How does post-excavation analysis help archaeologists understand development of a site?
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post excavation analysis is nowadays a fundamental and critical aspect of the interpretation of many archaeological sites. using typological comparison to identify and track cultural changes in artefact distribution gives us an underatanding of trade, commerce, exchange and group status. Artefacts aside, environmental post ex analysis is crucial if one wishes to understand the ecological and thus economic potential of a past society. Data gained from pollen analysis has painted a clear and vivid picture of the spread of natural and cultivated vegetation in Britain since the end of the ice age and is being further developed. dendrochronology is used as a calibration for absolute dating methodologies such as C14 (radiocarbon dating).\nthe study of semi-fossil fauna such as beetles and spiders as well as internal parasites and crop pests gives us information on farming practices such as storage as well as information on the health and well being of past people. \nPost excavation analysis is critical and should not be underestimated for its interpretive value- on the downside it's very expensive and eats up archaeology budgets rapidly if not planned for from the outset. I could go on but there are lots of good books out there- just do an amazon search or try the Council for British Archaeology (CBA) website.\nYours, geoff- a lowly archaeology student.
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your end result. your project should have answered some sorta question the conclusion should be that answer.
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To excavate is to dig up and remove. Excavated is the past-tense of the word.
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Whenever a site is excavated to build something and human remains are found they are bound by law to inform the police and if the remains are considered to be of an archeological/anthrpological nature ie an old grave site, then they call in the state archeologist.  It is illegal for a private individual (outside of a medical teaching facility etc) to own human remains and I would say the same of a human fetus.
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Yea, the first answer is right.  Among many other factors, soils are made up of parent material that has decomposed.  It mostly depends on what kind of rock they came from.
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Without agriculture, the emergence of many of the traits popularly referred to as "civilization" would not have been possible (e.g. cities, advanced technology, social hierarchies, organized warfare, etc.). \nRecently, Ian Hodder, who directed the excavations at Çatalhöyük has suggested that the earliest settled communities, and the Neolithic revolution they represent, actually preceded the development of agriculture. He has been developing the ideas first expressed by Jacques Cauvin, the excavator of the Natufian settlement at Mureybet in northern Syria. Hodder believes that the Neolithic revolution was the result of a revolutionary change in the human psychology, a "revolution of symbols" which led to new beliefs about the world and shared community rituals embodied in corpulent female figurines and the methodical assembly of aurochs horns.
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Archaeology is the study of human material remains, so unfortunately the Garden of Eden would be difficult to locate by those means.\n\nHowever, the Bible states it was located near the Euphrates river (Gen. 2:14) this is now near Iraq.  Most of us were taught in school that this area was known as the Fertile Crescent, where western civilization emerged.  This aspect alone shows that there was a concentration of human occupation in this area during ancient times.  \n\nAlthough, the actual Garden itself is lost, this is probably where it was.
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Take different angles at it.  Look at it from different perspectives, analize it, have class involvment, use some form of technology
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well, the pyramids have drawings and herioglyphics that help tell about egypts history.Also, other artifacts like mummys and stuff like that also hold info on ancient egypt. hope i helped.
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It determines the date in which an artifact was made.
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Network analysis\nIntroduction\nNetwork analysis is the general name given to certain specific techniques which can be used for the planning, management and control of projects. One definition of a project (from the Project Management Institute) is \n\nA project is a temporary endeavour undertaken to create a "unique" product or service\n\nThis definition serves to highlight some essential features of a project\n\nit is temporary - it has a beginning and an end \nit is "unique" in some way \nWith regard to the use of the word unique I personally prefer to use the idea of "non-repetitive" or "non-routine", e.g. building the very first Boeing Jumbo jet was a project - building them now is a repetitive/routine manufacturing process, not a project.\n\nWe can think of many projects in real-life, e.g. building the Channel tunnel, building the London Eye, developing a new drug, etc\n\nTypically all projects can be broken down into: \n\nseparate activities (tasks/jobs) - where each activity has an associated duration or completion time (i.e. the time from the start of the activity to its finish) \nprecedence relationships - which govern the order in which we may perform the activities, e.g. in a project concerned with building a house the activity "erect all four walls" must be finished before the activity "put roof on" can start \nand the problem is to bring all these activities together in a coherent fashion to complete the project. \n\nTwo different techniques for network analysis were developed independently in the late 1950's - these were: \n\nPERT (for Program Evaluation and Review Technique); and \nCPM (for Critical Path Management). \nPERT was developed to aid the US Navy in the planning and control of its Polaris missile program . This was a project to build a strategic weapons system, namely the first submarine launched intercontinental ballistic missile, at the time of the Cold War between the USA and Russia. Military doctrine at that time emphasised 'MAD - mutually assured destruction', namely if the other side struck first then sufficient nuclear weapons would remain to obliterate their homeland. That way peace was preserved. By the late 1950s the USA believed (or more importantly believed that the Russians believed) that American land based missiles and nuclear bombers were vulnerable to a first strike. Hence there was a strategic emphasis on completing the Polaris project as quickly as possible, cost was not an issue. However no one had ever build a submarine launched intercontinental ballistic missile before, so dealing with uncertainty was a key issue. PERT has the ability to cope with uncertain activity completion times (e.g. for a particular activity the most likely completion time is 4 weeks but it could be any time between 3 weeks and 8 weeks). \n\nCPM was developed in the 1950's as a result of a joint effort by the DuPont Company and Remington Rand Univac. As these were commercial companies cost was an issue, unlike the Polaris project mentioned above. In CPM the emphasis is on the trade-off between the cost of the project and its overall completion time (e.g. for certain activities it may be possible to decrease their completion times by spending more money - how does this affect the overall completion time of the project?) \n\nModern commercial software packages tend to blur the distinction between PERT and CPM and include options for uncertain activity completion times and project completion time/project cost trade-off analysis. Note here that many such packages exist for doing network analysis. \n\nThere is no clear terminology in the literature and you will see this area referred to by the phrases: network analysis, PERT, CPM, PERT/CPM, critical path analysis and project planning. \n\nNetwork analysis is a vital technique in PROJECT MANAGEMENT. It enables us to take a systematic quantitative structured approach to the problem of mana
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This is more commonly known as a "post mortem" report and I have provided a few links that can tell you what is in one of these. The idea behind the report is to let future teams know where you had hang-ups and what worked / did not work when doing the project so they can learn from it before the next project.\n\nHope this is what you were looking for. Enjoy!
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Social Anthropology is the study of how people interact with each other in a social setting like neighborhoods, tribes, etc.\n\nAnthropology is needed to figure out what effects construction and other outside things like construction would cause on a group of people. (e.g.:What construction would do for a local farming community).\n\nIt plays a vital role - it asseses the impact that a community of people/animals, etc would have if a certain act is committed like a crime or construction, etc.
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I'm not especially well informed on that subject, but I believe archaeological evidence support it.  Bones, DNA, etc. Pottery shards, all that sort of thing.  It's my understanding they crossed a land bridge that used to exist across the Bering Strait,  then the land bridge was gradually eroded away.
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they have found remains of a huge wooden construction on Mount Arakat and the carbon dating looks about right .\nso it is very possible that it has been found.
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It's the study of fossils.
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because it grew that way, it may have been dug up before it had a Chance to grow to maturity.