ARH312Y1 Lecture 8: ARH312 2nd Sem Lecture 8
Document Summary
Relative chronology: dating in relation to other objects, no calendar date, typology as a method of chronology. Typology = a classification scheme for organizing artifacts, the creation of type based on artifact attributes. Seriation: putting archaeological units, features, or artifacts into a relative sequence. Comparing artifact types: putting artifacts into their proper chronological order determined through similarities or differences, ordered along a single dimension time. Historical continuity the more similar two objects are, the greater the odds they were created or used at roughly the same time. Heritable continuity descent with modification; similarity in forms is the result of transmission or heritability. Sir william flinders petrie: the father of archaeological seriation (1853-1942, created sequence dates for pottery assemblages from predynastic egyptian cemeteries, ordering assemblages based on sets of pots from different graves. Occurrence seriation: based on the presence (1) or absence (0) of types.
