RELIGST 2AB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Rescue Archaeology

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELIGST 2AB3
• Professor: Dan Machiela

Document Summary

Setting the geographical stage:exploring the land of the bible. There is another way to nd archeological discoveries. If you nd pottery at a site, it is much easier to date the site. Another source of artifacts is the antiquities market or the black market. There is a white market and black market. Multi-million dollar business and many people want antiquities, rich people want collection items and ancient artifacts. The problem with these markets are that the artifacts are unrpovenenced artifacts, which means we don"t know where they came from. They weren"t found in a scienti c excavation so no one knows 100% where they cam from . Forgeries: there are lots of forgeries in the archeological world.