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15 Cards in this Set
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Artifacts |
Objects used, modified, or made by people |
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Ecofacts |
Organic environmental remains |
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Features |
Non-portabke objects i.e. fire pits, walls, wells |
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Sites |
Places where artifacts, features, etc. are found
Places where human activity has left a trace Forts, cities, cemeteries, sanctuaries |
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Walking survey |
People walk through sites to find artifacts, features, etc. to determine where to dig or study the landscape |
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Aerial survey |
Flying over sites to map large areas more quickly. Shows Shadows, soil marks, crop marks |
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Landscape archaeology looks at: |
Local history (wars) Environmental studies (sea level) Settlement patterns (housing) |
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Geophysical Survey |
In the forms of resistivity survey to tell what's under ground by it's electrical resistence, magnometer, and ground penetrating radar (most precise). |
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Contex |
Matrix: what's around the object Provenience: it's position vertically and horizontally Associatio: what's found with it |
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Coordinate grid |
Posts in the ground evenly spaced and mapped with string Squares are labeled Items in certain squares are labeled with that coordinate |
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Stratigraphy |
Analysis of the order and position of layers of archaeological remains The stuff found in the top most layer is newer than that in the bottom most layer |
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Absolute dates |
Historical dates written on the object or another similar object or a document of some sort. Physical dates tested by science like tree rings or carbon 14 |
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Relative dates |
Style- changes in the way certain things are made over time like coke bottles Stratigraphic- law of superposition |
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Tree-rings |
The amount of rings a tree has is how old it is. If a tree has 5,000 rings it was planted 5,000 years ago |
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Carbon 14 |
The process of using the carbon 14 isotope to get an accurate date on an artifact |
