ANT101H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Ethnoarchaeology, Ground-Penetrating Radar, Infrared Photography
23 Jan 2017
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The study of material remains in order to describe and explain human behavior (haviland et al. , 2009:11) 4. interpretation of cognitive and symbolic behaviors of the past. More accurate dating (can say this object existed 2,000 years ago) 1. you must recognize things as items used by humans; items that functioned within a cultural system. 2. you must interpret how the items were used or how they functioned in a cultural system. 3. you must integrate each symbol in its proper system and environment. Express a facet of human culture idea of where it was found in relation to the other artifacts. Context is most important factor the relationship between artifacts. Must have an: primary found in original position. Secondary artifact has been moved from it"s original placement: ex: burial - bones. Typology (type) a categorization of artifacts to answer specific questions about a culture. By color, by shape, by the residue in them.
