[CLASSICS 1A03] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (34 pages long)

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Classics
• Course: CLASSICS 1A03
• Professor: Michele George

Document Summary

The study of past cultures through the material they produced and left behind. Culture = human behaviour & belief systems: reflects why we do what we do. Human culture produces things: = material culture, manifestations of physical objects that are part of that human culture, not text-based culture, although texts can be useful (especially true of classical. Archaeology: sometimes texts contradict the material objects. Includes small items pots, tools, weapons $ large items architecture, town planning, roads. Recording what it is and where you found it. What do you find: features: fixed objects that cannot be easily removed from a site. Walls, hearths, drains, shrines, kilns, structures (temples, houses, amphitheaters: artifacts: small objects that can be moved. Pottery, coins, glass, metal, bone tools, sculpture. What is context: the association of artifacts & features found within a particular area or layer, & the relative position & relationship of this area or layer to the ones above it & below it.