ANTH100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Cleft Lip And Cleft Palate, Bone, Ancient Agora Of Athens

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH100
• Professor: Maria Liston

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Example, sites of kavousi, vronda and azoria. Allows you to create a map of points laid out in squares before you remove topsoil. You can dig your squares or use string to map them out. You keep all of this disturbed material. You can"t get a lot of cultural information from the topsoil. Fatigue becomes an issue in accuracy - this is why we use screening. Understanding how buildings fall apart, helps you to be able to excavate them. Put all of your soil through a screen. Even though you are digging carefully, you miss things. Screening helps identify tiny animals/organisms and their bones that are so small they are entirely missed during excavation. You can find animal bone, stone tools, pottery, and sea shells (limpets and top shells) during screening. You can eat what is found in those sea shells, but in this instance where they were found suggested that these shells attach themselves to seaweed.