ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Bipedalism, Ground-Penetrating Radar, Aerial Photography
10 Apr 2013
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Most societies have an interest in the past. Reconstruct and explain life ways in the past from material evidence. Goal study our changing biological and cultural diversity. Define sites differently, what they were doing in their daily lives. Looking at the debris and the garbage. Look at bones, and looking at what they ate. Enclosed type of space, and therefore different type of strategies. Archaeological survey: ground survey, looking through fields and seeing if there any thing on ground surface, aerial photography. Remote sensing: using technology (ground penetrating radar) A lot of time they are found by chance. Digging is destructive: any excavation is destructive. Rigorously controlled using standard procedures: when people come and read what you"ve done, they understand. Sampling- usually do not excavate the entire site: not enough funding, time, etc. Evidence/ artifacts are recorded, labelled, photographed, and mapped systematically. Excavation methods change depending on the site.
