ANT200Y1 Lecture Notes - Geologic Time Scale, Digital Elevation Model, Global Positioning System
Document Summary
Software packages that allow us to control and correlate tracking data. Stretch them out and sit on top of the other. Massively useful for the management of information. Can translate this into 3 dimensional models. Different depending on site: could be grassy or more difficult. To make sure you"re not going to destroy anything. Set up for excavation: find patterns. Method of research in and of itself. Can learn things that we can"t learn from excavation. Patterning of how people use the landscape. Ex: hunter gatherer: base camp central, radiate out for tasks, seasonal camps in a rotation. What can we predict: may find specialized camp, redundancy in seasonal camps, might not find that by excavating one camp but by survey. Ex: urban societies: urban centre with towns and then villages encircling it. Argument: not enough to just look at the urban centre but how it sits in the rest of the area. How society organizes space: the pub effect.
