ANT312H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Radiocarbon Dating, Seriation (Archaeology), Emic And Etic
14 Dec 2016
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Exclusions from sampling- related the research question and justified. Dividing objects into classes based on shared properties. Bring order to a set of observations. What is identifiable and what is not- some can be so broken, corroded, no characteristic, and some can have characteristics- if enough research is done it can be identified. Organizing artifacts into manageable units: ceramics, bones, lithics, metals. Study of assemblage variability: assess if assemblage is made up of similarities, categories, compare to other sites. There are better orworse ways to classify relative to your research questions. Archaeologists were relying on statistics to have perfect typology that will be universal. Emic: classes believed to be those that the maker/users would recognize as a distinct type. Etic- classes that have meaning for the classifier. Types related to function, soup bowls, dessert plate, salad/lunch plate. Shape was(cid:374)"t i(cid:373)porta(cid:374)t, (cid:373)ethod used to get the shape.
