DIGGING UP THE PAST, LEONARD WOOLLEY 1931 ARCHAEOLOGY ANCIENT KNOSSOS, UR, EGYPT

Description: DIGGING UP THE PAST, LEONARD WOOLLEY 1931 ARCHAEOLOGY ANCIENT KNOSSOS, UR, EGYPT Description DIGGING UP THE PAST BY SIR LEONARD WOOLLEY Director of the Joint Expedition of the British Museum and the Museum of the University of Pennsylvania to Mesopotamia PUBLISHED BY CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS NEW YORK 1931 FIRST EDITION ILLUSTRATED 138 PAGES WITH INDEX HARDCOVER THIS BOOK MEASURES 7 1/2" X 5" X 1" THIS BOOK IS EX LIBRARY, OTHERWISE IT IS COMPLETE AND IN GOOD TO VERY GOOD CONDITION... PLEASE SEE PICTURES CONTENTS... Chapter I. ......... 1 Introductory— The scope of Archaeology- Modern man— Why does anyone dig?— The Antioch chalice— The tale of a potsherd— What digging has done — How mounds grow— Nature as mound-maker— A town’s destruction— Sur- face signs— The graves of Buhen— The due of the weeds. Chapter II. .......... 28 The start of an excavation— The staff of an expedition— The size of a gang— Division of labour— “ Baksheesh ’’—The archaeologist as digger— -Selecting a site— The first trench — Walls— Floors— Petrie at Lachish— A basis for history. Chapter III. .......... 53 Work on a town site— Dating evidence— “ Foundation-deposits ” — Ground-plans — Chapter IV. .......... 88 Grave-digging — “Grave furniture** — The wealth of kings— -Tomb robbers— The plundered graves of Karanog— Preservation and decay— Excavating a cemetery — The need to observe — First signs— “ Clearing ” a grave — “An Infinite capacity for taking pains**— Queen Shub-ad’s chariot— Waxing skeletons— Clay tablets. Chapter V. .......... 116 The use of archaeological material — The pyramids of Meroe— “ Internal evidence ” — Assumption and analysis — Progress by “group- ing ’-Team-work — Modes and fashions — Commerce and industry — The building-up of history— The excavator as historian. Index of Proper Names ......... 137 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS (Photographs of the Ur Excavations are reproduced by courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum and of the Museum of the University of Pennsylvania.) PLATES I. Clearing Graves, Ur II. Caistor from the Air (Royal Air Force Official. Crown Copyright reserved.) III. Basket-men at work, Ur IV. Assessing the day’s finds for “ baksheesh,” Ur V. Archaeological strata, Ur VI. A Palestinian Tell”— Beth Pelet (By courtesy of the British School of Archaeology in Egypt) VII. Evidence of date : inscribed walls at Ur VIII. A “ Foundation-deposit ” at Ur IX. Plaques from a Nubian “ Foundation-deposit M (By courtesy of the Trustees, The British Museum) X. The Palace of Minos at Knossos (By permission of Sir Arthur Evans) XI. Restoration work at Knossos (By permission of Sir Arthur Evans) XII. A Temple at el-Amarna (By courtesy of the Egypt Exploration Society) XIII. A chapel in a private house at Ur XIV. Ground plan of an Egyptian “ model village ” (By courtesy of the Egypt Exploration Society) XV. The “ Parlour ” of a workman’s house at el- Amarna (By courtesy of the Egypt Exploration Society) XVI. Egyptian and Mesopotamian cylinder seals XVII. Gold coffin from Tutankhamen’s grave (Photograph by Harry Burton, of the Metro- politan Museum of Art, New York. World Copyright strictly reserved) XVIII. Tomb Chapel and Inlaid Casket, Karanog (By courtesy of the Trustees of the University Museum, Philadelphia) XIX. A Scandinavian Bronze Age burial XX. A pre-dynastic Egyptian cemetery (By courtesy of the Department of Antiqui- ties, Egyptian Government) XXI. Pre-dynastic Egyptian burials (By courtesy of the Department of Antiqui- ties, Egyptian Government) XXII. Plaster cast of a harp, Ur XXIII. Furniture from the tomb of Hetepheres (By courtesy of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts) XXIV. The sledge-chariot of Queen Shub-ad XXV. The sledge-chariot of Queen Shub-ad restored XXVI. Removing skeletons, Ur XXII. Digging out inscribed tablets, Ur XXIII. Baking tablets XXIX. Inscribed tablets before and after baking XXX. Merotic Antiquities (By courtesy of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts) NOTE This little book is based on a series of six talks broadcast by the to whom I am indebted for permission to re-publish the substance in permanent form. DIGGING UP THE PAST CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY Before I begin to describe the methods of Field Archaeology it might be as well to say something about its aims. Nobody supposes that the digging up of antiquities is in itself a scientific end, and though there is always a thrill attending the dis- covery of buried treasure the ever-growing interest of the public in archaeological work is by no means limited to its dramatic accidents ; behind the mere romance there is something of real and enduring value. It is difficult at first to get in proper perspective such discoveries as those of Tutankhamen’s tomb, of the Palace of Minos in Crete and of the royal tombs at Ur; isolated by their novelty they come out of focus and dazzle us, but later they withdraw and, linking up with other things in the field of ordered vision, become features in the historical background against which, consciously or uncon- sciously, we play our part. When Schliemann found the treasures of Mycenae what first startled the world was his belief that Homer’s poems had been proved to be literally true: now few would argue whether or not in those tombs lay the bodies of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra masked with gold, but no one thinks of Homer or of the begin- nings of Greek history without having at the back of his mind the picture of Mycenasan pomp and beauty. Click images to enlarge Pictures sell! Auctiva offers Free Image Hosting and Editing.300+ Listing Templates! Auctiva gets you noticed! 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