ANTH 1010H Lecture Notes - Experimental Archaeology, Pelvic Inlet, Genetic Drift
3 Sep 2013
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Title page: question chosen, full name, seminar number, student number. Material remains of past human activities and behaviours. Includes: physical remains of people and their tools, houses, foods, any material lost, discarded, abandoned, and stashed by people, the geographic locations where these materials are found. Basic materials contained in the archaeological record: artifacts. Made or used by people to accomplish a specific task. Come in a vast array of types and forms. Can be very simple to very complex: ecofacts. Remains of biological materials that have not been modified. Used by or relating to people: features. Non-portable objects used or constructed by people. Using a known, identifiable phenomenon to understand/identify unknown ones of a similar type. Simple analogy: an artifact that looks similar to a modern item. Difficult to explain behaviours or beliefs using analogy: past=present, know this is not true.
