Lecture 3

Question 1

Excavation considerations what are they:

Answer 1

-Preservation
-Depth of site
-Time
-$$$$
-Acessibility
-research questions

Question 2

Test excavation to horizontal excavation

Answer 2

-Test excavation
-establish a grid (XYZ) right triangle
-datum point-reference point using the line

Question 3

Vertical excavation

Answer 3

Digging down like in Minecraft

Question 4

What’s Provenience

Answer 4

Where something was originated
Finding items from their original position by artifacts and sites

Question 5

Measuring point provenience and what’s the difference between vertical excavation and horizontal?

Answer 5

Everything you measure is related to a datapoint
Vertical excavation:trenches or test pits are used to determine the depth of the time scale
Horizontal: study large scale regional areas and are not as deep as vertical excavations

-law of superposition
-restricted to one layer

from main datum
From local datum

Question 6

What does screening mean?

Answer 6

Catches important things you will miss
Water screening: very small
-hard to see
-muddy conditions

Question 7

Cultural depositional processes

Answer 7

Discard- breaks or wears out and is discarded
Loss-inadvertently lost
Caching-stored
Ritual internment
Placing corpse in the grave

Question 8

Other cultural processes

Answer 8

Mess Verde, SW Colorado
Human behaviors that modify artifacts and archaeological sites
-digging pits
-hearths
-highways and canals
-tourism
-development
-warfare and terrorism
Recycling and reuse

Question 9

What are the hazards of field work

Answer 9

-Disease
-Exposure
-Wildlife encounters
-Difficult terrain
-Field living
-Natural disasters

Question 10

What does floraturbation mean

Answer 10

Soil bioturbation caused by the growing of roots and plants

Question 11

Processes in the systematic context

Answer 11

-systematic context
-formation processes