ANTHR101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Ground-Penetrating Radar, Aerial Photography, Cropmark
17 Jan 2018
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Reconstruct past lifeways; tell how they lived not just where. How to find sites (places to find evidence of human occupation) or localites (places where human remains are found) Surface survey; there are other sites nearby-clues that there might be more. Most important and basic form, find objects on the surface and/or close to the surface of an area. People line up and walk slowly across pieces of land. Objects on the surface got there from glaciers, geological activity (earthquakes, floods, etc), and erosion. Aerial photographs and satellite images; cover much larger areas, quicker form, see things you cannot see from the ground, formations that are not natural (manmade) Soilmarks and cropmarks; something buried close to the surface of the soil that leaves a mark where vegetation does not grow and changes the colour of the soil so that it is visible (old foundations of houses, etc. )
