ANTH 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Medical Anthropology, Characters In The Thursday Next Series, Maya Cuisine

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Material remains allow past cultural activities to be described, reconstructed and interpreted. Portable objects made or modified by people known as artifacts. Plant and animal remains also knows as ecofacts. Buildings, pits, or other non-portable elements of the cultural landscape. Archaeology provides a tremendous time depth unavailable to ethnographers. Prehistoric archaeologists examine remains from people without writing, including artifacts millions of years old. Archaeologists also study people, objects from societies who have a written record, such as items from ancient egypt or 21st-century garbage dumps. Bigger than pullman when it was in its prime. Currently >60 km from any other city in mexico. Dissertation questions must be posed: maya diet then and now, maize, low plant density plants spread out. Populations are lower now than they were in older times. Grad student looking at microbotanical evidence to see if maize was the only sustainable source of food. Bronze/iron age 2500 to 500 years ago.

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