ANTH 9 Lecture 24: Anth 9 - Lecture 24

• School: Irvine Valley College
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 9
• Professor: Clifford

Document Summary

Principal topics: research design, how are sited located, sampling, excavation, underwater archaeology. The key issue is why the work is being done (the research question). It is not how it will be done (techniques). Steps to take: identification of research question, specification of important variables and the relationships among them, kinds and amounts of materials (data, sampling strategies, recording methods, analytical techniques. Archaeologists often walk plowed fields to find sites. Put down pin flags when they find something. It"s the clusters of pin flags that they focus on. These items are what archaeologists look for when searching for sites in the eastern. Dark areas of organic-rich and debris-laden middens, black earth, il: you can see pattern better from the air. Stonehenge in southern england was the first site photographed from the air, in 1906 from a balloon. Ask local informants where sites are located: doesn"t happen as much as they should, archaeologists think they know more than the locals.