Romana Haider
ANTH 1400: Digging the Past
Chapter three
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Archaeologists are known for finding the excavating sites because through excavating archaeologists find out important information about the past. Before any field work can begin for an archeologist, he or she must first make a plan. This is called a research design. This design has four components. The first one is called formulation of research strategy, second one is collecting and recording of evidence, third processing and analysis evidence and the last one is publication. In chapter 3 they will be discussing the second component of the research design. In the textbook they used three methods to locate sites using ground reconnaissance. First one is documentary sources, then cultural/resource management and lately reconnaissance survey. The first one is used to locating recent sites, second one is sites that will be destroyed I believe. They locate record and excavate before it is destroyed. And the last one, this can be either unsystematic, where you can search anywhere on the site or systematic where there area is like a grid and you have one square to do your findings in. After that the textbook start talking about aerial reconnaissance. In aerial reconnaissance there are three subtopics. …show more content…
Why archeologists do excavations? Well, some of the main reason is because they are interested in the past. Not like historians. They are interested what type of activities they did in the past. What types of tools did they use and much more. When archaeologists excavate, they dig through the soil layers formed by people's activities. They also study the changes that occurred through the time period. I find this part of the chapter really interesting because first the archaeologists have to find a site, which should be discovered by mapping, you need to know everything about your site. Through digging the archaeologists understands the past and