ARCS1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Grave Goods, Kathleen Kenyon, Surface 2
31 Jul 2018
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How do we find sites: may be indicated by a number of different features that indicate subsurface deposits (i. e. unnatural landform features- manmade, presence of cultural material on the ground surface, changes in vegetation. Sampling: unless you are able to survey 100% of the study area, you need to choose areas to be looked at: Sample units: the "shape" of the area/s you will survey. Sampling method: the way you choose which units to survey. Sample size: the number of separate units that are surveyed. Sampling methods: non-probabilistic: non representative of the whole; intuitive and inductive. Purposeful/judgemental: probabilistic: improves the probability that generalisations made from the sample will be correct. Purposeful (non-probabilistic) sampling: explicit selection of areas suited to answering a specific question, advantage: those areas more likely to contain sites can be targeted and others avoided, disadvantage: will not give you a representative sample of human behaviour. Probabilistic sampling: random: statistically random choice of units.
