ANT200Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Giovanni Battista Belzoni, Pecos Classification, Jacques Boucher De Crèvecœur De Perthes

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Test: archaeological method and archaeological theory. Study guide on portal: short answer. Seriation: arranged or occurring in one or more series. Arrange items in a sequences according to prescribed criteria: look at various styles and we can see where we are in time, chazan thinks doesn"t work. Except for these grave stones in massachusetts. Design on top: death head winged cherubs willow tree and urns, more useful in past before newer dating process. Radiocarbon dating: carbon 14, cosmic radiation carbon joins with oxygen atoms, making c14, carbon exchange reservoir. Constant ratio between c14 and other carbon isotopes: half life of radiocarbon 5 730 years. From the point in time, when the organism is removed from the carbon exchange (ex: death of cow) reservoir, The concentration of carbon-14 begins to decay at the rate of 1% every 83 years, Or 50% every 5 730 years: context. Radiocarbon dating only matters if we have stratigraphic information.

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