ANT 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Archaeological Site, Archaeological Culture, Spatial Analysis
12 Nov 2016
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Archaeological finds are corded in three dimensions of space: latitude, longitude, altitude. Spatial analysis: analysis of spatial patterning of archaeological materials. 2 basic levels of archaeological space: between sites, within a site. Similar artifacts at sites of same age in same area likely the products of the same culture. Study of spatial relations leads in 2 major directions: description and ordering of finds, studying specific activities within a settlement. Context in space based on associations between artifacts and other nearby evidence of human behavior. Law of stratigraphic association: principle that an artifact is contemporary with the other objects found in the same archaeological level. Human behavior: individual or groups- artifact patterning and associations in the archaeological record. Subassemblage: part of toolkit that reflects a specific activity carried out by a group. Assemblage: a set of sub-assemblages found in the same sites or related sites and dating to the same period.
