ANT101H5 Lecture : lecture 02

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Survey, to look for: isolated artifacts on the ground surface, changes in soil/vegetation, geological formations (caves, lakes, rivers, documents, maps, folklore, natural agents, e. g. soil erosion, by accident during another human activity, e. g. widening of transcanada highway. Survey: a systematic non-intrusive investigation of a specified area for archaeological remains. Nazca lines, peru: spider line (long white straight lines) An area which contains the remains of human activity. Ex: head-smashed-in buffalo jump, alberta (kill and hunt site) also cemetery, dump sites, rel. An area which contains fossils. examples: zhoukoudian, china, olduvai gorge, tanzania. Finding fossil localities: good knowledge of geology, find conditions favourable for preservation, such as volcanic ash, limestone. The location of an artifact or feature within a site. The law of association: objects found in the same archaeological layer under conditions where its is clear that they were deposited at the same time, must all date from the same time.

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