Anthropology 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Little Salt Spring, Underwater Archaeology, Mesh Networking
16 Apr 2014
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Underwater archaeology: sometimes conducted on shipwrecks, excavation is difficult because of the water, expensive because of the type of equipment used, suction hoses raise sediments, very few vessels are raised and so drawings and scales are produced. Little salt spring, florida: natural sink hold that is spring fed, ppl always throwing garbage into it b/c no disturbance in water, garbage tends to remain the same. Positioning a plexiglas video square: make 1 m square. Mosaic get a mosaic distribution of the artifacts in each 1m square. Flotation: technique for recovering small charcoal, seeds, or animal bones for ex. Inside is a basked that has a screen. There is a spout at the top that directs the water coming out. A bucket hangs out at the end of the spout. The box with the mesh/net where they shake all the sand out so objects remain. 1st step clean the artifacts you excavated.
