ANT200Y1 Lecture Notes - Aerial Photography, Layer Cake, Geographic Information System
Document Summary
The most important things that archaeologists do is keep track of space. And then they use space to learn about time. Software that allows you to control spatial data, and correlate spatial date. We"re not just marking one site, but hundreds or even thousands of site locations. It lets you take different layers, topographical, hydrological, geological, road system, aerial photograph, and lay them on top of each other and interact them. You can translate data into 3 dimensional models, and do predictive modeling. Many archaeologists are academics, but a lot work in business, in cultural resource management. They work to preserve sites that might be affected by construction and development. It mostly consists of walking around and looking for shit. Surveys are usually done more in open landscapes. You don"t want to do it in winter and growing seasons, but you do want to do it when the fields have been tilled and after rain.
