ANT 304 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Birds Eye, Ground-Penetrating Radar, Remote Sensing
Document Summary
1st step - generate a research design. Survey - concerns methods used to identify and assess archaeological sites in a research area. Used because they are cheaper, quicker and give broader picture. Finding sites by accident - info/location comes from people not archaeologists. Look through documents and sources to check for previous information. Reconnaissance of sites from air - first used in 1913. Useful of recognition of archaeological features not seen from ground level. Oblique angles favor use of shadow and perspective. Bird"s eye creates a more accurate picture of the ground and gives the layout. Infrared - picks up temperature on ground. Lidar - laser beams - archaeological features that are under vegetation. Google earth - easy, cheap - varies in quality. Systematically - according to grid or transects. Identified on surface - shape and features. Looks at underground and gives broad picture. Acoustic - sound passes through area - echolocation.
