ARKY 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Paleobotany, Zooarchaeology, Pastoralism
4 Apr 2016
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Archaeology 1000: midterm #2 study guide (chapters 4-7) Bce = bc, ce = ad, bp = before present (1950) Relative dating: strategy involving dating objects relative to others. Stratigraphy: further down is the oldest; layers based on the soil. Index fossils: remains of an organism that lived in a particular geologic age, used to identify/date rock and rock layers in which it is found. Dating bone deposits: measures nitrogen, luorine, and uranium content of bones; used to determine if bones found together date to same time. Piltdown man: skull was a missing link until proven as orangutan and human from middle-ages. Typology: (relative dating) linking objects together based on time, shape, style, and technology. Seriation: method of chronological typology used to organize artifacts based on their changes throughout time. Two types: contextual seriation: links objects to one another based on changes over time, frequency seriation: popularity and use of objects over time.
