Contents


Front Matter
banner/title page: Archaeology and Responsible Artefact Collecting
Introducing Tamara Kroftova

Contents

1.0 Introduction 
1.2: What is "Responsibility"? 
1.3: The Problem 
1.4: About this Resource 

2.1: What is archaeology? 
2.2: What archaeologists study 
2.3: 'Digging Up Old Things' is not Archaeology 
2.4: 'Collecting Old Things' is not Archaeology 
2.5: Some Differences Between Archaeology and Relic Collecting 
2.6: Artefacts and Archaeological Context 

3.1: The Archaeological Record 
3.2: Archaeological Context 
3.3: Archaeological layers 
3.4: 'Deposits' 
3.5: Archaeological Sites 
3.6 Topsoil Assemblages 
3.7: Cultural Landscapes 

4.1 What the archaeological record looks like in the Ground 
4.2: How The Archaeological Record Forms 
4.3: Worm Sinkage 
4.4: 'One-Layer sites'

5.1: Artefact Hunting on Stratified Sites 
5.2: Archaeological Excavation Reading List 

6.1: Surface Sites  
6.2: Surface Survey: Investigating Cultural Landscapes   
6.3: The Characteristics of Surface Sites 
6.4: Lithic Scatters 
6.5: Fieldwork on Surface Sites 
6.6: Surface Survey with Metal Detectors 
6.7: Surface Survey According to 'Our Portable Past' 
6.8: A Surface Survey Reading List 

7.1: Interpreting and Documenting Archaeological Information 
7.2: The Archaeology Skills Passport

8.1: The "Responsible Artefact Collector" 

8.2: A Code of Ethics for Collectors of Ancient Artefacts 
8.3: Acquiring and Documenting Title 
8.4: Selling Archaeological Finds 
8.5: Selling 'Scrap Metal' 

9.1: Curating Archaeological Information as a Personal Collection 
9.2: Curation - Storage and Preservation of a Collection 
9.3: Curation - Documentation of Artefact Collections 
9.4: Curation - Access to Information 
9.5: Curation - Collection management
9.6: Curation: Disposal of a Collection



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