Anthropology 2229F/G Lecture 19: What Was Past Life Like?
18 Jul 2012
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As an analytical device, culture is divided into three main parts: 1. How people articulate with their environment: 2. How people articulate with each other as individuals: 3. How to people relate to their cosmos/world view. Technoenvironmental: often see two components or focus on these points more (easier to see in the record) What people eat, how they exploit their resources, etc. How to people distribute themselves on the landscape. Dependant on environmental factors, don"t just settle anywhere: often referred to as settlement-subsistence studies, can look at where settlements are to connect it how they were making a living, sociological factors as well. How people are related to each other makes a difference in where you chose locations. E. g. chose a different fishing site because another group is already at the other: sources of information: Zooarchaeologists: study remains of living things found at sites. To find out what their diets were like.
