Exam 3: Survey and Excavation of Sites and Features

Although film is still generally used in air photography in the last few years ___________ have become sufficiently good to be used by airborne archaeologists

Classification of artifacts is usually based on

All known archaeological sites have been discovered by archaeologists during archaeological excavation.

Landscape descriptions in Homer's The Iliad inspired Heinrich Schliemann to search for and successfully find the city of _____,located in modern Turkey

LIDAR provides archaeologists with these advantages over conventional aerial photography:

Before any archaeological fieldwork begins,archaeologists try to make their objectives explicit in the form of a/an

After the process of survey,excavation,recording,mapping,and post-excavation analysis,all these efforts are largely wasted unless

Groups of artifact or building types at a particular time and place are termed

Underwater archaeology is considered highly demanding because

Sending short pulses of electromagnetic waves into the ground and then receiving reflections of these waves to detect underground changes in soil or archaeological features is known as

GIS,which stands for ______________,is a significant new development in archaeological mapping

Although these devices can be of great value to archaeologists,some users of this popular type of magnetism-based remote-sensing device illegally dig holes and destroy archaeological sites without reporting the finds that they make

The major drawback of the Giza Plateau Mapping Project is that none of the data collected over the 15 years has been incorporated into GIS.

Ground reconnaissance survey and aerial reconnaissance are two ways to discover and record site locations.

The Teotihuacán mapping project used a variety of methods to map vast areas of the site.These techniques included

Geophysical methods can be very effective for land-based site identification,but are rarely effective in underwater reconnaissance.

Systematic surface survey tends to be preferred to unsystematic for a number of reasons,primarily because in unsystematic surveys there is a tendency for

Silted-up ditches or filled-in pits,which retain more moisture than such features as stone walls,will therefore display lower

_______ retains its central role in fieldwork because it yields the most reliable evidence for human activities in the past and changes in those activities from period to period

Results of surveys conducted over longer periods of time,covering the area repeatedly,tend to be more reliable because