AR101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Parks Canada, Mortimer Wheeler, Beehive
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Grubenhaus (house with sunken floor level) (cid:224) mellaart conducted a horizontal and vertical investigations at catalhoyuk in 1960 tried to go as deep as he could: step trenching, like huge stairs shows the depth of different parts, walls won"t cave in, con: something might be buried in one of the steps further down and you might miss it if you move over and dig deeper, cofferdam. Basic principles of archaeology: archaeological strata refers to the accumulation of natural and cultural debris in successive layers (cid:224) see the different layers due to the different colours (cid:224) sometimes when putting a walkway down there will be a layer of (cid:224) each layer represents a distinct, laws of stratigraphy (cid:224) vertical section/profile shows the accumulated layers creating a sequence that tells a story the depth/length of occupation and all the different activities that happened over time for that to happen.
