ANT101H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Posthole
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The study of material remains in order to describe and explain human behaviour. Alway creating archaeological evidence: not just actual objects but the human body as well. The positioning, # of females vs males, age, ancestry, diet (from chemical analysis of bones: all have indications of our human behaviour. What activities in our culture is producing in this space right now. Context is importnat: the temporal and spacial relationship between artifacts (ex. Primary: originally deposited (original position: ex. Secondary: redeposited and moved object (object has been moved: ex. Forensics; body murdered in one spot and moved to another: ex. First nations; reburial, rebury their loved ones in a new burial mont. A categorization of artifacts to anger speci c questions about culture. Putting objects into types according to some research question. Items that become associated with a site through natural processes (giving environmental information)
