CLAS 2P32 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Ethnoarchaeology, Bioturbation, Experimental Archaeology
5 Jul 2016
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Modern experiments to reproduce artifacts, architecture, and/or techniques from the past. The study of living people by archaeologists. Archeological questions are the key to gaining knowledge about the past. It is essential to define the questions to be answered before beginning any research. The package of questions, intended methods research area, and planned analysis is called the research design. The objects and materials that people have made and used. Detailed characteristics of archaeological materials and information. Artifact- objects used, modified, or made by people- portable. Humanly modified components of a site or landscape, such as hearths, postholes, and storage pits- non portable artifacts. Not made by humans, can still very revealing about many aspects of past human activity. Places where artifacts, ecofacts and features are found together. Place and association among the archaeological materials and the situation in which they occur. The material surrounding a find (an artifact, ecofact, or feature) The exact position of a find within the matrix.
