CLCV 1008 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Crosby Garrett Helmet, Ground-Penetrating Radar, Cedar Wood

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Classical Civilization
• Course: CLCV 1008
• Professor: Goodfellow Marianne S.

Document Summary

First stage of ieldwork: to ind and record sites and features. Next stage: to make some assessment of the site, size, type and layout. Surface and subsurface methods to assess a site. Site surface survey: to ascertain the distribuion of features and record and collect arifacts on the surface. Teoihuacan mapping project: an example of the combinaion of tradiional surface surveys and with mulidisciplinary approach. Feature: non portable arifact (made by man but can"t be taken away) Largest and most powerful aztec urban centre in mesoamerica. Assessing the layout of sites and features (93-103) Miniature camera probes (e. g. boat pits beside the great pyramid of khufu) Probes and test pits involve some degree of disturbance of the site. Ground-based or geophysical remote sensing techniques are non-destrucive. The reassembly of the cedar wood boat of khufu. Found 1000 pieces of the boat( had been dissaembled and buried and happened to be preserved due to dryness)