ANTH 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Total Station, Kalasasaya, Pikillaqta
18 Dec 2017
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Research methods: reconnaissance and survey, settlement patterns, site-focused research: mapping, excavations and material analyses. Pedestrian survey method most commonly used to make settlement patterns. Aerial photography, satellite images help give overview of sites to distinguish various features. Consulting with local informants, books and codices is helpful for the long-term success of your project. Valuable information, particularly in rural areas where farmers are familiar with the landscape. Illustrations can be very useful because they show a time before destruction. Often you need local permission to photograph and excavate their land anyways. A settlement pattern refers to the distribution of archaeological sites over the landscape. Research method first developed by the harvard archaeologist gordon willey in the. 1950"s during a survey of the viru valley on the north coast of peru. Chronology: when were these sites in use. Gives a good indication of when people inhabited the site. Two settlement pattern maps (200 bc 100 ad and 100 700 ad)
