ANT200H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Iron Age, Archaeological Site
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Prehistoric arch: arch data, research design (ashmore and sharer chap 4) Note: names will not be important in terms of test material. The names will be incorporated into a question: arch data. Empirical data: measurements from faunal, artifact assemblages. Archaeological record: synthesis of empirical data, this is usually thought of chronologically. Anthropolgical arch: the scientific study of material evidence of past human activity, for purposes of anthropological explanation. The three elements: experienced material evidence, unobserved human activity, explanation of human activity. Analytical: variables and values (what changes and how can we measure it) Artifacts-something portable moveable objects whose form has been manipulated by human activity. Something that has use and meaning to a certain group of people. Projectile points (they were stones and the people that used them knew which stone to modify to make these projectile points. ) Form will suggest what these projectiles were used for.
