Week 1 Flashcards
Childe’s 10 Criteria for a city
- concentration of people in area
- social stratification
- most people farmers
- production of economic surplis
- writing used to record economic activity and events
- exact and predictive sciences, to forecast the weather for agricultrual production
- monumental public architecture
- figural art
- foreign trade
- residence-based group membership
Stratigraphy and the formation of tells
- basis in archaelofical analysis, explained by formation of tells, the hill like reamins of habitations
Seriation
arranging of items in an order or series, human made artifacts, based on style improvement
pottery is analyszed this way
ecofacts
natural, non man made objects like organic and inorganic remains
Survey
field walking, drones, investigate land without digging
used to figure out time period/what type of people
Excavation
uncovering buried material remains
stratigraphy
the study of strata (stratum=layer of soil)
see exactly where something is found and what is found around them
Our Lady of Sports
example of object with no context so info lost there
Relative Dating: stratigraphy
through layers of soil we can see relatively how the layers date (good approx range)
relative dating: typology
the study and sequencing of these types
type: a group of artifacts built around the same general model
non realism to realism KOUROI
Absolute dating: documentary material sources
inscriptions, clay tablets, wooden tablets, coins
helpful to find the year of which emperor was in power and you can count years of reign/when
absolute dating: known historical/environmental events
sites/objects can be more narrowly dated based on their connection to externally known datable information
Denarius Coin
reference to assasination of Julius Caesar
Scientific dating methods: radiocarbon dating (c14 dating)
dating based on the decay of the carbon 14 isotope
Dendrochronology
dating based on tree ring partners
