ARKY 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Buffalo Jump, Paleontology, Cross-Bedding
31 Oct 2018
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Four types of material culture: #1: artifacts anything made or modified by humans. (portable objects, #2: ecofact natural objects that humans have used or affected. (animal bones ate the animal a(cid:374)d left the (cid:271)o(cid:374)es(cid:895) e(cid:454). Pla(cid:374)ts fro(cid:373) dr(cid:455) (cid:272)a(cid:448)es. (cid:894)i(cid:374)tera(cid:272)ted (cid:449)ith hu(cid:373)a(cid:374)s (cid:271)ut the(cid:455) did(cid:374)"t (cid:373)odif(cid:455) them) ex. Fossils themselves are usually studied by palaeontologist or paleoanthropologist, not archaeologist. However, if a fossil is intentionally collected, used, or modified by ancient peoples, it becomes an artifact. Stratigraphy: the study of how different rock or soil formations are laid down in successive layers or strata. The law of strata identified by their contents: the depositional units at particular site can be distinguished from each other by: Complicating factors i: mixing digging operations turn dirt over and leave it in place in the deposit created by the digging, filling a depositional unit is laid down to alter the original level of the ground.
