ANT-2221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Excavata, Mollusca, Invertebrate
Document Summary
Good archaeology research begins not with digging, but with questions and a carefully prepared research proposal (set of plans) How archaeology is done depends on: the reason for the work (crm, salvage, etc. , the environmental situation in which the work is to be conducted, and especially, the questions to be answered by the work! Components of a research proposal: questions, background research, methodology, personnel, considerations of collections management and disposition of human. Remains, etc: time frame, cost, publication/dissemination, question, what was the function of the biltmore mound, hypothesis: Sedimentology encompasses the study of modern sediments such as sand, silt, and clay, and the processes that result in their formation (erosion and weathering), transport, deposition and diagenesis: palynologist. Palynology is the study of plant pollen, spores and certain microscopic plankton organisms (collectively termed palynomorphs) in both living and fossil form: malacologist.
