Fagan Ancient Lives - Ch 3 terms

By dlericksen9, Oct 2010

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cultural landscape	a landscape as defined by the culture that dwells in it
settlement archaeology	the study of changing ancient settlement patterns in the context of their environments
remote sensing	reconnaissance and site survey methods using such devices as aerial photography and satellite imagery to detect subsurface features and archaeological sites
GIS - geographic information system	a system for mapping archaeological and other data in organized form, thereby allowing the data to be manipulated for research purposes
nonintrusive archaeology	arch. field research conducted without excavation and w/o disturbing the arch. record
vertical excavation	excavation undertaken to establish a chronological sequence, normally covering a limited area
test pits	cuttings of limited size sunk into archaeological sites for sampling purposes, to establish stratigraphy or to define the limits of a site
horizontal excavation	excavation of a large horizontal area, designed to uncover large areas of a site, especially houses and settlement layouts
ziggurat	mesopotamian temple mound
relative chronology	time scale developed by the law of superposition or artifact ordering
chronometric dating	dating in calendar years before the present, absolute dating
dendochronology	tree-ring dating
potassium-argon dating	radiometric dating method that establishes the ages of geological strata and early arch. sites from volcanic rocks, used to date prehistory from earliest times up to about 100,000 years ago.

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