ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Archaeological Site, Human Events, Lascaux
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**artifacts can enter the arch record at any part in this process. Fieldwork: survey and excavation, survey, the systematic search for arch sites, yields data on site size, distribution, number form, yields data on local ecological zones and geographic features, how sites found. Chance or accident: e. g. cave paintings in lascaux, ice man, use of documentary sources, e. g. Excavation: site evaluation, once site found, you must determine size, type, layout, produce accurate maps, plot surface artifacts and ecofacts, subsurface testing. Screening (sifting: critically important to recover full range of material, flotation- special type of screening - materials lighter than water are collected from surface. Dating methods: bc (before christ) = bce (before the common era, ad = anno domini = ce (common era) *bp (before present- often used with radiocarbon dating)- always 1950, counting back from 1950s: dating - primary objective of arch - nothing else is possible without it, direct dating- analysis of object itself.
