ANTHROP 2PA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Posthole, Joya De Cerén, Jotunheimen
3 Jan 2017
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Traces of human past, which through our documentation becomes a record or compilation of past lives and past processes. Pattern we recover archaeologically are not always a direct reflection of past human behavior! Can vary due to: sampling one area and not the entirety. Post-depositional context placement of things i. e. landfills, bury something) Study of how the archaeological record is formed. How things move, and are transformed as they move, from systemic contexts into archaeological contexts. Natural (n-transforms) and cultural (c-transforms) site formation processes. - intentional burial (retrieved or left) - disturbance (romans) (pot hunting and looting, things get torn out of context when material remains are taken out of sites) Differential preservation (things that preserve differently) Natural disturbances: rodents and earthworms (bio-turbation), erosion. (interrupts carbon dating techniques) Catastrophic events (weather destruction, volcanic ash joya de cere the pompei of the america, things we perefectly preserved as they were caked in the volcanic ash)
