HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY
ANT 4930 (Section 7786)
Study Guide for Test 2
Scheduled for: Monday, March 23, 2009
Terms, individuals, and concepts
Phase I
Phase II
Phase III
Know two main methods of Surveying
The significance and discovery of The African Burial Ground (lecture and Orser text)
Why Dig “Square” Holes?
Survey
Testing for significance
Full excavations of significant sites
Natural or Cultural levels
Arbitrary levels
Know reasons why ceramics can be invaluable to historical archaeology.
Paste or “fabric-ware”
Surface treatment
delft
Refined Earthenwares
Stoneware
Porcelain
Redware
Faience
Yellowware
Creamware
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Pearlware
Whiteware
Ironstone
Tin enamel glaze
majolica
delft
Creamware
Pearlware
Whiteware
Dendritic
annular
Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie
Chinese Porcelain
Josiah Wedgewood
Mass produced porcelain Buttons
Stanley South
Brunswick Pattern
Carolina Pattern
Frontier Pattern
Mean Ceramic Date formula
Seriation
National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) criteria
Know John Robb, and how he conceived symbols used in anthropology.
Know South's eight artifact groups.
Know Orser's critique of South's pattern analysis.
Know South's own critique of those who used his pattern analysis.
Know what the basic goal of CRM Archaeology is.
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