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22 Cards in this Set
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Archeological Stratufication |
Digging down by layer. Numbering the layers in a common sense manner so as not to ruin the site. |
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Excavation by artificial (arbitrary) layers |
Mistake. Create your own layers no matter what your digging through. Just an easy way to tell an ignorant helper to 'go dig there' |
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Archeological Strata |
A unit. Items. Different archeological facts. Human or natural action |
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Law of Horizontal Deposition |
Most things get covered in a horizontal fashion, which is why digging down horizontally is best. |
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Law of Association |
Items in the same stratigraphic layer are associated. |
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Law of Superposition |
Older layers are deeper down |
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Absolute Date |
Determining the date of an item by a fixed calendar system |
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Relative Date |
Determining their creation time in reference to something else. Earlier, later, or more recent. |
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Measuring Time: eras used! |
BCE and CE. Before Common Era. common Era. |
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Prehistoric/Historical Archeology |
Finds Before written time. History After written time |
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Archeological method (theory) |
Question, field discovery, research method. |
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5 Ages |
Age of Gold. Age of Silver. Age of Bronze. Age of Heroes. Age of Iron. |
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Artifacts |
Objects made or modified by people |
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Ecofacts |
Organic and environmental remains |
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Features |
Non portable artifacts |
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Primary and secondary context |
Original context find and shifted or altered context |
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Cultural and natural formation |
Deliberate by humans. Natural environment. |
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The 4 Major activities to create artifacts |
Acquisition of raw material, manufacture, use, disposal. |
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Different ways Organic material is preserved |
Lack of oxygen areas. Ice. Cave. Etc. |
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Ground survey and aerial sruvey |
On the ground vs photographs and satellite in the sky |
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Systematic vs unsystematic survey |
Keeping track on a map or something and walking around all Willy nilly |
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Trabsects |
Grid like mapping |
