ANTHR206 Study Guide - Final Guide: Radiocarbon Dating, Universal Transverse Mercator Coordinate System, Harris Matrix
1 Dec 2016
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Uncovering archaeological remains through removal of objects from soil/ other materials. Public, companies dedicated to fieldwork, less formal, limited by time. Legislation designed to guard and keep the past safe. Satellite images, google earth, pick out features that are important. Can be used to discover mounds, stone structures, eg. surveying and testing. Pedestrian surveying, actually going out and walking around. Critical when surveying for records, knowing where something was/can be found. West at 270 degrees and east at 90 degrees. Set 1 person at each point of base line, and then they walk, and stop at different points to sample in area that is being surveyed. Archaeological numbering system used in canada to track archaeological sites and the artifacts that come from them. Trenching (for large areas, run along transect line) Isolated pit (digging many small test pits over a large area in locations defined by random sampling) Trenching (digging long/narrow tranches that reveal vertical dimension and horizontal dimension)
