AR101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Matagorda Bay, Koster Site, Underwater Archaeology
9 Nov 2016
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Excavation for horizontal and vertical control: excavation is the central role in fieldwork. Identifies human activities at a certain period of time and changes in the activities from period to period: costly and destructive. Open area excavation for better recognition of spatial patterning over large areas: stratigraphy is recorded as excavation occurs and later constructed, best for single component sites that are relatively shallow. Wheeler box grid provide a record of stratigraphy: allows layers to be traced and correlated across the site, developed from pitt rivers work, satisfies both vertical and horizontal methods. Step trenching is a way to estimate the site: used effectively at the koster site in illinois. Cofferdam, matagorda bay to be specific where archeologists dig through the wreck. Recording evidence is investigation that carries through full excavation: observations and descriptions are usually recorded on journals, recording finds are documented in situ using photography where it was placed without being tampered with.
