ANT200H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Taphonomy, Ukok Plateau, Types Of Volcanic Eruptions
Document Summary
*go over the basic categories and context notes before the tutorials* Arch context can help reconstruct systemic context (culture/behaviour) (this is the reverse order of the true process going backwards) Systemic context leads to site formation process (transformational process) Sfp: study of how the archaeological record is formed how things move and are transformed as they move from systemic context to arch contexts. Taphonomy: the science that seeks to understand the ways in which things become entombed including fossilization (how shit gets buried and saved part of sfp) Three key processes in the systemic context influence the creation of arch sites: Disturbance; process that can cause site formation, still destructive. Discard everything eventual break/wears out and is discarded. Arrow that misses target or pot left from camp. Human behaviours that result in artifacts moving from the arch context back to the systemic context. Museums, abandoned houses with components still in good shape.
