ANTH 2303 Lecture 18: 10-17-2016
7 Feb 2017
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Specialized artifact recovery techniques and archaeological dating techniques. The larger the artifact is, the fewer there will be on a site; the smaller an artifact is, the more of it there will be in the site. Deposits are screened for artifacts: fill and rubble, however, should not be screened. Soil samples can be taken for: pollen, phylolithics, ph soil acidity, soil texture. Artifacts and size: larger artifacts (1mm-6mm screen size) are macro, then come micro artifacts, then there is information at the atomic level (ph, then comes the subatomic. Relative dating sites are dated relative to age but the age isn"t known, a site/strata can be older or younger than another but you don"t know by how much. Chronometric dating in this method an actual age is obtained but it is only a statistical approximation.
