ANTA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Gas Lighting, Grave Goods, Syphilis
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Reconstruct past life ways (hard to interpret) Explain why culture changes happen or not happen. Site (has the remains of previous human activity bones, garbage, many remains = concentrations of evidence). Not just material but could be handprints as well. Cultural deliberate/accidental human activity humans discard/lose things, caching, ritual internment. Natural weathering (sediment accum by wind, water etc. water is strongest in weathering, root growth tends to disperse things, burrowing animals, erosion and gravity) Taphonomy burial laws greek for death/burial processes b/w death of life and discovery of the same body by an arc. How arg become part of fossil record need to know types of loss/info and intensity of loss of info. Burial near river bank water action could sweep it to another place or erod body. In relation to fossil in caves, large accum in bones. Intentional arc survey, ground survey just to walk around, aerial photo, satellite imging found temples in central america in the jungle.
