The archaeologist and antiquarian Charles Boutell also makes this distinction.
While scholars and archaeologists have made great advances in the knowledge of Chinese bronzes, many mirrors continue to defy explanation.
But how do archaeologists make sense of these relics?
An archaeologist sitting on top of the greatest find that any archaeologist had ever made and not able to do a single thing about it.
She blushed, "You know, we archaeologists must make allowances for the site where we are working.
Conversely, archaeologists may make a distinction between material cultures that actually belonged to a single cultural group.
They could find the camp, make a surprise descent upon the archaeologist, a descent which the other might not be prepared to meet.
Within a 50-year period, paleontologists and archaeologists have made many discoveries due to the industrial development of the Eordaian countryside.
A forensic archaeologist might have made something of it, but he wasn't planning on calling one in.
Several archaeologists subsequently made the difficult journey, but they were unable to decide what the tower had been.