Click above on the link.... of a great-inspiring blogger! An artifact is anything
made, modified or used by a human culture. I’m sure we think of archaeology
as the study of stuff you find buried underground, but I think I’ll use this month to list all the old
stuff…. Antique junk…keepsakes that my parents left in the Woodridge
home…..a lot of artifacts above-ground!
My favorite is study of artifacts can
be found in an old, old cemetery…like the gravestones, the hand carved headstones! Archaeologically speaking, gravestones are a
particularly valuable artifact in that one aspect of them is controlled: the
date. Since most people were buried shortly after they died, the date of
death on the stone was generally very close to when it was carved.
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