Archaeology · Archaeological Method & Theory
A topic within Archaeological Method & Theory, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of Archaeology.
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W. M. Flinders Petrie
Argues that careful, systematic recording of stratigraphy and small finds during excavation, not the recovery of treasure, is what makes archaeology a science.
260 pageslink checked 17 Sept 2026Augustus Pitt Rivers
Insists that every object recovered from a dig — worked or plain, valuable or not — be plotted and published with its exact stratigraphic position, treating total recovery and precise record-keeping as excavation's basic obligation.