ANTHR101 Lecture Notes - Redone
24 Apr 2013
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Context in archeology helps determine what objects are, what they were used for, by who, and how. Site: a place where you find evidence of human occupation. Locality: is where you find fossils of these individuals. Record everything (otherwise it"s difficult to interpret what was found) Items are coming up to the surface through ground erosion. Looking for evidence that there may be something worth digging up (i. e. a camp or settlement) Advantage is to find tiny things and make a judgement whether it"s worth excavating. Not searching for tiny objects but rather much larger signs and evidence of human occupation. Is the evidence that past buildings have left on the surface. Crop marks: different vegetation grows on top of the surface. Soil marks: the different colors of the soil due to a different ph balance.
