CAS AR 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Bog Body, Bog, Data Cluster
22 Mar 2016
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Artifacts: portable objects made or modified by human activity. Knapping > flaking stone off of stone to make tools. *the down side is that these are often the only materials left, so we cannot look at the other materials they might have used that has been destroyed through time. ~early man was a large mammal man cause only the big animal bones were left so we don"t know about the vegetables and plants they ate. There"s a way to test the pottery to see when it was fired. Determine source of clay, clues to trade, long-distance contact. Technical qualities of pottery, firing temp, temper, slip, gaze. Study decoration for info about design styles and change through time and possibly ancient beliefs. Study shape for clues to function, food prep, ~some bones were used for divination purposes (turtle platoon with cracks in bones serving as answers to their questions to ancestors)
