ANT101H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Processual Archaeology, Infrared Photography, Inert Gas
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The study of material remains in order to describe and explain human behavior (haviland et al. , 2009:11) 3 types of material remains: environmental, remains of human activity, human remains themselves. 4. interpretation of cognitive and symbolic behaviors of the past. 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. Artifact: any object modified by human beings, express a facet of human culture, context relationship between artifacts and the relationship of an artifact with place and time is important, primary or secondary- taken out of original context. Typology (type) trying to categorize the artifacts a categorization of artifacts to answer specific questions about a culture. Items that become associated with a site through natural processes (give environmental information)
