ANTA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Ground-Penetrating Radar, Absolute Dating, Osteology
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Methods of studying the past: where survey and sampling, what- archaeological recovery, when****- relative and absolute dating, how-theoretical approaches and environment and diet, who-burial context and osteological methods, why. Where did people live: archaeological sites (localities) Where people lived or carried activities: artefacts. Ecological debris such as animal or bone. Anything made of wood or bamboo is hard to find: features. Sources of firewood, clay, water, iron ore: local and oral histories. Troy in turkey was discovered when heinrich asked around for ancient areas. 6 layers of cities before he could prove a burnt city was buried: field survey. Informs us on where to look and where not to. What materials were left behind: careful excavation. Spatial contexts/associations (record in detail where we find artifact to identify which layer it came from) Sieved sorted to find extremely tiny artifacts (jewels) When did human activities occur: relative dating methods.
