ANT200H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Shovel Test Pit, Grid Systems Corporation, Total Station
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Different sites, arch contexts and questions require different excavation strategies. No substitute for field experience and the sooner you get some the better. Excavation is not random everything is planned many different techniques. Shovel test pit: this is somewhat of a testing method to see stratifications, just to see what needs to be done. Small test unit: is like the same as the shovel test pit. Datum points help control depth or thickness of where artifacts are found. Now niggas use gps and total station. Excavation gives us control of time and space. Helps us acquire most reliable evidence for the two main kinds of info: Human activities at a particular period in the past. Changes in those activities from period to period. Opening up large areas to reveal the horizontal extent of an arch deposit and the arrangement of objects within the deposit. May expose repeated reoccupation of a site.
