CAS AR 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Flinders Petrie, Spontaneous Fission, Carbon Cycle

• School: Boston University
• Department: Archaeology
• Course: CAS AR 101
• Professor: Robert Murowchick

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~mortimer wheeler"s drawing of section of excavation into an indus valley tell (mound) site. Harris matrix: allows one to compare strata within a site. A given period and place generally has a recognizable style (like an objects shape and decoration) Style normally changes through time, like goes with like (the rate of change is not stationary, some change really fast or slow) Understanding rate of change requires some absolute dates. Rate pf change varies by artifact form/function can change slowly but decoration can change quickly formal attributes: its function, does it need to be a cooking or storage vessel? stylistic attributes: preference of person making it, can change quickly. There can be regional differences, a way to define cultures. They can be sued to create a sequence of change seriation: putting things in order by style, known as typology. Type of relative chronology but does give exact date. Sir william matthew flinders petrie > seriation of predynastic egyptian ceramics in.