ANTH 201 Final: Exam Review

• School: McGill University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 201
• Professor: Maria Starzmann

Document Summary

Trade and exchange are hard things to recognize in the archaeological record(without written records) What we actually find is the movement of objects away from a place of irign. This movement indicates contact and interaction that could include change and exchange. Obects(both artefacts and ecofacts) moved from their place of irign: Source locality of materials the objects is made from(e. g location of clay source from which a pot is made) Contact and interaction: a concept of contact or interaction is more useful than concepts of trade and exchange as it fits closer to what can be identified from the actual archaeologiucal data. Contact also has broader implications as other things can move along with objects e. g language,ideas,people,genes,style- those things we can use to look at trade and exchange to provide better information on trade. To identify when movement has occurred we use characterization and sourcing techniques.