ANTH 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Puebloan Peoples, Experimental Archaeology, Ethnoarchaeology
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Lecture 9 chapter 8: taphonomy, experimental archaeology, and. Taphonomy: how natural processes help form the archaeological record. Experimental archaeology: to replicate past technology through experiments (and link the. Ethnoarchaeology: the study of living societies (like mobile eskimos) to help interpret present with past behavior) ancient lifeways. This principle states that processes now modifying the earth"s surface also happened in the geological past. It assumes that past and present processes are identical, so we can make analogies to link them. Logical statements linking the static archaeological record to past living lifeways. A part of pueblo indian culture (am. Found in early pueblo (above ground) sites. Each kiva had a sipapu (small pit) in the floor: Sipapu" is the hopi indian word for place of emergence . It represents the place where the original hopi emerged from the underworld. It is a small symbolic pit on the north side of kiva floors. People communicate with supernaturals via the sipapu.
