ANTA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Indigenous Peoples Of The Americas
Document Summary
Anything modified/used/created by humans from the beginning of time. Even are arch"s that study human garbage, can range from this to our ancestors & their tools: what ppl throw away, can tell you a lot about their lives. History (point in time after we started writing) Prehistory (all of the time before humans started to leave records) Archeology provides understanding of all the times before things were recorded, provides voice for certain stories (the voice of the oppressed: most people were illiterate, so they had no voice (so arch. helps w/ that) Ecofacts (ex: bones, antlers) = things that zoo arch"s/even normal arch"s deal with. Features (non-portable, ex: fire pit, shelters/remains of shelters, midden = garbage) Herculaneum (destroyed pompeii & this area: discovered by amateur arch"s (looting/trying to find any valuable remains)
