ANT101H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Processual Archaeology, Infrared Photography, Proton Magnetometer
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The study of material remains in order to describe and explain human behavior. You must recognize things as times used by humans items that function within a cultural system. You must interest how the items were used or how they functioned in a cultural system. An categorization of artifacts to answer specific questions about a culture. Items that become associated with a site through natural processes(give environmental information) Things that cannot be taken back to the lab for analysis (test question) A spatially distance place that exhibits evidence of human activity. May be occupied over a period of time. A site or ensemble of related sites represents the material remains of a single cultural system called community. Reconstruct human life ways - when and where. Interpretation of cognitive and symbolic behaviours of the past. Walk over an area in regular intervals - record all artifacts. Looking for variants in magnetism - usually finds ceramics or hearths.
