TAYLOR

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TAYLOR
SPAULDING
FORD
KIDDER
NELSON
BINFORD
DEAGAN
MOORE
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3. Soil Resistivity
HOW DOES IT WORK? Detector is an ohm
meter Measures resistance to transmission of
electrical current between two probes
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4. Ground Penetrating Radar
HOW DOES IT WORK? Detector is radio
receiver Measures pulses of radio waves reflected
back to surface from object below surface
calculates depth based on time elapsed
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1. Photogrammetry
HOW DOES IT WORK? Detector is a camera Measures
variation in visible light reflected from the
earths surface
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Radiocarbon Dating ? TIME DEPENDENT PROCESS
IS RADIOACTIVE DECAY OF C14
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Seriation?
TIME DEPENDENT PROCESS IS STYLISTIC CHANGE
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DENDROCHRONOLOGY ? TIME DEPENDENT PROCESS IS
SEASONAL TREE GROWTH THAT VARIES FROM YEAR TO YEAR
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Ideology
Domestic and Political Arrangements
SUPER- STRUCTURE
CAUSALITY
Production and Reproduction
STRUCTURE
INFRASTRUCTURE
MARVIN HARRISSMODEL OF CULTURE
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Capt. Seth Eastman, watercolor painting, visited
E Dakota, Made first hand observations, records
of way of life in early 19th c. Use to interpret
fragmentary arch record, e.g. post holes making
rectangular Pattern might be lodges.
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• III. Ethical Issues
• A. ownership of artifacts
• B. destruction of sites due to progress
• C. excavation and study of human remains
• Principles of Archaeological Ethics
• http//www.saa.org/aboutSAA/ethics.html

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• New Archaeology scientific, logical,
  anthropological to which Spector adds feminist
  arch Native peoples assert rights
• Culture History what Taylor criticized, busy
  defining types, periods focussed on artifacts
  not people

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• Excavation destroys the site sites are
  nonrenewable resources
• Must keep detailed records
• Leave part of site for future arch with better
  techniques

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• DRAW!

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Present
1984 Spector collaborates with Dakota return
to site for first time
1980 Spector begins work
1970 site has been severely looted
1930s amateur arch at LR
1887 first archaeologist at LR, Theo Lewis
surveys, records
1862 Conflict 38 Dakota hanged, remainder
exiled
1851 Treaty land ceded by Dakota
1802 Faribault opens fur trade post
1800 Dakota live in vicinity for many
generations, possibly since PaleoIndians entered
N America
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• Relative Dating
• Chronometric Dating (Absolute)
• Each technique depends on
• perception and measurement of
• a TIME DEPENDENT PROCESS
• in the natural or cultural world.