Geoarchaeology offers the following evaluation methods and services:
- Geoarchaeological fieldwork and counseling
- Micromorphology
- Rock and building material analyses
- Sedimentology
- Geochemistry
- Casting for storage
- Thin section production :-D
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Geoarchaeological reference collections
A large and easily accessible collection of comparative material. It contains among others
- Micromorphological thin section collection
- Trampling
- Coprolites
- and much more.
- Geoarchaeological rock & building material collection
- Mortar
- Sandstone
- and much more.
Archaeozoological reference collections
Large and easily accessible collections of reference skeletons. They include among others:
- Large animal collection
- Cattle (Bos taurus)
- Sheep/goat (Ovis aries/Capra hircus)
- Domestic/wild boar (Sus dom., Sus scorfa)
- Red deer (Cervus elaphus)
- and much more.
- Collection of small animals
- various Fish skeletons
- Amphibians
- and much more.
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Large animal collection
+41 61 207 42 44
Office OG 404
Fish, amphibians and small animals
+41 61 207 42 15
Office OG 105
Pratteln, Canton of Baselland Archaeology hand axe
Age: ~ 300'000 years
Place of discovery: Pratteln, Switzerland
Year of discovery: 1974
Height: 17.5 cm
A schoolboy found a flint object in the embankment of a ravine which, after various examinations and analyses, turned out to be a Paleolithic hand axe. The discovery of this all-purpose tool was the first evidence that Homo erectus had walked in the region.
Further information: http: //www.archaeologie.bl.ch/entdecken/fundstelle.php?fsid=4
3D model: Jan von Wartburg, Archaeology Canton of Baselland
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