Anthropology 2229F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Forensic Anthropology, Knapping, Ethnoarchaeology

• School: Western University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: Anthropology 2229F/G
• Professor: Peter Timmins

Document Summary

Binford: archaeologists require a science of the archaeological record that is concerned with establishing the nature of relationships between human behaviour and archaeological residues . Strategies include taphonomy, experimental archaeology and ethnoarchaelogy. Use actualistic data to determine how the archaeological record may have been formed and how the observed patterns in the record may be assigned meaning in the present. Would help them understand how the archaeological record may have been born. They could more con dently assign or infer meaning. Closely identi ed with the study of the natural and cultural site formation processes. The formal structure of a middle level proposition involves a correlation linking an archaeologically observable static entity to dynamic behaviour. In his ethnoarchaelogical studies among the nunamiut, winford was trying to identity behavioural generalizations that could be applied to hunter-gatherer archaeological sites found in similar environments around the world. Little shaver an example of middle level.