History of Archaeology
This former president also excavated mound sites to demonstrate to antiquity of Native Americans.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This law protects access to sacred sites and objects and enshrined the right to believe and exercise traditional spirituality or religion.
What is the American Indian Religious Freedom Act (of 1978)?
An artifact being this means we know its exact provenience.
What is in situ?
Examples of this type of archaeological method are ground penetrating radar, soil resistivity, and magnetometry.
What are non-invasive methods?
This law, posited by Nicolas Steno, helps us determine the order strata are deposited in.
What is the Law of Superposition?
NAGPRA was passed in 1990 to protect this.
What are marked and unmarked Native American graves.
Cryoturbation is a term for this mechanical process that may impact the archaeological record.
What are freeze/thaw cycles?
The size of a sampling unit depends on both environmental/methodological constraints and this.
What is the research question?
This principle allows the correlation of strata across broad areas.
What is the Principle of Biostratigraphy?
This Act of 1974 provided important funding for historical preservation and shifted archaeology to a profession outside academia.
What is the Archaeological and Historic Preservation Act?
This context includes the manufacture, use, loss, discard, etc. of an artifact.
What is behavioral context?
This type of test unit creates a hole larger than that of an auger test, but is smaller than a test excavation unit.
What is a shovel test unit?
This period of archaeological thought focused heavily on questions of how and if founded on analogy.
What is Culture Reconstruction?
This Act created State Historical Preservation Offices (SHPOs).
What is the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966?
The archaeological record is formed by the two types of transformations.
What are C-transforms and N-transforms?
This type of sampling may produce uneven coverage, but it does eliminate or control for bias.
What is simple random sampling?
The Three-Age System was invented by this archaeologist.
This Act, passed in 1979 because of looting, defines archaeological resources as those 100+ years old on federal or Native American lands.
What is the Archaeological Resources Protection Act (ARPA)?
Condition of preservation depends on all of these factors.
What are material, climate, deposition, sediment, and time?
This kind of sampling is most useful for pilot studies.
What is haphazard sampling?