ANT 304 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Archaeological Culture, Stone Tool, Acheulean
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Test 1 notes chapters 1, 2, 3, and 4. Wednesday september 20th at 3pm (get there early) Chapter 1 pages 3-5: why archaeology is important. Most of humanity"s history is non-written either because writing wasn"t yet invented or oral traditions lived on: even written records are selective they don"t tell all. Archaeology lets us find data that we can compare to same and different time periods as well as geographical regions. Finding and recording sites: pedestrian survey: surveying the land by standing and moving equidistantly most common method of finding sites. Use shovel probe if there is vegetation. Easy in dry areas, in vegetated areas, they modify their surveys to include methods such as shovel probes. Excavating sites: potential buried deposits are located and one or more is picked according to the research design, set up a datum x, y, z spatial coordinates are used to set up a grid. Use compass, transit (telescope), and total station.
