Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The Work of an Archaeologist
- Archaeology
- the study of the past from material remains
- material remains are mainly artefacts and buildings
- Artefacts
- Objects made by people
- E.g. Spears,coins,pots and rings
- Prehistory
- The history of people before writing was invented
- In Ireland prehistory is 7000BC to AD 400
- Finding sites
- Below Ground
- Chance Discovery
- Stories from History
- Aerial Photography
- Crop Marks
- Underwater Excavation
- Above Ground
- Part or all of remains seen above ground
- Excavation
- The Dig
- Draw Accurate Plan
- Mechanical Diggers for topsoil
- Map out grid of squares
- Dig the ground carefully with trowels
- brushes and sieves
- Keeping records
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- Conservation
- The protections and preservation of ancient
objects so that they don't decay
- History and archaeology
contribute to tourism in Ireland
- Dating
- Radiocarbon Dating
- When an animal or person dies the
carbon-14 decays
- Also called carbon-14 dating
- Stratigraphy
- Oldest layers at the bottom
- Youngest layers at the top
- Coin and Pottery
- Dates or heads stamped on them
- Other items found with them form the same time
- Tree-Ring Dating
- The more rings, the older the tree
- Also called dendrochronology
- Record of tree-ring growth in Queen's University