ARCH 1030 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Ground-Penetrating Radar, Palaeoarchaeology, Soil Resistivity
25 Feb 2017
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Archaeology 1030
January 15th, 2013
The Material Record
• What is Material Culture?
o Artifacts
o Ecofacts
o Cultural Features
o Sites
• Artifacts
o Any object that was intentionally modified by humans
• Ecofacts
o Zooarchaeology
o Paleoarchaeology
• Cultural Features
o Non-portable items
• Sites
o Archaeological dig sites, information is recorded such as measuments and
locations
▪ Space—archaeological site
▪ Time
▪ Form
• Finding Archaeological Sites
o Archaeological Survey Methods
▪ Asking local informants
▪ Thinking about good locations to live: near water and a variety of
resources
o Aerial Photography
o Visible Sites
o Crop Marks (Buried Sites)
o Satellite Imaging
o Subsurface Testing
▪ Proton Magnetometry
▪ Soil Resistivity
▪ Ground Penetrating Radar
▪ Shovel Testing
• Proton Magnetometry
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