ANT200H5 Lecture : ANT200 (Sept 29).docx
Document Summary
Ecofacts: faunal: results of using animals, floral: results of using plants, human remains, soils. Floral: fossil pollen, recovered charcoal in many of the excavated sites, looking at microscopic ecofacts, ex. Human remains: burial, neanderthals were the first to do burials, romeo and juliet in neolithic italy, plastered skull, jericho (separated head from body and kept head in a shrine like thing) If bones are preserved, dna testings, other testings such as nutrition. Grand banks: deposition in the bottommost layer, stability, then deposition again of silt from flooding, stability and finally deposition which is now; in stability layers, full of artifacts and ecofacts (maize, corn, corn kernels) Porteous in princess point: cumulated features: built up over time. Material regions (sites: woodland : 1000 bc 1650 ad. Iroquoian: early woodland (1000-400bc) mobile hunter gatherers, middle woodland (400bc-ad500) dispersed sites, mobile hunter gatherers, late woodland 1 (ad500 1000) sites mainly lined up with bodies of water (princess.
