ANT101H5 Lecture Notes - Radiocarbon Dating, Native American Graves Protection And Repatriation Act, Absolute Dating
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3-4 questions on chapter 1 no questions on paleoanthropology. Archeology the study of material remains in order to describe and explain human behaviour unique because it studies remains paradime is culture. Widening archaeological applications new dating techniques more accurate dating we could only talk in relative terms before the 1960s new archaeology rede ning archaeological aims cultural resource management protection of sites can now absolutely de ne artifacts because of nuclear technology. Artifact any object modi ed by human beings express a facet of human culture context is just as important as the artifact itself context is the spacial and temporal relationship between artifacts primary or secondary secondary= moved to another position. Community how do archaeologists nd a site? survey clues disturbance by human activity- artifacts disturbance by natural causes- river banks vegetation ethnohistorical data amateur archaeologists or farmers. Excavation grid system datum point excavation of squares reference point.
