ANTH 1210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Archaeological Site, Osteology, Dendrochronology

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 1210
• Professor: David B.Landry

Document Summary

In situ or secondary context: archaeological site and survey, excavation, artifacts, quantification/analysis, creating chronology, spatially discrete place in which evidence for past human activity is found. Low/high visibility: range/type, data/grid/unit/(artifact/feature provenience) (vertical vs horizontal approach)/(in- situ vs secondary corean) Artifacts: people making objects tools, putting on would or putting know. Eco fact: paleo ethnobotany, human osteology, ancient. Biases: many factors influence if an object is preserved in archaeological record, organic remains most vulnerable to destruction, decay of soft tissue due to bacteria of fungi, highly acidic soils, scavenging. Taphonomy : the scientific of burial: helps remain where the site is. Quantification volume of material excavated can be very large, varied: how does one make sense of it all, early focus was on complete, fragmentary bits ignored (bits, collect as much information as possible, huge many assemble. Creating discrete mutually exclusive categories: clean, catalogue, count, faunal analysis 1. Creating a chronology: relative methods, seriation typologies and seriation are closely related concepts.