ANTA01H3 Lecture 4: Introduction to Anthropolog Lecture 4 Notes
19 Oct 2016
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Introduction to anthropology - lecture 4 notes - chapter 7&8. Provides an actual chronological age, usually with an error or range, for an object or a part of a site. You get a numerical date for the site and that date usually comes with some error. Method that provides a relative order of materials or sites. The study of sequential layering of rock deposits. Based on the principle of super positioning: whatever the layers are on the bottom part of the sequence will be older, and the ones on the top part will be newer. (useful when discovering fossils- for date determination) Can have a geological origin (plate tectonics, movement of the earth)- can cause the folding over of rocks which can lead to older pieces of rock seeming new. Can have an anthropological origin- humans can be disturbing the layering of deposition. (archaeologists see this a lot).
