ANTHROP 2PA3 Chapter Notes - Chapter Reading 5: Archaeological Culture, Toponymy, Systematic Sampling
4 Dec 2017
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Ground reconnaissance: a variety of methods for identifying archeological sites including: (a) consultation od documentary sources (b) place-name evidence (ex. Biblical archeology) (c) local folklore and legend (d) fieldwork. Sampling strategies: where only a representative part of an area is actually searched; often to save time and money, random sampling: plots are chosen based on a table of randomly selected numbers. Nature of random numbers and their clustering is inherently biased: strati ed random sampling: regions are subdivided into zones which are then randomly sampled in proportion to their overall size (ex. Site surface survey: the study of the distribution of surviving features at a site and the recording and collecting of artifacts from the surface, quantitative bias in favour of the most recent periods on the surface. Although surface nds often contradict this and contain materials from varying periods.
