ARCS1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Pewter, Luminescence, Titanite
31 Jul 2018
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Arranges objects/sites/events in chronological sequence from earliest to latest (does not indicate age in calendar years: absolute (chronometric) Specifies the age of objects, or the date of events, in calendar years- more exact. Three age system: christian thomsen, objects labelled by types that varied in frequency over time. Stone age: weapons & implements made of stone, wood, bone little or no use of metals: bronze age: weapons & cutting implements made of copper or bronze little or no use of iron. 3rd & last period iron employed as a substitute for bronze. Suggested intermediate category- mesolithic (middle stone age: contained tools less crude that palaeolithic but not as refined as neolithic, edouard lartet, divided palaeolithic into 3 phases, upper palaeolithic. Reindeer: 45,000 10,000 bp: middle palaeolithic- cave bear / mammoth: 300,000 30,000 bp. Lower palaeolithic- hippopotamus: 2. 5 million 100,000 bp.
