Methods

Artifact, feature, association

Portable artifact (unmodified; modified—subtractive, additive, altered)

Definition of a Site

Population, sample; sampling; sampling objectives

Judgmental sampling; haphazard/grab sampling (know methods of these plus negatives and positives)

Probabilistic sampling:

Know the methods, pros, and cons of simple random sampling, systematic random sampling, stratified random sampling

Surface reconnaissance, coring, shovel testing, test pits, augering

Discovery probability (site survey):

1) abundance, 2) clustering, 3) obtrusiveness (detectability), 4) visibility (e.g., site size, artifact density,

artifact size, exposure size, exposure frequency), 5) intensity

Non-Invasive Archaeological Methods: soil resistivity, magnetometer; metal detector; ground-penetrating radar, Aerial and Satellite Reconnaissance