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-archeos: "ancient"
-logos: "knowledge" or "study"
archaeology: study of the past |
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| reasoning from the general to the particular |
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building blocks or arch.
-made by humans/used by humans
-teaches about past surroundings |
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archaeologists not playing with full deck
-non-organic survives better than organic |
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| sex, age, reasons of death, nutrition |
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| paleobotany (paleothnobotany) |
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| study of prehistoric plants |
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| -types of plants in weather |
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measurement of the past
-date the past |
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| Obsidian from Franchthi Caves |
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lead isotope analysis
-trade in metals (melos) |
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-mound of many cities
tell: arabic
tel: hebrew |
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-water
-defensible position
-arable land
-trade routes |
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| solid unweathered rock lying beneath surface of deposits of soil |
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-prevents mudbricks from melting down
-"foundation of the house"
-supports a wall |
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-stratum: "level"
-graphos: "writing"
The recording of levels |
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| something in site exactly where it was found and how it was |
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| The Kenyon-Wheeler method |
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-emphasizes recording levels visible in sections
-Sir Mortimer Wheeler and Professor Kathleen Kenyon
-not good if trying to understand architecture |
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| 1m think walls left in place |
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| section of the site walled with baulks |
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| sections within the grid system |
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-shell, ceramic pots
-shard with writing on it (recording a section) |
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| experts in ancient writing |
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| -walk through site & record structures and scene to get overall general picture |
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| do it to get an idea of what is going on |
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| arch. needs to know how to date it |
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| classification according to general type, material, how its made |
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| where culture is first discovered |
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-C.H. Thomsen
-Stone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age
-defined by materials used to make tools |
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dating the past
-xronos: "time"
-logos: "study" |
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does not give absolute date
-defines earlier from later |
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-divided pre-dynastic period into phases
-assigned each artifact type a number
-began at SD 30 |
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| Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie |
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| time before unification of Egypt into pharaonic civilization |
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"time before which", Masada fell to Romans in AD 73
-must date before AD 73, thus AD 73 is TAQ |
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| exact date of item or event |
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| Book ofthe Annals of the Kings of Israel |
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| in Chronicles, lists of Kings |
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| Book of the Annals of the Kings of Judea |
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| in Chronicles, list of Kings |
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Egyptian Historian
-gave us frame work to plug in names of Kings |
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| king a, king b when their reign starts (would reign together) |
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| Carbon 14 dating (aka radiocarbon dating, C14, or 14C) |
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-only used with organic material
-W.F. Libby 1949 |
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| time required for radioactive decay to diminish by half |
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| corrected or calibrated dates |
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extinct language of Mesopotamia
-written in Cuneiform |
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| ancient writing system (on clay and wedge shaped) |
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| arrangement of events in time |
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