AR101 Lecture Notes - Experimental Archaeology, Tropical Climate, Ian Hodder
26 Aug 2013
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Bill rathje"s tucson garbage project studied modern waste patterns to generate links b/t behaviour + the archaeological record: primary findings: what people say they buy, save, use and discard is different than the material remains uncovered. Artifacts are objects made, used and discarded by people: composition of clay. Features: human modified aspects of the site or landscape (eg. post moulds, garbage dump: provides evidence of structures, activities, interaction w/ landscape and environment. Ecofacts: organic and environmental remains (eg. seeds, garbage remains, skeleton: the human skeleton can tell us about a person"s identity in life, their life history, how they died, about their culture. Sites: places where artifacts, features, structures, organic and environmental remains and found. Archaeological context: refers to the place where an artifact is fact; the soil surrounding it, the layer it came from, what else was in the layer with it, and in what site. Primary context: the original place of something.
