ANTH 1120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Palaeography, Piltdown Man, Consilience
28 Oct 2016
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Anth 1120 lecture 2: tools of the trade. Relative dating: comparison of artifacts or sites to determine which is older or younger (e. g. piltdown man crania and teeth) Absolute dating: a precise technique that usually establishes a range of dates rather than a speci c date. Stratigraphy: the study of relative position of strata or layers of the earth. Stratigraphic observation: observing that different strata exist in geological cases, as formed by nature. Seriation: involves putting particular artifacts from a number of sites within a given cultural area into archaeological order, usually in a series of older-to-younger patterns. Earliest writing was found is mesopotamia 5500 bp. !1: palaeography is the study of old written material, dendrochronology: the highly specialized science of assigning calendar dates to annual growth rings in trees. 000 years. there are limitations on the young end of the scale. Consilience: agreement among a variety of different proofs that all point to the same conclusion.
