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The archaeological sequence or sequence for short, on a specific archaeological site
Archaeological site

An archaeological site is a place in which evidence of past activity is preserved , and which has been, or may be, investigated using the discipline of archaeology and represents a part of the archaeological record...
 can be defined on two levels of rigour.
  1. Normally it is adequate to equate it to archaeological record
    Archaeological record

    The archaeological record is a term used in archaeology to denote all archaeological evidence, including the physical remains of past human activities which archaeologists seek out and record in an attempt to analyze and reconstruct the past....
    . However, the two terms are not exactly interchangeable. The term 'Archaeological record' is broader in its meaning and can be applied to artifacts
    Artifact (archaeology)

    In archaeology, an artifact or artefact is any object made or modified by a human archaeological culture, and often one later recovered by some archaeological endeavor....
     and other evidence such as Biofact
    Biofact (archaeology)

    In archaeology, a biofact is an object, found at an archaeological site and carrying archaeological significance, but previously unhanded by humans....
    s and Manuport
    Manuport

    In archaeology and anthropology, a manuport is a natural object which has been moved from its original context by human agency but otherwise remains unmodified....
    s as well as to the stratigraphy of a site. Also, the terms Archaeological sequence and Archaeological stratigraphy are closely related and somewhat interchangeable.






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    The archaeological sequence or sequence for short, on a specific archaeological site
    Archaeological site

    An archaeological site is a place in which evidence of past activity is preserved , and which has been, or may be, investigated using the discipline of archaeology and represents a part of the archaeological record...
     can be defined on two levels of rigour.
    1. Normally it is adequate to equate it to archaeological record
      Archaeological record

      The archaeological record is a term used in archaeology to denote all archaeological evidence, including the physical remains of past human activities which archaeologists seek out and record in an attempt to analyze and reconstruct the past....
      . However, the two terms are not exactly interchangeable. The term 'Archaeological record' is broader in its meaning and can be applied to artifacts
      Artifact (archaeology)

      In archaeology, an artifact or artefact is any object made or modified by a human archaeological culture, and often one later recovered by some archaeological endeavor....
       and other evidence such as Biofact
      Biofact (archaeology)

      In archaeology, a biofact is an object, found at an archaeological site and carrying archaeological significance, but previously unhanded by humans....
      s and Manuport
      Manuport

      In archaeology and anthropology, a manuport is a natural object which has been moved from its original context by human agency but otherwise remains unmodified....
      s as well as to the stratigraphy of a site. Also, the terms Archaeological sequence and Archaeological stratigraphy are closely related and somewhat interchangeable. These colloquial uses of the term are normal in conversation but:
    2. The term 'sequence' when narrowly defined, and used in a serious piece of writing, refers to the stratigraphy
      Stratigraphy

      Stratigraphy, a branch of geology, studies rock layers and layering . It is primarily used in the study of sedimentary rock and layered volcanic rocks....
       of a given site or any discrete part of the archaeological record
      Archaeological record

      The archaeological record is a term used in archaeology to denote all archaeological evidence, including the physical remains of past human activities which archaeologists seek out and record in an attempt to analyze and reconstruct the past....
       as revealed by stratification. It is a succession of Archaeological context
      Archaeological context

      In archaeology, not only the context of a discovery is a significant fact, but the formation of the context is as well. An archaeological context is an event in time which has been preserved in the archaeological record....
      s, such that the relationships between them create the sequence chronologically by virtue of their stratigraphic relationships
      Relationship (archaeology)

      An archaeological relationship is the position in space and by implication, in time, of an object or Archaeological context with respect to another....
      . In other words, the events causing the stratigraphic contexts to be deposited happened one after another, in an order which can be determined from study of the several contexts
      Archaeological context

      In archaeology, not only the context of a discovery is a significant fact, but the formation of the context is as well. An archaeological context is an event in time which has been preserved in the archaeological record....
      . It is this sequence of events which is the archaeological sequence.


    See also

    • Archaeological record
      Archaeological record

      The archaeological record is a term used in archaeology to denote all archaeological evidence, including the physical remains of past human activities which archaeologists seek out and record in an attempt to analyze and reconstruct the past....
    • Archaeological field survey
      Archaeological field survey

      Archaeological field survey is the methodological process by which archaeologists collect information about the location, distribution and organisation of past human cultures across a large area ....
    • Archaeological context
      Archaeological context

      In archaeology, not only the context of a discovery is a significant fact, but the formation of the context is as well. An archaeological context is an event in time which has been preserved in the archaeological record....
    • Archaeological plan
      Archaeological plan

      An archaeological plan in an archaeological excavation, is a technical drawing of feature s in the horizontal plane....
    • Archaeological association
      Archaeological association

      Association in archaeology has more than one meaning and is confusing to the layman. Archaeology has been critiqued as a soft science with a somewhat poor standardization of terms....
    • Relationship (archaeology)
      Relationship (archaeology)

      An archaeological relationship is the position in space and by implication, in time, of an object or Archaeological context with respect to another....
    • Cut (archaeology)
      Cut (archaeology)

      In Archaeology and stratification a cut or truncation is a Archaeological context that represents a moment in time when other archaeological deposits were removed for the creation of some Feature such as a ditch or pit....
    • Archaeological section
      Archaeological section

      In archaeology a section is a view in part of the Archaeological record showing it in the vertical plane, as a cross section , and thereby illustrating its profile and stratigraphy....
    • Feature (archaeology)
      Feature (archaeology)

      Feature in archaeology and especially excavation has several different but allied meanings. A feature is a collection of one or more archaeological context representing some human non-portable activity that generally has a vertical direction characteristic to it in relation to site stratification ....
    • Single context recording
      Single context recording

      Single context recording was initially developed by Ed Harris and Patrick Ottaway in 1976, from a suggestion by Lawrence Keene. It was further developed by the Department of Urban Archaeology from where it was then exported, in the mid 1980s by Pete Clarke to the Scottish Urban Archaeological Trust and Nicky Pierce to the York Archaeological Tru...
    • Harris matrix
      Harris matrix

      The Harris matrix or Winchester seriation diagram is a tool used to depict the temporal succession of archaeological contexts and thus the sequence of deposition on a 'dry land' archaeological site....
    • Excavation
      Excavation

      The term archaeological excavation has a double meaning.# Excavation is the best known and most commonly used within the science of archaeology....
    • Dating methodology (archaeology)
      Dating methodology (archaeology)

      Dating material drawn from the archaeological record can made by a direct study of an Artifact or may be deduced by Archaeological association with materials found in the archaeological context the item is drawn from or inferred by its point of discovery in the Sequence relative to datable contexts....
    • Reverse stratigraphy
      Reverse stratigraphy

      Reverse stratigraphy is the result of a process whereby one sediment is unearthed by human or natural actions and moved elsewhere, whereby the latest material will be deposited on the bottom of the new sediment, and progressively earlier material will be deposited higher and higher in the stratigraphy....