ANT200H5 Final: ANT200 Final Review.docx
Document Summary
Cultural resource management (crm: the conservation and selective investigation of prehistoric and historic remains; specifically, the development of ways and means, including legislation, to safeguard the past. (ch. 1 &10) Attribute: the minimal characteristic used as a criterion for grouping artifacts into classes; includes stylistic, form, and technological attributes (refer to classification) (ch. 5) Classification: the ordering of phenomenon into groups (classes) based on the sharing of attributes. (ch. 2 & 5) : initiating ethnographic research for archaeological purposes (*see slide notes for background info) ethnographic studies designed to aid archaeological interpretation. For example, descriptions of behavioral processes (especially the ways material enter the archaeological record). Researchers need to reason the appropriateness of the analogs on: (for specific analogy: culturalcontinuity, comparabilityinenvironment, similarity of cultural form, most importantly, the assumptions generated through analogy need to be tested with additional archaeological data. Studies designed to aid archaeological interpretation by attempting to duplicate behavioral process experimentally under carefully controlled conditions.
