ANT101H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Dakhla Oasis, Relative Dating, Epiphyseal Plate
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Ethical issues in archaeology: conservation: many archaeological projects will not be accepted unless there is a large budget for the conservation of artifacts. Archaeological sites: the antiquities trade, indigenous peoples, gender. Study the human biological components of the archaeological record (use the slides to guide your reading, don"t memorize all of the methods) Attempting to nd leprosy in the dakhla oasis and this would have been evidence for leprosy in the old world. Relative dating: involves ordering artifacts into sequences relative to each other: stratigraphy. Artifacts are deposited into layers - strata. Law of superposition: one layer lies on top of the other, so that the layer at the bottom is the oldest (i. e. deposited rst: typological sequencing (cross dating) Similar artifacts are grouped together: seriation. Order artifact into a temporal series based on: Frequency of the attributes: fluorine, uranium & nitrogen dating (f. u. n. ): method for the relative dating of bones.
