ANT200H5 Lecture : ANT200 (Sept 13).docx
Document Summary
Archaeological data: material evidence of past human behaviour, the empirical data, archaeological record, anthropological anthropology. Scientific study of material evidence, of human activity, for purposes of anthropological explanation: three elements. Unobserved human activity (if we see it, we wouldn"t need archaeologists) Units of archaeology: empirical: material evidence, analytical: variables and values, inferential: anthropological units. Artifacts, features, ecofacts, with some blurring in between: spatial. Sites, regions: some people have different definitions/explanations. Artifact: any portable object whose form has been modified in any way by human activity, tools, arrowheads, pencils, pottery, forster site located in caledonia: ceramic vessel (pot, funerary mask of tutankhamun. Feature: nonportable material evidence of human activity, stratigraphy: study of layers. Famous picture: cowboy strat: post moulds (architecture were made with polls stuck in the ground); pits for storage or hearths, great pyramids, giza. Southern ontario"s first farmers: riviere au vase region at the same time as princess point.
