ANT101H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Ethnoarchaeology, Absolute Time And Space, Issf 10 Meter Air Rifle
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Radiocarbon and potassium argon dating methods - radioactive decay. Lecture 6 &7 relative dating methods - stratigraphy. Chart in the textbook in chapter 8 on quizzzzzzziepoo. The study of material remains in order to describe and explain human behavior (haviland et al. , 2009:11) What makes archaeology unique is the study of material remains. Looks at people at a three dimensional level, idvs that lived at the same time and in the past at the same place or at different places. 60 -70s - nuclear dating methods were introduced to date it to a very specific time. 3. explain how and why the past occurred why did these behaviors occur and why did people switch between behaviors and technologies. 4. interpretation of cognitive and symbolic behaviors of the past. After it was correctly and technologically improved applied archeology came to play. 1. you must recognize things as items used by humans; items that functioned within a cultural system.
