ARCH 100 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Radiocarbon Dating, Paleobotany, Sedimentology

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Archaeology
• Course: ARCH 100
• Professor: Ross Jamieson

Document Summary

Protecting, rather than looting, peoples" heritage: americanist anthropology. Connections to many of the sciences, social sciences, & humanities. Modern archaeology is interdisciplinary: archaeology as anthropology. Study of culture: historians study past societies with written texts. Archaeologists study the material past (tangible remains architecture, etc). Isotopic decay such as radiocarbon (physics) & tree rings (botany/climatology). Trace elements (physics) & stylistic analysis such as things vary in their styles time by time (anthropology, art history): dietary reconstruction. Seeds (paleobotany) & bones (biology, animal behavior, etc: climatological reconstruction. Glacial varves (geography, climatology) & sedimentology (geology, earth sciences): archaeological survey: to map the physical remains of human activity. It must take into consideration geological factors that affect the preservation & viability of sites: remote sensing: including aerial & satellite photography. Discovering sites & in orienting exploration: geophysical techniques: used to gain an idea of what lies below the surface of a site w/o having to excavate.