Editing Archaeology (section)

== <span style="color: #FFFFFF;">Analyzing</span> ==
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|+ Surface vs. Excavation
! Method !! Purpose !! Advantage
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| Survey / Lidar || Finding sites || Fast, non-destructive, shows the 'big picture'
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| Test Pit || Checking the 'depth' of a site || Quick way to see if a site is worth digging
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| Open Area Excavation || Seeing a whole building/village || Shows how space was used at one point in time
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| Trench (Wheeler-Box) || Seeing the 'Timeline' || Shows how the site changed over centuries
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'''The Concept of "Processual" vs. "Post-Processual" Archaeology''': 
* '''Processualists''' see archaeology as a hard science (looking for laws of human behavior).
* '''Post-Processualists''' see it as more like history (focusing on the individual's experience and the symbolic meaning of objects). Analyzing this debate helps us understand that "The Past" is always something we construct in the present.
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