ABSTRACT

The topic of Sharing Archaeology only mentions sharing, yet we are all fully in agreement that this means sharing archaeology with the natural sciences. Archaeology draws support from geography, paleo-environmentology, paleozoology, paleobotany and paleoanthroplogy. It draws on testing and analysis of ceramics, bronzes, iron and jade. It makes use of Carbon 14 dating and remote sensing; it uses computer technology to store, process and analyse data. They are part of the same family and have only been separated in around the last twenty five years. The first is the Excavators Story. Secondly, the writers of the report have added an inventory of missing items. The combination of archaeology and history of art is a growing trend. Archaeology is an integrated science which deals with the material substance of the past which is in any way related to humankind, and, of course, serves our modern integrated, substantive world.