Subject: | |
From: | |
Reply To: | |
Date: | Mon, 17 Jun 2002 14:41:28 -0400 |
Content-Type: | text/plain |
Parts/Attachments: |
|
|
The Russians use a different type of sampler to obtain unconsolidated
samples fro stratigraphic analysis, sort of the "gouge" sampler with a wide
"blade" attached. p 6 Fig 1.1 "The Environment in British Prehistory" eds.
Ian Simmons and Michael Tooley. 1981 Cornell University Press.
Interestingly I've carried this Russian word around from archaeologist Bob
Wilkinson "krotavina" which is an animal burrow or our "bioturbation" and
finally met a Russian woman at Stony Brook on a site in Three Mile Harbor,
Long Island who explained it. I seem to remember she worked in the Crimea
for a number of years, then or now married to a US medical researcher in
prostate cancer. If it's a dark hole in a lighter surrouding matrix the
"krotavina" is descending (given an upper darker context) and if its lighter
in a darker matrix it was probably ascending. Anyway, she states Russian
archaeology is very compartmentalized, and people work on very specific time
periods.
George Myers
_________________________________________________________________
Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com
|
|
|