ARKY 205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Coprolite, Feces, Taphonomy
4 Mar 2016
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It is a collaborative effort to answer these questions. Any site or artifact can reveal information about one or more of these questions. Chapter 2: this chapter is all about archaeological epistemology the archaeological methods we employ. The physical remains produced by past activities that are sought and interpreted by archaeologists to interpret the past. The body of information about the part that survives into the present. The archaeological record does not exist without the definition from the archaeologists: these definitions are subject to change based on what people thing is important. Archaeological sites are the places where people lived and carried out tasks, and where they made, used, discarded, secreted, or abandoned stuff. Sites are the equivalent of the fossils of extinct animals. Sites represent the physical remnants of the hardware left behind by a people and a culture. In other words, sites consist of the material remains of a way of life.
