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 Archeology Glossary gives brief note or identification and differentiations to ancient words,event or other marks related with herbs and its relatives!

 
 Archaeology is the study of past human societies, primarily through the recovery and analysis of the material culture and environmental data which they have left behind, which includes artifacts, architecture, biofacts and cultural landscapes.

 
 The discipline involves surveyance, excavation and eventually analysis of data collected in order to learn more about the past. In broad scope, archaeology relies on cross-disciplinary research. It draws upon anthropology, history, art history, classics, ethnology, geography, geology,linguistics, physics, information sciences, chemistry, statistics, paleoecology, paleontology, paleozoology, paleoethnobotany, and paleobotany.

 
 Contents: bultu |

 bultu:means "which-restore-life","remedies" used by akkadian asû,drawn from all natural sources mostly plants,fresh or dried,whole or powdered,most frequently mixed to increase their effects; also the case with various mineral products,salts and stones,and animals(blood,flesh,bones,excreta).
  interminable catalogues of these drugs were drawn up,sometimes accompanied by useful data for identifying them,togethor with a mention of their specific use, in a variety of forms: after soaking or decoction in various liquids, in potions,lotions, ointments,poultices, packs, pills, suppositories,enemas and tampons or swabs.1

 Reference:
 1: see p.163~164,chapter 10,Magic and Medicine,from Everyday Life in Ancient Mesopotamia,by Jean Bottéro,translated by Antonia Nevill.Published by Johns Hopkins University Press,Baltimore,Maryland 21218-4363;Originally published as Initiation à l'Orient ancien,by Editions du Seuil,Paris.

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