Stratigraphy

During the invasive stage of an archaeological investigation, both professions apply archaeological theories and techniques, which includes anything from understanding depositional relationships to stratigraphy. What can set forensic archaeology apart in this stage of work though is the necessity of flexibility in applying archaeological techniques to body recovery. One example in which flexibility becomes more pertinent in a forensic investigation is in the case where a girl’s body had to be…

Introduction Beach morphology is a key factor in helping determine the sediment interaction between not only the ocean but the surrounding environment as well. On September 23rd, 2016 at 1500-1645 hours’ group 3 of MSCI 112 collected local data of the morphology of Myrtle Beach State Park, SC, US. With the help of the data collected on site as well as the data collected in the lab our main objective is to able to learn more about the impact on the beach as well as the interactions it has with…

Lake George is an Endorheic lake, as it has no outflow of water to rivers and oceans. The lake is believed to be more than a million years old. Originally, small streams drained its catchment into the Yass River, but then the Lake George Escarpment rose due to major crustal movement along a strong fault line, blocking this drainage and forming the lake.[1] Lake George has in previous Ice Ages been much larger and deeper.[citation needed] The thickness of sediment beneath the lake exceeds 250…

and their location including scale to size. Features or non-portable items and their locations at the scene are documented by scale drawings.Anyone involved in the process or at the crime scene coming or going are also well documented. 3. Soil Stratigraphy was present in the case, which often can suggest to a forensic anthropologist and archaeologist how long the body has been there. In the previous case this was a surface layer search, however by the time this case took place, a natural layer…

determined that there were five different cultural periods including the Selkirk, Manitoba, Nutimik, Anderson, and Larter. In comparison to the other sites that MacNeish excavated, Lockport had the greatest level of preservation and the most apparent stratigraphy. The MacNeish excavation found many artifacts including, but not limited to, ceramics, scrapers, projectile points, an awl, bone tools, scapula hoes, grinding stones, a biface, a flake knife, as well as multiple hearths. Buchner worked…

observe them. Many of the layers contain fossils that have been dated to certain prehistoric periods; this allows us to apply a time scale to the deposition and construction of these layers. We can use the principles of geology and the principles of stratigraphy to explain the geological reasoning behind each episode that lead to the formation of the rock units in the strata. Using these elements we can construct a comprehensive geological outline of the layers of Vicunia. By the reasoning of…

Consequently, he deserves credit for being one of the first archaeologists to understand the value of pottery by sequencing, and dating pottery shreds where he compared them in succession to other shreds. At Troy, Schliemann also developed a type of stratigraphy, whereby layers of a site are carefully dated one by one. It was also said that despite his unorthodox style of excavation, many agree that Schliemann laid the foundations which his successors built…

events, and the rocks they leave behind in a sequence. A geological event is basically a severe natural event that happens in the crust of earth that is normally harmful like an earthquake or a volcano . The method of reading the order is called stratigraphy…

Although only some of the structures have been fully excavated, it is estimated that about 20 stone structures exist on the plateau. (Fig. 1) According to Edward B. Banning, a Canadian archaeologist and anthropologist at the University of Toronto, the stratigraphy of the site is typically broken into three layers: Level III, Level IIB, and Level IIA. Level III, the oldest layer, dates from around 9600 B.C., and is believed to have been constructed before the invention of pottery. Most of the…

INTRODUCTION The Mississippian rocks of Kansas are regarded as the largest oil producing unit in the Midcontinent. These rocks have produced oil both at the top and within the sequence unit. The name “Chat” is given to these rocks because their high porosity and low resistivity characteristics (Rogers, 2001). Over 6000 well-logs such as neutron, density and resistivity have been studied in Kansas and result shows that the chat is everywhere but lack uniformity. Depositional and diagenetic…