write short notes on :-
(a) Archaeological source materials
(b) Literary sources
(c) Carbon dating
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Explanation:
A..) Archaeological sources:- are mainly divided into Artifacts, Ecofacts and Literature. Artifacts are those remains at an archaeological site that are formed due to the human intervention. For example: pottery found at a excavation site.
Ecofacts are those remains that are left as a result as result nature. For example: pollen grains and animal remains found at a site. the pollen suggests the environmental conditions of the era to which it belongs. While animal bones help to understand the faunal remains. It also helps to understand what all animal existed, what we hunted for food and what were domesticated by humans.
Literature is the beginning of historical era. History is limited to the literature, but archaeology uses the same literature to pin point the exact place to which the literature refers. For example: A. Cunningham uses the travelogues of Yuan Chwang and Fa Hein to find the Buddhist site Taxilla.
There are various other sources like coins that comes under numismatics, dendrochronology..etc.
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B...) A literary source is any work of fiction or non fiction (preferably the latter) that is written in a standardised language and details the socio-political condition of the time it was written in. Biographies, autobiographies, letters, treatises, pamphlets, epics, journals, diaries, registers, annals, monographs, commentaries and the like all make up literary sources. Literary sources are different from epigraphic sources in the sense that literary sources are elaborate and are written in a standardised language with a grammar. Epigraphic sources are extrapolated from inscriptions and takes identifying the grapheme or symbol and verifying the meaning for the same according to the context.
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C...) Carbon dating, or radiocarbon dating, is a method used to date materials that once exchanged carbon dioxide with the atmosphere. In other words, things that were living. In the late 1940s, an American physical chemist named Willard Libby first developed a method to measure radioactivity of carbon-14, a radioactive isotope. Libby was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry for his work in 1960.
Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere contains a constant amount of carbon-14, and as long as an organism is living, the amount of carbon-14 inside it is the same as the atmosphere. However, once the organism dies, the amount of carbon-14 steadily decreases. By measuring the amount of carbon-14 left in the organism.
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