CLCV 1009 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Experimental Archaeology, Bent Pyramid, Moai

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Classical Civilization
• Course: CLCV 1009
• Professor: Marianne Goodfellow

Document Summary

Tools and tech, trade and transport (chapters 8 & 9) Tools and technology: stone: from small to monumental, wood: the wheel, watercraft and woods, textiles, pottery, glass: faience and roman glass, metals and mines. The raw materials of tools that were used by our ancestors include stone, wood, bone and antler, plant materials, clay, plants and metals. 2 classes of raw materials: 1) raw materials that have been altered from their natural state through heat or chemical reaction (people began to modify the environment through the controlled use of fire), 2) raw material (stone, wood). Raw materials do not last very well, but in certain conditions they may be preserved (waterlogged, charred). Of the raw materials, stone and fired clay are much better in the archaeological record: stone dominates archaeological record, up to pottery making, the earliest stone tools were chipped away to form a sharp edge.