ANTH 1006 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Culture Change, Pequot People
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Anth 1006 , lecture 5 , anthropological archaeology. Uses scientific methods to study the past. Motive is to record and interpret ancient cultures. Archaeologists ask the same questions as cultural anthropologists. To narrate the sequence story of the past. When , where, and how did things take place. Explain the past in terms of processes that created it. Any object that was made by humans, or owes its place to human action. Clusters of artifacts and ecofacts representing specific activities. Nature of the chronology and spatial relationship between two objects. The study of strata or geographical layers. Relationship of each artifact/feature in space and time. Unit that underlies another must be older than the overlying unit. Review and compliance of federal, state, and local regulations. Collection information about the location, distribution, . Archaeological; evidence of previously unknown fortified area. Protected the eastern front from narragansett indian attack.
