ANTHRO 2AC Lecture 4: Anthro 2AC Lecture 4
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Berkeley - abiquiu collaborative archaeology (baca) project. Pueblo de abiquiu community library and cultural center digital. Backlogs of excavation data + archival footage. Other schools appreciate services but cannot come back. Need people in east bay school w/ experience with tech, students, etc. Good if you want to do site visits. Sorting things in time: stratigraphy and seriation. Depends on mastery of understanding how things change. Ex) flip phone early 2000s, few and far in between post. Diagnostic assemblage of artifacts characteristic of a specific context at a site. Exams objects coherently depicting a component of the site. Similar components as manifested across a region. Nels nelson at san cristobal, galisteo basin, new mexico. Combined use of stratigraphic excavation with artifact seriation. Long thin curves = slow, gradual change traditional (folk) culture. Short, fat curves = rapid change (fad) popular culture. Deep tradition vs social context/economic context/ideological context. Changes also linked to social, economic, ideological structures.