ANTH 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Taphonomy, James Ussher, Remote Sensing
12 Feb 2018
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Truth decay - today"s system/illness where we don"t agree on news, or methods of checking science. What types of evidence do archaeologists and paleoanthropologists use to learn about the past. Artifacts - anything used, made or modified by humans. Features - evidence of past activity that isn"t portable. Ecofacts - material that provides information about the environments of the past. These are usually things that were used but not modified by humans in the past. Pollen, very useful because it does degrade rapidly, can determine the time of year. Fossils - hardened remains or impressions of plants and animals that lived in the past. Fossil localities - place where fossils are found. Provenience - the precise location where an artifact or archaeological sample was recovered archaeologically. Sites are known or suspected locations of human activity in the past that contain a record of that activity. Study of how processes form and disturb archaeological sites.
