ANT200H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Nunamiut, Bioarchaeology, Lewis Binford
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Date: stylistic seriation including the shape and decoration. Cultural markers and social identification: style, shape, decoration, etc. Scale of production: manufacturing techniques, degree of standardization. Diet and cooking methods: shape, temper (inclusions), etc. Firing conditions: colour, hardness, reduced oxygen black gray, oxidizing brown, harder ceramic is fired in higher temperatures, hardness may give a rough idea of the firing temperature and conduction (bonfire or kiln) Subset of objects from one site denoting a particular form of activity practiced by one (occupational) group of people. E. g. ceramic, basketry, lithics, subsistence pattern, architecture. A set of sub assemblages representing the sum of all social activities of an ancient community usually on one site. The sum of material remains assumed to reflect the culture of a past society. Need to know each level of interpretative process. Assume that archaeological classifications reflect the structure of ancient cultural practices. We have discussed the framework of archaeology.
