ANT200H5 Lecture : ANT200 (Sept 22).docx
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Topic 3: data collection: survey, reconnanaissance, mapping, excavation, test. Full scale excavation: excavation tools and techniques: trowel and screen. Marshalltown back in the 1950s was known to make perfect trowels; pointing trowels, margin trowels, trowels with archaeology holsters: flotation: fine grain data recovery. Getting things that can be seen by the naked eye. Provenience control (important to be established, if lost the provenience of artifact, then it is rendered useless: bearing distance. Lay out squares and label it, best way is to use a cartesian system (x-y: triangulation. Record keeping: e. g. recording settlement data; each team member may have a log book, post moulds and features.
