ANT200H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Pure Data, Excavata, Inductive Reasoning
Document Summary
The ones that are discovered are sometimes not fully excavated or investigated (budget and time constraints). Archaeologists prefer to collect only a sample of the available arch data (in doing so, later researchers and archaeologists can return to the site with better technology and find new shit and refine past interpretations) Need to think about sampling strategy even before you go to the site. How well does the sample represent the whole. Sampling: predicting the whole based on a part. Any data/context we assign to an object, is already partially influenced by past knowledge/data/and own ideas. Objects become data in the process of arch research. Modern arch research builds a plan long before the field work begins. Come to a conclusion based on what you found. No question in mind . may lead to overlooking info/objects/or data. Use all the objects they found and come up with a general conclusion for the site.
