ANTA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Absolute Dating, Osteology, C4 Carbon Fixation
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Survey go looking for bones and fossils. Why people did what they did in the past is impossible to know. Archaeological sites: an area where people conducted a certain behaviour such as a village or even like a butchery site. Artifacts: any artifact made by those in our lineage. Ecofact: animal bone remains, plant remains, something that tells us about the environment. Features: things that you cannot pick up and take to the lab eg: the remains of a fire pit or the remains of a barn for this you need to take lots of pictures and notes etc. We know humans need certain things to survive eg: fire and water. Oral traditions people whose ancestors know where they lived etc. such as troy. This man looked at the remains of troy and found that after 6 layers he found the city of troy as told in the story in the iliad.