CLASSICS 1A03 Final: final exam.docx
16 Dec 2013
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Material culture: objects creator and/or used by a specific cultural group (eg. Cellphone development (large to small) and computers (apple products: eg. Coca-cola bottles, pepsi cans, 7-up can designs: typology allows for: understanding development of products, one further variable: class and economic standing: prestige good vs. mass consumption. Excavation by removal of horizontal layers or strata of soil. Stratum a deposition of soil accumulated over time. Radiocarbon dating: dates anything once living based on known rates of decay of carbon isotopes. Precision is +/- 100 years 9 at best) Tree ring dating (dendrochronology: valid only for wood. Precision is +/- 100 years, but usually less. Thermo-luminescence dating: dates objects that had been exposed to high temperatures (eg. Interval of time since such exposure is measured by emission of photons from crystalline structures. Relative date = point of reference is another artifact or event. Absolute date = a date on a fixed chronological scare (eg.
