map of egypt: kom el-hisn is in the north delta region, between cairo and aexandria
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Map of Egypt: Kom el-Hisn is in the north Delta region, Between Cairo and Aexandria. Map of Egypt’s Nile Delta showing the locations of some sites in addition to Kom el-Hisn. Kom el-Hisn today as seen from space. Tomb of Khesu-wer. Kom el-Hisn as it looked in 1988. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Map of Egypt: Kom el-Hisn is in the north Delta region,Between Cairo and Aexandria
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Map of Egypt’s Nile Delta showing the locations of some sites in additionto Kom el-Hisn
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Kom el-Hisn today as seen from space
Tomb of Khesu-wer
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Kom el-Hisn as it looked in 1988
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Typical day of excavating (1988)
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Local boys and girls screening excavated sediments
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Strings laying out the excavation units
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Mud-brick wall
Mud-brick storage silo
Pottery
A typical excavation unit
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Reuse of storage pit (grain) for pots or garbage disposal
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Layers or ‘strata’ in the sediments
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Finished drawing of an excavation unit wall
Mud-brick wall
Ceramics
Strata
Rodent burrows
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Excavating an infant burial
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Infant burial fully excavated
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Excavating an adult burial in a mud-brick tomb
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Adult burial with bronze/copper mirror
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Bronze/copper mirror with burial shroud preserved
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Drawing everything visible to scale
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Result of the drawing process
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Horus falcon
Inscribed seal
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Reassembled and whole pottery
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Reassembled but incomplete pottery
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Stone tools
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Flotation apparatus (San Juan Island, WA)
Water barrel Water pouring off top
Catch bucket
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Charred plants caught in cloth (light fraction)
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Remainder of sediment sample (heavy fraction)
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Pottery
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Animal bones and shell
Bone
Fish vertebrae (backbone)
Shell
Fish