

 

Tazpit News Agency reported last week on the discovery of the artifact, a broken clay pitcher lying in a layer of reddish ashes that helped to complete the story of the devastation of Shiloh, the ancient capital of Israel during the First Israelite commonwealth. The ashes found attest to a devastating fire the occurred on the site. The dating of the clay pitcher, 1050 BCE, correlates with the dating of the limited portrayal of events surrounding Shiloh’s destruction depicted in Book of Samuel.

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From fortvancouverarchaeology.blogspot.fr - January 30, 11:28 AM

The use of information and communications technology (ICT) has revolutionized archaeological mapping, image recording, and analysis through tools such as GPS, GIS, and digital cameras (Evans and Daly 2006). Gidding et al. (2011) note that archaeologists have been slow to adopt integrated digital recording techniques, relying to an inordinate degree on paper-based recording systems to collect data on archaeological phenomena.


Where archaeologists have utilized digital data, the resultant databases often can answer only very specific research questions (Gidding et al. 2011).


That the challenges of using ICT field collection are becoming less of an issue is evidenced by the recent session at the 2012 Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology conference titled “Using tablet PCs to support field documentation

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THis is going the be the way forward, but there will always always be a place for the pencil, tape and notebook  ( well   for now anyway! )

Martin Roseveare's comment, January 30, 11:46 AM
We've just built a proper integrated recording system for a project in Iraq (http://www.urarchaeology.org/). It does need proper ground-up design and a complete move away from the file-full-of-paper mindset to be properly useful
David Connolly's comment, January 30, 4:03 PM
Superb! Martin... you of course have made me jealous. This calls for a short article I think!
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