Anthropology 2229F/G Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Global Positioning System, Universal Transverse Mercator Coordinate System, Electrical Resistance And Conductance
25 Jan 2018
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Anthro 2229 chapter 3 doing fieldwork: surveying for archaeological sites notes in textbook. Thursday, january 25, 2018 doing archaeology - on surveys. Eldwork is the reason many archaeologists started doing archaeology in the rst place. Many like the pyramids have been known about for ages while others have been passed down through oral and written traditions. Other times sites are deliberately discovered in large-scale systematic surveys. Others found by accident, hard work or luck. Gumshoe survey refers to pure old happenstance, hard work and luck. The authors found the gatecliff shelter in nevada through talking to people. They nally discovered it the next summer. Found paintings on wall and debris from resharpening stone knives or projectile points. They decided to dig and found the rockshelter to be 12 meters deep, making it one of biggest in the americas. And the strata was layered not jumbled up like most. A 7000r year record of human activity and environmental change.
