ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Carbon-14, Processual Archaeology, Toxicodendron Radicans

• School: UTSG
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANT100Y1
• Professor: Sherry Fukuzawa

Document Summary

A spatially distinct place that exhibits evidence of human activity: fundamental unit of analysis for an archeologist, primary unit of association for artifacts (if we are all killed right now, we are related in time and space, must be spatially distinct (set up an adequate grid system. ==> a way to maintain the exact positioning of everything in the site. Clues: disturbance by human activity artifacts (i. e. digging up a pool, making a basement and find artifactshuman skull or things, disturbance by natural causes river banks (i. e. erosions in river banks; a valley drops and exposes a lot of past human remains, vegetation (i. e. find human remains near posion ivy human disturbance starts the growth of poison ivy right?, ethnohistorical data (find sites based on recorded data about people of the past???, amateur archaeologists or farmers (amateur archaeologists know the local area very well. i. e. in egypt, a lot of local people knew exactly where the tombs were.