Accompanying find
Archaeologists and paleoanthropologists refer to those artefacts or fossils that are made in connection with important finds and often only enable their precise dating without their meaning coming close to that of the main find as accompanying finds or additional finds . The division into "main find" and "accompanying find" is therefore largely subjective.
The minimum age of the Nebra Sky Disc , for example, could only be narrowed down on the basis of accompanying finds: the swords that were sunk in a hoard together with the disc .
Particularly relevant accompanying finds are the so-called key fossils in prehistoric excavations . Also, habitat and way of life, for example by early representatives of Hominini - such as Ardipithecus ramidus , or Sahelanthropus - are not derived solely from bones found, but only from the accompanying finds other fossil plant and animal species.
Incidentally obtained information in the course of police investigations is also referred to as an accompanying find. In medicine, however, incidentally discovered medically relevant facts are referred to as secondary findings .
See also
Individual evidence
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↑ Beaked jug and accompanying find. Example of the categorization of an archaeological find from Iffezheim. On: prometheus.uni-koeln.de
The accompanying finds. Extract from a Swiss archaeological study - ^ Nicola Lindner: The accompanying find. Regarding the limits of criminal procedural information exploitation of information obtained casually in the context of preventive police activity. Duncker & Humblot, 1998, ISBN 978-3-428-09586-5