ANP 443 Lecture Notes - Lecture 63: Rodent, Dendrochronology, Upper Paleolithic
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A place where human activity occurred and material remains were deposited. The body of physical (i. e. not written) evidence about the past. It is one of the core concepts in archaeology, the academic discipline concerned with documenting and interpreting the archaeological record; remains of the past that have survived to today. Settlement pattern distribution of sites in a particular time period. Refers to the events that created and affected an archaeological site after its creation. Cultural: c-transforms that might have affected an assemblage at an archaeological site include purposeful and accidental discard of objects or burning and demolition of structures. Natural: n-transforms could include earthquakes or rodent burrowing or vegetation growth or normal decay. The layering of deposits in an archaeological site. Cultural evidence and natural sediments become buried over time. The layer on the bottom is the oldest; the layer on top is the youngest.