U69 Anthro 190 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Bioturbation, Lee Rogers Berger, Taphonomy
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Lecture 5: how do archaeologists find sites? (survey) Aerial remote sensing - stuff like google earth. Usually dirt: color and texture of the soil tells you about where they were, what happened in the past. Excavation strategies: natural vs arbitrary strata, natural - following the natural stratigraphy. 0 is the earliest stage: arbitrary - human made. Bioturbation and other mixing: definition, can be trees or tree roots ix. Missed something here - provenience - where things are placed in space: horizontal dimension - x, y xi. xii. Find a lot of these with this site: temporal sequences. They were able to make this chart of when all these face caches were placed there. Every 20 years, they had a different face cache: residential groups. They are commemorating every 20 years, some kind of celebration. They had these kind of ritual events as well.
