ANTH 225 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Radiocarbon Dating, Paleoecology, Tectonic Uplift
15 Mar 2016
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Interdisciplinary approach to the study of early hominins. Reconstruct paleoecology (environment: recreating the past environments that we think that our hominin ancestors lived in, can inform us about behavior of our hominin ancestors and also possibly reasons for evolution. Resolve questions of time/date: time and date associated with all of our sites and these remains, puts them in context. Recover remains of early hominins: fossilization, all the information you collect at a site and just as important and the homins themselves. Archaeology is not what you find but what you find out. Walk over survey: looking for geological disturbances and other indicators of a site. Simple random sampling: done after survey, how far the sight stretches in an area. Stratified random sampling: tell how far down sites are located and the stratigraphy. Grid system: we can convey measurements of artifacts/bones in a site and used in reconstruction. Immediate burial (need this in order for fossilization to start taking place)
