ARCL 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Ethnohistory, Taphonomy, Hard Tissue
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Archaeological record favours: durable, ubiquitous (easily found everywhere) materials, things that are discarded, buried things, preserved contexts. Things that are most visible in the archaeological record tend to be product of: large scale activities, lots of people/ short time, fewer people/ long time, engineered monumentality, quotidian (recurring daily) monumentality. : xed, an area of activity (architecture: artefacts, eco facts, feature, assemblage : portable, a suite of related things (industry, site, region, culture. : xed, an area of occupation (settlement patterns) : patterns in space/time with an expectation of relatedness (historical: landscape : the physical/social/cultural setting. 1: organic, hard tissues, animal derived ii. plant, soft tissues. : wood/charcoal, seeds, pollen, phytoliths: rarely preserved but only in exceptional conditions. The arrangement of data must be meaningful: space: how people lived, time: traditions. Taphonomy: the forces acting on things after the initial deposition (natural and cultural)