ANTH 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Brunton Compass, Lidar, Gordon Willey
19 Mar 2016
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Reconnaissance as a preliminary form of exploration, unsystematic study of the landscape to identify archaeological features. Reconnaissance can be done by an individual or a small group, on foot or by car. Covering a large area in a short period of time (getting a sense of possibilities for potential research). Form of intervention (during construction to see if there may be ruins). Field survey - method used to collect information about the location, distribution and organization of past human activities through the distribution of material remains over a large area. The point of a survey is to note signs of human activity in the past through the presence of artifacts, pottery, stone tools, architectural remains. The most frequent remains is garbage, detriments of past human activities. It hints that there are more occupational remains below or around that area. Common artefacts: pottery sherds (ceramics), stone tools (lithic), animal bone (faunal remains - products of butchering activities, food consumption)
