ANTH 2303 Lecture 23: 9-28-2016 Natural Formation Processes

• School: University of Houston
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 2303
• Professor: Widmer Randolph

Document Summary

These are the actions of nature that impact cultural formation processes: and of course the cultural formation processes create the archaeological context. 4 categories of natural formation processes: nature, effects, duration, scale. Nature: physical gravity => erosion, meteorological effects, heat, waves and wind, sedimentation, chemical . Bacteria they act on organic material. Bioturbation earthworms, tree roots, dogs, ants, gophers: additive preserving the ac, subtractive destroying the ac, fossilization or diagenesis, diagenesis: the chemical replacement of compounds in the artifact, stp standard temperature pressure.