ANTH 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Ground-Penetrating Radar, Landscape Archaeology, Paleoethnobotany
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Pre-ceramic area lots of i forget look in the video. Best time to do a survey right after it rains. Resistivity finding specific material with the flow of electric. Magnetometry work with magnometers, survey landscapes searching for metals (bullets, arrowheads, etc. ) Underground features often easier to see from air. Could show you features that no longer exist today. Relation to uconn: survery mayan sites in the yucatan peninsula, mexico. Using satellite imagery from current time and older images to come to conclusions about cultures and settlements. Bolded are the ones represented in our department. Vertical emphasis: examine multiple periods of use/occupation, reveals stratification who were the earliest settlers, do we see change over time, investigate change through time, often limited sample for excavated for each stratigraphic phase. Limited examination of change: stratigraphy: layers of cultural and natural materials accumulate one on top of another (law of superposition).
