ANTA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Law Of Superposition, Radiocarbon Dating, Core Sample
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Hominin: evolutionary group that includes modern humans and our (now- extinct) bipedal relatives. Hominoid: humans (including hominines and apes) Focuses on the human (hominin) past since the development of. Beginning approximately 26 mya (evidence of) culture: earliest stone tools and tool-making debris materials (e. g. wood) But humans were probably making tools before this out of perishable. Artifacts: objects or materials made or modified for use by hominines. Taphonomy: study of how bones and other materials came to be buried in the earth and preserved as fossils, process of discoving the location of archaeological sites, also called site reconnaissance. Test pits : excavation is destructive; it destroys context. Context: the spatial and temporal associations of artifacts and features in an archaeological site": different interpretations possible depending on locations of artifacts. Need to preserve context information in both vertical and horizontal: plumb lines can be used to divide the area into a grid of square dimensions columns.
