ANTH 003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Moe Williams, Radiocarbon Dating, Subsistence Economy
9 May 2020
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Richness of soil is important in discovering. As soon as human develop fire, we see them. Things get carbonized and preserved in hearths good for radiocarbon dating. Center of activity for cooking, sitting, staying warm. Some of the richest cultural info available. Says a lot about culture and religion. Ethical concerns human remains should be treated with respect. Beheaded burial shows cultural practices, can look at bone chemistry. Hypoplasias shows malnutrition in this human"s life. Settlement patterns contextualizing your site among other sites in the area. Political organization large triangles represent capital cities, and smaller sites with different levels of dependence on capitals. Ethnographic analogy behaviors of modern people in order to interpret things in archaeological record can only take us so far because of globalization. There are different avenues for doing this. We can look at what sort of behavior is being practiced through technology. We can see where raw materials are coming from based on the landscape.
