Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (578 page)

 
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The place where an object was found or recovered in modern times; the findspot.

 
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The place or end of something that is closest to its origin. Thus the proximal end of a bone is the end attached to the body.

 
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A Greek town hall in which a fire was always kept burning on the altar of Hestia as a sign of the city's continuity with its past.

 
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A broad spectrum of largely unconnected topics and approaches which misapply, misinterpret, and misrepresent archaeological material in a non-scientific and often speculative way. Such topics include the search for lost continents such as ‘Atlantis’, the idea that astronauts from other worlds visited earth in the past, and the existence of connections between sites that are represented as force fields or ‘ley lines’.

 
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God of
MEMPHIS
in ancient Egypt, patron of crafts, guardian of artists and artisans, and often represented as a
MUMMY
.

 
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See
PETIT-TRANCHET DERIVATIVE ARROWHEAD
.

 
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