Around 1770, Thomas Jefferson excavated an Indian mound in Virginia and carefully what is written on the hill. Jefferson was probably the first bulldozer that could be as scientific. He not only wrote what came out of the earth, but also noted the order in which the objects were found. Other people can read his report and understand what he had found and where. Such care is very important in archaeological reports, but more than 100 years after it was widely recognized.
Another famous man with an interest in archeology was Napoleon Bonaparte. If he conquer his expedition to Egypt, which took about an artist and qualified scientists, and his army. He wanted to investigate these people, record and draw all the objects from ancient Egypt they could find. He created a place for the study of artifacts in Cairo. The objects were the Louvre in Paris, but because the British victory over the French in 1801, all the artifacts went to the British Museum in London.
Jefferson and Napoleon were ahead of their time in archeology. A large part of the excavation of what happens in the ten years from 1800 from the rich to do their current server had the digging and excavation in the luxury picnic organized. This search was particularly popular in England and France, where there are many Roman ruins from the days when Rome ruled Britain and Gaul. Beautiful mosaic floors, Roman cemeteries and the ruins of the villages studied picnic fascinating. However, these actors, their conclusions only as beautiful objects, or the curious. He gave little weight to the fact that objects and their positions are the key to understanding the lives of people he had done his.
Later, people were fascinated by life in England by the Romans. However, shipments could be excavated by archaeologists picnic mixed material no good use of it. Archaeologists have the order in which things come to know from the earth, they should know that things groups. Only then can accurately reconstruct scenes from the life at some point in the past. You do not want your retired detective traces at the scene before he examined in relation to each other. And no archaeologist can tracks which were removed and mixed.
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