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Title: How to Observe in Archaeology

Author: Various

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HOW TO OBSERVE IN ARCHAEOLOGY

Suggestions for Travellers in the Near and Middle East

THE BRITISH MUSEUM

1920

CONTENTS

Preface. By Sir F. G. Keynon

PART I

Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY. By G. F. Hill
Chapter II. METHOD. By W. M. Flinders Petrie

LIST OF THE CHIEF BRITISH INSTITUTIONS AND SOCIETIES CONCERNED WITH
THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE NEAR AND MIDDLE EAST

LIST OF THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL JOINT COMMITTEE

PART II

INTRODUCTORY NOTE
Chapter I. FLINT IMPLEMENTS.
Chapter II. GREECE PROPER. By T. P. Droop
Chapter III. ASIA MINOR. By J. G. C. Anderson and J. L. Myres
Chapter IV. CYPRUS. By J. L. Myres
Chapter V. CENTRAL AND NORTH SYRIA. By D. G. Hogarth
Chapter VI. PALESTINE. By R. A. S. Macalister
Chapter VII. EGYPT. By W. M. Flinders Petrie
Chapter VIII. MESOPOTAMIA. By H. R. Hall

APPENDIX

SUMMARIES OF LAWS OF ANTIQUITIES

INDEX

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS AND TABLES

Some Hieroglyphic Signs liable to be confused with each other
Flint Implements
Types of Greek Pottery, &c.
Greek Alphabets
Asia Minor Pottery types
Hittite Inscriptions, &c.
Bilingual (Greek and Cypriote) Dedication to Demeter and
Persephone from Curium
Syrian Pottery.
Syrian Weapons, &c.
West Semitic Alphabets
West Semitic Numerals
Palestinian Pottery types
Egyptian Pottery types
Mesopotamian Pottery, Seals, &c.
Cuneiform and other Scripts

PREFACE

This Handbook is intended primarily for the use of travellers in the
Near and Middle East who are interested in antiquities without being
already trained archaeologists. It is the outcome of a recommendation
made by the Archaeological Joint Committee, a body recently
established, on the initiativ