[CLASSICS 1A03] - Final Exam Guide - Ultimate 61 pages long Study Guide!
29 Nov 2016
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The study of past cultures through the material they produced and lee behind: culture = human behavior and belief system, material culture=products of human behavior not text, material culture is obtained through excavakon. What is an archeological site: anywhere humans lee remains. Features: xed objects that cannot be easily removed from a site. E. g. walls, temples, houses, drains: arkfacts: small objects that can be easily removed. The associakon of arkfacts and features found within a parkcular area or layer, and relakve posikon and relakonship of this area or layer to the ones above it or below it. The context of archeological nds is what allows us to interpret them and to understand their funckons and meaning. Goal of archeology is to reconstruct the past of di erent cultures. To reconstruct the sociekes that ourished in the central and western. If you don"t document then it will be destruckve. The archeological process: by its nature it is a destruckve process.
