ANTHROP 2PA3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Processual Archaeology, Absolute Dating, Relative Dating
8 Mar 2019
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Obtains its meaning from associations with other symbols. The simplest form of a sign to comprehend as a cultural outsider. Week of jan 15 & 18: question: which of the following does not describe post-processual archaeology. Answer: c: question: a dating tool that states: a stratigraphic layer that is the lowest in a cross section is the oldest and everything on top of that layer is older. Answer: d: question: in an article by kintigh et al discussing the grand challenges of archeology, which of the following is considered a grand challenge, emergence, persistence, finding a site, human-environment interactions, excavation. Explanation: the article by kintight et al states the 5 grand challenges of archeology to be: emergence, communities, and complexity, resilience, persistence, transformation, and collapse, movement, mobility, migration, cognition, behaviour, and identity, human-environment interactions. He saw same - stage cultures as being different due to environmental differences. The development moved from moving from savagery, to barbarism, to civilization.
