ANT101H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Infrared Photography, Electrical Resistance And Conductance, Proton Magnetometer
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Interpret how items were used or how they functioned in a cultural system. Secondary: when you find an artifact in a place in which it has been moved: typology (type, a categorization of artifacts to answer specific questions about a culture, ecofact. Items that become associated with a site through natural process (give environmental information: feature. Integral to the site: things that cannot be taken back to a lab for analysis, they are part of the earth, moving will alter or destroy them. Site: a distinct area in which all the artifacts within it are associated with each other, characteristics. Fundamental unit of analysis for an archeologist: primary unit of archeology, must be spatially distinct, may be occupied over a period of time, community are a number of sites that seem to be associated. Four goals of archeology: reconstruct the human past through time and space, reconstruct human lifeways, where and when, explain how and why the past occurred.