ANT 101 Lecture 5: 9:8
13 Sep 2017
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N-transforms (natural transforms: depositional processes: depositing debris, (wind, lake basins, rivers, disturbances: mechanical processes, land slides, earthquakes, volcanos. Bioturbation: disturbing through living things (worms, tree roots, rodents, micro-organisms). Taphonomy: a study of how animals and plants become part of the fossil record. Archaeological finds are recorded in 3 dimensions of space. (latitude, longitude, altitude). Spatial analysis: analysis of spatial patterning of archaeological materials. Two basic levels of archaeological space: between sites, within a site. Associations in space: examine both artifacts itself and its association with other artifacts (the context). Similar artifacts at sites of same age in same area likely products of the same culture. Study of spatial relations leads us in two major directions: description and ordering 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.
