A stratigraphic map is shown below with six layers (A-G) and nine artifacts reco

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A stratigraphic map is shown below with six layers (A-G) and nine artifacts recovered within those layers (1-9).

The artifacts are:

Shell necklace (1)

Ceramic shards (2)

Arrowheads (3)

Clay pottery (4)

Fish bones (5)

Stone Scraper (6)

Beads (7)

Hominin skull (8)

Mastodon remains (9)

Question 5. Layer C is a garbage pit. What layers were being formed when it was dug? What artifacts might have belonged to the person who dug it?

Question 6. Which is older: the clay pottery or the stone scraper?

Question 7. Which was deposited more recently? The fish bones or layer F?

Explanation / Answer

lQuestion 5 layer E was formed when the digging for the pit represented by layer C was going on and clay pots were the artifacts belonged to the person who dug that trench.

Question 6 Stone scraper is older as compared to clay pottery because the layer in which stone scraper was found is lying below the layer in which clay pottery was found and hence by using the geology’s principle of superposition we can say that layer containing stone scraper is older and hence stone scraper is older.

Question 7. Fish bone was deposited more recent as compared to the layer F as layer containing fish bone is lying above layer F and hence we can say that fish bone’s layer is younger and thus fish bone is younger than layer F.

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