ANTA01H3 Lecture Notes - Optically Stimulated Luminescence, Carbon Cycle, Hunter-Gatherer
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Biological anthropology is primarily fossils and teeth from south africa. Where- we are looking for sites and fossil localities, we do this through surveying and sampling. What- look for archaeological recovery to maintain spatial information. When- how we know how old things are. How- how do we know what the environment was like. Who- who were the individuals we were finding. Archaeological sites are places where people use to live or use to carry out certain behaviors such as butcher sites or kill sites. We are typically looking for fossils for the individuals themselves, as well as artifacts- objects that people had made. An ecofact is usually some biologically remnant (bone left over from someone"s meal). Features are unique because you cannot pick them up and take them away and study them in a lab, a feature is immovable, such as a grave, evidence of fire use, or foundation of buildings.
