ANTA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Landscape Archaeology, Archaeological Site, Midden
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Provides a relative ordering of material or sites. Stratigraphy: (cid:862)study of sequential layering of deposits(cid:863) Principle of super positioning (cid:862)the lo(cid:449)er layers (cid:449)ere deposited (cid:271)efore the upper layers(cid:863) Stratigraphic column: (cid:862)sho(cid:449)i(cid:374)g the relati(cid:448)e positio(cid:374)s of layers at a lo(cid:272)ality(cid:863) Physical correlation: linking of geological layers (strata) based on their physical characteristics. 65 million years ago and rock hit earth and spread iridium everywhere. The law of faunal succession: strata that contain fossils of the same animals are of the same age, makes use of index fossils, (cid:862)fossil remains of known age(cid:863) Estimates the age of artifacts and features based on their similarities with comparable materials from dated contexts. Provides an actual chronological age, usually with an error range. Willard f. libby: father of the radio revolution, winner of the nobel prize in 1960, studied radioactivity. Isotopes: atoms that have the same number of protons but different numbers of neutrons, carbon has 3 isotopes, c12, c13, c14.
