ARKY 205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Remote Sensing, Bog Body, Relative Dating
4 Mar 2016
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An enchanted place where the past has not evaporated, is not dead and gone, but continues to reside in the present. Any location that shows evidence of past human activity through an accumulation of artifacts. Many different types and forms of sites. Any object that people have created and used. Made from any material, often stone or ceramic. Features cannot be moved without destroying information the association with the artifact and space. Non-artifactual evidence from the past that has cultural relevance. Includes: plant remains, macrobotanical remains (seeds, leaves, stems), microbotanical remains (pollen, phytoliths, starch grains), animal bone, soils and sediments. Human bones provide information on populations and the individual: sex, age at death, geographic origins, pathology and disease. Two types of abandonment: people pack up their stuff and leave (for various reasons, people cannot get their stuff as they leave, or they are trapped there as well (ex: pompeii)
