ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Seahenge, Laetoli, Railways Act 1921
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Without attention to context, archaeology is antiquarianism. The methods we use influence kinds of data we can collect. How we interpret the past determined by evidence and theoretical perspective. The accumulation of artifacts or ecofacts representing a place where people carried out certain activities. Known to scholars during renaissance, but largely forgotten. Early excavations sponsored by king and queen of naples. 1709 price of elboeuf found theatre in herculaneum. Associated with the tomb of qin shi huang. Found by farmers digging for a well in 1974. Testing and excavation of known or suspected archaeological sites. A systematic investigation of a specified area for archaeological remains. Seasonal station to render blubber into oil. Artificial mound of refuse represents thousands of years. Inuit oral histories of ships trapped in ice, starvation, and grave locations. Crops grow differently above soils with cultural features than those without cultural features. Can understand full extent of site or how features are related.
