ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Ground-Penetrating Radar, Archaeological Site, Aerial Survey
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Not all behavior will leave material traces. Record not usually direct reflection of the past: avoid the pompeii premise . Feature- non portable material remains resulting from human activity (ex. Archaeological site- place where evidence of past human activity. **artifact can enter record at any point/step. Soil chemistry: can destroy (acid) or preserve (fossilize) Disturbance of agricultural/industrial development: changes context of materials within archaeological site. Context- provenience and association of an artifact, feature, etc. in space and time. Primary context- when artifact found in same place as where left by people who made/used it. Secondary context- location and association altered, less info available. Look for sites, data on site size, distribution, number, and form. How found: chance/accident, documentary sources, salvage archaeology. Determined by industrial/urban dev plans or site destruction: archaeological survey. Survey of regions, reconstruction of settlement pattern= dist. of sites. Surface survey across landscape: most common, walk- looking for artifacts, aerial survey.
