ANTH 1006 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Kennewick Man, Backpack, Native American Graves Protection And Repatriation Act
- In order to understand a culture, we want to know their cognition.
○ What are they thinking?
○ Behavior:
§ What did they do?
○ Material Creations:
§ What did they make?
- How do we interpret?
○ One can go through a book bag and create judgements based on what is
inside.
- Forms of data for archeology: Artifacts, Ecofacts, and features!
- Artifacts:
○ Something that's been modified by humans
§ Portable artifacts are anything that you can pick up and take back to the
lab!
§ Non-portable artifacts cannot be picked up and moved (buildings)
- Features:
○ Non-portable
§ Pyramids, things underwater
§ Rock path is meaningless if you take it to the lab - but in context, in real
life, you see the real meaning and that it was a path. If you take it out of the ground, you lose
the symbology behind it
- Ecofacts:
○ Something from nature that has been modifed by us - chicken bone
○ Hellps us to rebuild environment
- SlacK Farm:
○ Did not want to hand over their land to anyone because there was a native
American village
○ Passed it on to a friend.
○ You have to record where everything was
○ Slack farm was completely torn apart by "amatuear archeologists"
- Once you touch it, you ruin it forever!
- don’t excavate if you don’t have to
- Who owns this information?
○ Kennewick Man was a native american man found near columbia river by a
bunch of kids.
§ Police collect bones
○ It was discovered his bones were 9400 years old
