ANTHRO 2AC Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Lidar, Processual Archaeology, Geoarchaeology
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Read: ashmore and sharer chap 5, pp 101-123. Data gathering excavation: formation processes - archaeological context; Material remains that are fixed in the sample where an activity took place. Materials left is left where a specific activity took place. Where people clean up activity areas and dump materials in dumps/middens -> no longer found in original location; been moved to another location. Dealing with the situation where the spatial patterns related to manufacture of material remains are due to dumping (discard) behavior. Examples: city dumps, william rathje, michael schiffer; james hill broken. James hill did an excavation on a site called broken k (pueblo site) ceramics. He put a series of extra sample units and looked at different design elements on. He also published about the subsistence of the site (t1 and t2) In t(cid:570) one house rooms there are more animal bones than t(cid:571) house floors; must"ve been more hunting going on than t1.