ANT200H5 Lecture : ANT200 (Sept 20).docx
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Surface survey (key thing, still most common form of looking for sites, analog, lot of work, go out and look at surface of the ground or close to surface) Sampling (data universe exist, using certain data only because of time/money constraint) Take some parts of known sites, new sites and modern settlement samples. Test pitting (common in areas with some sort of cover on it, could be trees, pasture fields that cover the surface area aka dirt) Aerial photography (more systematic now with the technology we have) Infrared photography to see the soil levels difference. Remote sensing (gathering data without excavating because it"s expensive and time consuming, but very destructive) Ground penetrating radar (was developed for geology and physics: mapping. Magnetometer survey (based on a principle that different types of soil has different levels of magnetism. Test excavations: test nature and size of deposits, sampling (rarely site is completely excavated; if you can completely excavate a site, you destroyed it)
