ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Fracture Mechanics, Emic And Etic, Industrial Arts

• School: UTSG
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANT100Y1
• Professor: Christopher Watts

Document Summary

Bahn: circumstances natural and human agencies. S human agencies, people tend to keep the things they want when they move from site to site. In many cases archaeologists are constructing the past since they have an incomplete picture. We are products of a certain time period, socially and politically. It can colour our interpretations: data processing, cleaning, [conservation] may or may not be necessary; depends on the artifact class, cataloguing itemize everything recovered. To talk more significantly about the past human lifeways: data organization. N classification processes by which we assign items to categories (classes) in a pre- arranged system: rules determine whether an item belongs or does not belong to a class. N typology . ,881. ,94341,791,. 989,908-,80/4n some criterion or criteria. Further classifying the broad sweep of aritifactual material. :9:70 the type is only meaningful to the analyst.