ANTH 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Landscape Archaeology, Zooarchaeology, Archaeological Science
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To pursue archaeology, you need time; once you have that you need to know how to look into it. Science is a set of techniques to understand the imperial world. Archaeos (greek): ancient/the study of ancient times. Before documentation, boundary between history and prehistory is variable: historic. People began documenting things, not really any better than prehistoric because people lie a lot, ex: taxes or kings stati(cid:374)g that (cid:862)the(cid:455) are the (cid:271)est(cid:863: classical. Oldest type, attempts to understand european culture: underwater. Own techniques/methods, ex: shipwrecks, ancient water wells where sacrificed people were killed and then disposed of in well (mayans), coastal plains (ice age) Study of animal bones; humans & animal have always worked close together: paleoethnobotamy. Study of plant remains, similar significance to zooarchaeology, tells (cid:455)ou a(cid:271)out people"s surrou(cid:374)di(cid:374)gs: geoarchaeology. Study of materials, similar to chemistry and physics; application of materials to archaeology: landscape archaeology. Study of landscape, helps give a visual of past.
