ANTA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Hominini, Relative Dating, Fluorine
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How: theoretical approaches and environments and diets. Who: burial context and osteological methods of identifying age at death, sex, health, disease, behavior. Archaeological sites: where people lived or carried out activities. Ecofacts: ecological debris remains such as animal bones. Features: nonportable remains graves or walls often read soil changes if you remove features from site it will be destroyed ex. Harps, fire pits, foundations of buildings graves-the cut. 10 by 10 only 2 occupation, entire village. The place of the hearths tell us how close ppl lived together and the number of families. Bottom part where they dump stuff, the top was where they lived. Morphological features: sources of water, clay, iron ore, firewood etc. Find sites where all basic needs are close by. Start with map and draw circle where basic needs are close. Ppl walk in straight line and look for artifacts. When you find a group of artifacts you start digging.
