HIST 2150 Lecture 3: HIST 2150 - Lecture 3
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The remains of what people have thrown away. Throwing things down wells was a way of disposing of belongings in antiquity. Food packaging: materials (crisp packets from tins from styrofoam) Food waste: vegetable and animal matter. Things with writing on it: possibly in need of decipherment. Classification is a way of dividing a huge mass of material to make it easier to study, there are few right or wrong answers; you must look at who your specialists are and divide it in that way. Ancient artefacts are divided up based on material. Fiesta farms flyer and the mail narrows the location down to toronto. Medication shows it"s from the uk, the owner of the trash has a connection to the uk personally or the shop they bought it at has imported it. Yogurt containers have an expiry date on it (gives us a year) Chinese new year flyer (prior to chinese new years)
